DMCA Policy

1. Summary

We respect intellectual property rights and respond to clear notices of alleged copyright infringement on hardiktrehan.com and the HT Hub sub-site under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512 (“DMCA”). This policy explains how to file a notice, how to file a counter-notice if your content was wrongly removed, and our repeat-infringer policy.

This policy is part of our Legal Center and is incorporated into our Terms of Service by reference.

2. Designated agent

Our DMCA designated agent for receiving notices of claimed infringement is:

Name

Hardik Trehan, on behalf of Nyza Creations LLC

Email

dmca@hardiktrehan.com (preferred) or legal@hardiktrehan.com

Postal

Nyza Creations LLC, Washington State, USA. (For courier/postal address, email us first.)

A copy of our designation will be filed with the U.S. Copyright Office’s online directory at copyright.gov/dmca-directory/.

3. How to submit a takedown notice

To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), your notice must be a written communication that includes substantially all of the following:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed (or, for multiple works at a single site, a representative list).
3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing, with enough detail (URL, screenshot) to allow us to locate it.
4. Your contact information — name, address, phone, email.
5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the right that is allegedly infringed.

Send the notice to dmca@hardiktrehan.com. We will review and act on properly-formed notices promptly, typically by removing or disabling access to the allegedly infringing material and notifying the user who posted it.

4. How to submit a counter-notice

If your content was removed under a DMCA notice and you believe the removal was wrong (for example, the use was authorized, was fair use, or the notice misidentified the material), you may submit a counter-notice under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g). Your counter-notice must include substantially all of:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material that has been removed and the location at which it appeared before removal.
3. A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief that the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
4. Your name, address, and telephone number; a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the U.S. federal district court for your address (or, if outside the U.S., the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington); and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original notice or that person’s agent.

Send the counter-notice to dmca@hardiktrehan.com. We will forward it to the original notifier. If they do not notify us within 10 to 14 business days that they have filed court action seeking to restrain the activity, we may restore the material.

5. Consider fair use before sending a notice

Section 512(f) makes anyone who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing — including by ignoring an obvious fair-use defense — liable for damages. Before filing a notice, please consider whether the use qualifies as fair use under 17 U.S.C. § 107, such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research. The Lenz v. Universal (2015) decision held that copyright holders must consider fair use before submitting takedown notices.

6. Misrepresentation

Submitting a knowingly false or materially misrepresentative DMCA notice or counter-notice is a federal offense under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f) and may also expose you to civil liability for attorneys’ fees and damages.

7. Repeat-infringer policy

In line with 17 U.S.C. § 512(i), it is our policy to terminate the accounts of users who are repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances. Multiple unrebutted DMCA takedown notices against a single account will result in account termination and forfeiture of any paid credits.

8. Third-party platforms

The Site links out to and embeds content hosted on third-party platforms (YouTube, Spotify, Instagram, Apple Music, SoundCloud, etc.). To take down content hosted by those platforms, file a notice with the platform directly — we cannot remove content hosted by them. We will of course honor a properly-formed notice for content we host ourselves.

9. Contact

DMCA notices and counter-notices: dmca@hardiktrehan.com or legal@hardiktrehan.com.

For non-DMCA copyright questions, licensing inquiries, and permission requests, email contact@hardiktrehan.com.