Copyright Policy

• You own what you post. Posting on Boznaw transfers no ownership to us. Your moral rights under Section 57 of the Copyright Act, 1957 are unaffected.
• We hold a limited licence to host, store, reproduce, technically adapt, publish and display Your Content so that the Services can work. The scope and the four limits on that licence are set out in Section 6.2 of the Terms of Service.
• Other Users hold nothing. Content being publicly visible on Boznaw does not license anyone to reuse it elsewhere.
• Boznaw's own material — the software, interface, design system, name, wordmark and logo — belongs to Placeholder, to be configured before publication: [FULL LEGAL NAME], sole proprietor trading as Boznaw or its licensors.

Please check three things. Doing so takes a few minutes and avoids a complaint that cannot succeed.

1. Do you hold the right? A complaint can be made by the owner of the copyright or an exclusive licensee, or by someone authorised to act for them. Admiring a work is not enough.
2. Is the use actually infringing? Section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957 permits fair dealing — including for criticism, review, reporting current events, research and private study. Quoting a passage with attribution, or posting a short extract with a link to the source, is often lawful.
3. Is copyright the right complaint? If the real objection is impersonation, a trade mark, privacy, or defamation, Section 8 points you at the right route. Copyright complaints that are really something else take longer, not less.

Send a written complaint to the copyright contact below. Rule 75 of the Copyright Rules, 2013 requires it to contain each of the following. A complaint missing any of them cannot be acted on, and we will tell you what is missing.

1. A description of the work said to be infringed, with enough detail to identify it — title, author, date, and where the original can be seen.
2. Details of your ownership or exclusive licence, or of your authority to act for the rights holder.
3. The exact location of the infringing Content on Boznaw — the full URL of every post or comment complained of. A description without URLs cannot be acted on.
4. A statement of why the Content is infringing, including why you say no exception under Section 52 applies.
5. Your full name, postal address, email address and telephone number.
6. An undertaking that you will file an infringement suit in a competent court within 21 days of this complaint, and that you will send us a copy of any order you obtain.
7. A statement that the information in the complaint is true and accurate, made by you or by a person authorised to act for the rights holder.

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   1. We check the complaint is complete

   We verify that it contains everything Rule 75 requires. If it does not, we tell you what is missing rather than acting on an incomplete complaint.

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   2. We remove or disable access within 36 hours

   On a complete and apparently valid complaint, we remove or disable access to the identified Content within 36 hours of receipt.

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   3. We tell the person who posted it

   They are told what was removed, that a copyright complaint caused it, and how to respond. We give them your name and the substance of the complaint, because they cannot answer a complaint they cannot see.

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   4. Access stays suspended for 21 days

   We keep access disabled for 21 days from receipt of the complaint, or until a competent court orders otherwise.

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   5. After 21 days

   If you have not, within those 21 days, produced an order of a competent court restraining the Content, we are entitled under Rule 75 to restore it. If you have produced an order, we comply with the order.

You are not without a remedy, and you are not required to accept the complainant's account of the position.

• Respond to us in writing. Tell us why you say the Content is not infringing — you hold the rights, you have a licence, the use is fair dealing under Section 52, or the complainant has identified the wrong Content. Send it to the copyright contact.
• We will consider your response and pass its substance to the complainant. Where a response shows the complaint was plainly misconceived, we may restore the Content before the 21 days expire.
• Wait out the 21 days. If the complainant does not obtain a court order in that period, we are entitled to restore the Content, and ordinarily will.
• Use the grievance process. If you think we handled the complaint wrongly, the Grievance Redressal route is open, including the appeal to a Grievance Appellate Committee.

An account that repeatedly posts infringing Content faces escalating action: removal, a strike, feature restrictions, suspension, and termination. A Community organised around distributing infringing works may be closed.

A complaint counts against an account only where it was valid and was not successfully answered. A complaint that was withdrawn, abandoned, or resolved in the poster's favour does not count. A complainant who files complaints in bad faith may have further complaints declined.

Where we are directed by a competent court or an authorised government agency to preserve, produce, remove or restore Content, we comply with the direction and record it. Removal under a court order is not subject to the 21-day restoration rule.

Where the law permits us to tell the affected User about such an order, we do.