§01
What this page covers
Anything published at storgy.com: a poem’s text on a poem page, a study guide, an analysis, an image or worksheet generated by one of our tools, an audio recital, or a social post carrying our name. It covers material we chose to publish and material a visitor generated using our tools — in both cases the file sits on our infrastructure and we can remove it.
It does not cover sites that have copied from us, or pages we merely link to.
§02
Before you send a notice
Two things save everyone time. First, check that the work is actually in copyright where you are — we publish poetry we believe is public domain worldwide, but the rules differ by country and by publication date, and we would rather be corrected than be right. Second, if the problem is an edition rather than a poem — our text matches a specific annotated edition you publish, say — tell us that, because the fix is different and usually faster.
You do not need a lawyer to write to us, and you do not need an account.
§03
What a notice must contain
A notice under 17 U.S.C. §512(c)(3) needs six things. An incomplete notice costs us both a round trip, so here they are in full:
Your signature
Physical or electronic, from you or someone authorised to act for the owner of the exclusive right.
What was infringed
Identify the work. For a single poem, the title and author is enough; for a collection, list the poems or identify the volume.
Where it is on Storgy
The exact URL, or URLs. We cannot act on 'somewhere on your poem pages' — it has to be findable.
How to reach you
An address, telephone number and email address we can reply to.
A statement of good faith
That you believe in good faith the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
A statement of accuracy
That the information is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorised to act for the owner.
§04
Where to send it
Email hello@storgy.com with “Copyright complaint” in the subject line. Storgy is operated by iBuild.io LLC. A complaint sent to that address reaches a person, not a queue, and it is the fastest route we have.
We have not registered a designated agent with the U.S. Copyright Office, so we are not claiming the §512 safe harbour here. That does not change what we do when a notice arrives — §05 is a commitment either way — and we would rather say so plainly than imply a status we do not hold.
§05
What happens next
We acknowledge your notice within 2 working days. Within 5 working days we either remove the material or write back explaining why we think it should stay — usually because the work is public domain in the jurisdictions we serve, in which case we will show our working.
When we remove something, we delete the underlying file, not just the page that points at it. An image or worksheet is deleted from storage as well as from the database, so a URL that was shared before the removal stops resolving. Where the material was generated by an account holder, we tell them what was removed and why.
§06
If we removed your work in error
If something of yours was taken down and you believe that was a mistake — you hold the rights, or the use was licensed, or the material was public domain after all — write to the same address. Tell us what was removed, where it was, and why you believe the removal was wrong, and give us contact details.
We will pass your counter-notice to whoever complained, and if they do not pursue it we will put the material back.
§07
Repeat infringement
Accounts that repeatedly upload work they do not hold rights in are closed. In practice this is rare and we would always rather ask first, but a tool that turns pasted text into a shareable file only stays available if it is not being used to launder other people’s writing.
§08
If you are uploading, not complaining
Everything you paste into a Storgy tool needs to be yours, or public domain, or used with permission. A modern poem is almost certainly still in copyright — the rough rule is the poet’s lifetime plus seventy years, so a poet who died after 1955 is very likely protected, and printing their poem onto a card or a worksheet is not made lawful by it being for a wedding, a funeral or a classroom.
Our terms say the same thing in the language of a contract. This section says it in the language of someone who would rather you did not get a letter.