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DMCA Notice & Takedown.

How to send a copyright takedown notice and how to send a counter-notice. Designated agent contact information.

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This procedure applies to content hosted by empowered.guru, LLC (this website, our blog, our chat, our managed applications, and our infrastructure for clients with a SoW). It does not apply to content hosted by clients on their own infrastructure; the client is the service provider and should designate their own agent.

Last updated: August 16, 2026

1. Designated agent

empowered.guru, LLC's designated agent under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c) is:

empowered.guru, LLC
Attn: DMCA Agent
California, U.S.A.
Email: dmca@empowered.guru

(Our designated-agent registration with the U.S. Copyright Office can be
looked up at https://www.copyright.gov/dmca-agent/. We will provide the
registration number on request.)

2. What a valid notice must include

A notification of claimed infringement under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) must include the following six elements:

  1. A physical or electronic signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright's exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
  2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or a representative list if multiple works are covered by a single notification.
  3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, with information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material (URL, request ID, timestamp).
  4. Contact information: address, telephone number, and, if available, email address, for the complaining party.
  5. A statement that the complaining party has a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
  6. A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

3. How to submit

Send the complete notice to our designated agent at the email or postal address above. We will acknowledge within 1 business day and act on the notice within 5 business days of receipt. Where the notice is incomplete, we will tell you what is missing; we may not act on an incomplete notice.

4. Counter-notice

If we remove or disable access to material in response to a notice, we will forward the counter-notice provisions of 17 U.S.C. § 512(g) to the affected user. A counter-notice must include:

  1. A physical or electronic signature of the user.
  2. Identification of the material that has been removed or disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or disabled.
  3. A statement under penalty of perjury that the user has a good-faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification.
  4. The user's name, address, telephone number, and a statement that the user consents to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district in which the address is located (or, if outside the U.S., any judicial district in which the service provider may be found), and that the user will accept service of process from the person who provided the notification.

On receipt of a valid counter-notice, we will forward it to the complaining party and restore the material in 10-14 business days unless the complaining party notifies us that it has filed a copyright action seeking to restrain the infringing activity.

5. Misuse and consequences

Knowingly materially misrepresenting that material is infringing (or that it was removed by mistake) is a violation of 17 U.S.C. § 512(f) and may subject the misrepresenting party to damages and attorneys' fees. We cooperate with subpoenas and with the U.S. Copyright Office.

6. Repeat infringers

It is our policy to terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who are repeat infringers. We apply this policy to users of our hosted services in the same way that § 512 contemplates, with reference to activity on our systems and to the standards of the relevant case law.

7. International equivalents

If you are outside the United States, you may also have remedies under the copyright law of your jurisdiction (for example, the EU Copyright Directive, the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, Canada's Copyright Act, Australia's Copyright Act 1968). The U.S. DMCA procedure is our standard intake; we will cooperate with valid notices issued under equivalent foreign law.

8. Contact

Designated agent: dmca@empowered.guru.

See also our Trademark Notice and Acceptable Use Policy.