Copyright & DMCA Policy

Our designated agent

Send notices and counter-notices to our designated copyright agent: Michael Pavlovskyi, Bace Agency LLC, 115 Windwood Ct, Buffalo Grove, Illinois 60089, USA, email michael.pavlovskyi@builtwritten.com, with "DMCA notice" in the subject line.

What a notice must include

• Your physical or electronic signature, as the copyright owner or someone authorised to act for them.
• Identification of the copyrighted work you say is infringed.
• The link to the book page, sample or book on Built&Written that you say infringes it, precise enough for us to find it.
• Your name, postal address, telephone number and email address.
• A statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent or the law.
• A statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act for them.

What we do with a valid notice

We promptly remove or disable the listing and tell the author, with a copy of the notice. Where a notice is valid, we may also withdraw readers' access to the infringing book.

Counter-notices

If your listing was removed and you believe that was a mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to our designated agent. Authors can also send it from their account, at https://app.builtwritten.com/dashboard/author/dmca, where every notice about their books is listed. It must include:

• Your physical or electronic signature.
• Identification of the material that was removed or disabled, and the link where it appeared before.
• A statement under penalty of perjury that you believe in good faith the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification.
• Your name, address and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the US Federal District Court for the judicial district of your address (or, if your address is outside the United States, any judicial district in which Built&Written may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice or their agent.

Restoring a listing

We send a copy of a valid counter-notice to the person who sent the original notice and tell them we will restore the listing in 10 business days. Unless they tell us within that time that they have filed a court action to stop the infringement, we restore the listing no less than 10 and no more than 14 business days after we received the counter-notice.

False notices

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), anyone who knowingly misrepresents that material is infringing, or that it was removed by mistake, may be liable for damages, including costs and legal fees.

Repeat infringers

We suspend or close the author profiles of authors who repeatedly infringe others' rights. An author is a repeat infringer after three valid notices against their books within 12 months.