Filing a notice
Send a written notice through the contact form with the topic 'Copyright notice', or by post to the address on the contact page. Include: the URL of the design page, identification of the original work, your contact details, a statement of good-faith belief, and a statement under penalty of perjury that you are the rights holder or authorised to act for them.
Physical or electronic signature is required. Incomplete notices are logged and we will tell you what is missing rather than ignoring them.
What happens next
The design is unpublished immediately, its files return 410 Gone, and the contributor is notified with a copy of your notice. Cached pages and the sitemap are purged the same day.
The contributor may file a counter-notice. If they do, we forward it to you and restore the file in ten to fourteen business days unless you confirm that you have filed a court action.
Repeat infringement
Contributors with three upheld notices lose upload access permanently. We also proactively reject submissions that are obvious re-traces of commercial clip art, trademarked logos or licensed character artwork.
A note on useful articles
Copyright protects the drawing, not the utilitarian shape of a bracket or a finger joint. We will not remove a file merely because it performs the same function as another design — the notice must identify copied expressive geometry.
Frequently asked questions
How fast do you act?
Valid notices are acknowledged within one business day and the file is disabled within two. Counter-notices are processed on the statutory ten to fourteen business day timeline.