DMCA Policy

Designated agent for copyright notices

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(2) we publish a designated agent to receive notifications of claimed infringement. Send copyright notices to:

Service provider	Outline Technologies LLC (operating YTCut, ytcut.org)
Designated agent	Copyright Agent, Outline Technologies LLC
Address	30 N Gould St, Ste R, Sheridan, WY 82801, United States
Email	[email protected]

Email is strongly preferred and is materially faster. Use the subject line DMCA Takedown Notice so your message is routed correctly rather than landing in general support. Postal notices are accepted at the address above but will always be slower to action.

This address is for copyright notices only. Support questions, refund requests and general enquiries sent here will be redirected and will take longer to answer. Use the contact page for those.

What YTCut is, and why that matters to a notice

Being precise about this saves everyone time, because it determines who can actually remove the content you are concerned about.

YTCut does not host, index, publish or distribute video. There is no library, no search, no browse page and no public catalogue. When a user supplies a YouTube URL, our servers fetch that video's stream from YouTube, cut it to the timestamps the user chose, and return the resulting file to that one user over a private link. Nothing is made publicly accessible at any point.

Processed clips are held in a temporary server-side cache for up to seven days so that repeating the same cut does not repeat the work, and are then deleted automatically. Those files are reachable only by the user who created them, through a signed link that expires. We do not stream, embed or serve them to anyone else.

The practical consequence: if your concern is that a video should not be on YouTube at all, YouTube is the only party who can fix that, and their copyright complaint process is the effective route. Once YouTube removes a video it becomes unreachable through every tool that relies on YouTube's public streams, including this one. We cannot make a video that YouTube has removed processable, and we cannot make a private or unlisted video accessible.

That said, we do hold cached copies and we do process the stream, so a notice directed at us is a real notice and we act on it. What follows is how.

What a valid notice must contain

To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)(A), your notice must include all six of the following. We are not being pedantic; a notice missing these elements does not carry the legal effect that obliges us to act, and we would rather tell you now than send your notice back later.

1. Your signature. Physical or electronic, from the copyright owner or a person authorised to act for them. Your full legal name typed at the end of an email is a valid electronic signature.
2. Identification of the work. The copyrighted work you say has been infringed. Where one notice covers many works, a representative list is sufficient.
3. Identification of the material. The material you say is infringing and want removed, with enough detail for us to find it. For YTCut this means the YouTube video URL or its eleven-character video ID. A channel name, a song title or a screenshot is not enough for us to act on, because our block operates on a specific video.
4. Your contact details. Name, mailing address, telephone number and email address.
5. A good faith statement. That you believe in good faith the use complained of is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement of accuracy, under penalty of perjury. That the information is accurate and that you are the owner or are authorised to act on the owner's behalf.

Please note that under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), knowingly and materially misrepresenting that material is infringing can make you liable for damages, including costs and legal fees. We mention this not as a deterrent to legitimate rightsholders but because automated notice systems do occasionally sweep in material their operators never reviewed.

What happens when a notice arrives

We acknowledge valid notices within two business days and act on them within five business days, usually the same day. Concretely, we:

1. Check the notice against the six elements above, and come back to you if something is missing.
2. Delete any cached clip associated with the reported video from our servers.
3. Add the video to our takedown blocklist. From that point the video cannot be loaded, previewed, cut, thumbnailed or downloaded through YTCut by anyone, on any plan. Every request for it is refused with an HTTP 451 and an explanation. The blocklist is stored outside the application code specifically so that it survives software updates and restarts.
4. Record the action, with the date, the video, who filed and their reference, in an audit log we retain.
5. Confirm to you in writing that we have acted.

We block the specific video that was reported. We do not block entire channels, artists or catalogues on the basis of a notice about one video, because that is not the remedy the statute provides and it would remove material nobody complained about.

For rightsholders and anti-piracy agencies filing in volume

If you represent a rightsholder and need to submit many notices, write to [email protected] and say so in the first message. We will give you a direct route rather than making you go through general support each time.

We accept batched notices covering multiple videos in a single message, provided each is identified by URL or video ID and the statutory statements cover the whole batch. A plain list of URLs is the format we can action fastest. We do not require a particular form, portal or template, and we will not ask you to re-key a notice you have already prepared for another provider.

Counter-notification

If your material was blocked and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you may send a counter-notification under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3). It must contain:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material that was removed or disabled, and where it appeared before removal.
3. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good faith belief the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification.
4. Your name, address and telephone number, together with a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the district in which your address is located, or if your address is outside the United States, any judicial district in which Outline Technologies LLC may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice.

Send counter-notifications to [email protected]. We forward a valid counter-notification to whoever filed the original notice. If they do not tell us within ten business days that they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the activity, we will lift the block. The statute allows restoration between ten and fourteen business days after receipt, and we act at the earliest point in that window.

Repeat infringer policy

As required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(i), we terminate the accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances.

In practice: a valid notice attributable to a specific account is recorded against it. An account that accumulates three such records has its access terminated, and we do not offer a new account to the same person afterwards. Serious cases, such as deliberate and repeated commercial infringement, are terminated without waiting for a third.

Records associated with a notice that is successfully counter-noticed, or that we determine was filed in error, are removed and do not count. We look at each case rather than counting mechanically, because automated notice systems make mistakes and a person should not lose an account over one.

Trademark, privacy and other complaints

This page is about copyright. If your concern is a trademark, a privacy or publicity right, defamation, or a video that features you without consent, write to [email protected] describing the issue and the specific video. The DMCA process above does not apply to those claims, but we act on them.

Contact

Copyright notices and counter-notifications: [email protected]

Other legal enquiries: [email protected]

Postal: Copyright Agent, Outline Technologies LLC, 30 N Gould St, Ste R, Sheridan, WY 82801, United States