Copyright & DMCA

Respecting rights

Do not upload or generate content that infringes someone else’s intellectual property. Owning a prompt is not the same as owning the thing it describes, and a model’s ability to imitate something is not permission to publish the imitation.

Style is not generally ownable; a specific work, character, logo or performance usually is. If your output would be recognised as a particular protected thing rather than as work in a similar manner, treat it as a rights problem before you publish it.

Before you file

If the material is on Aiora Labs and you can tell it is a straightforward mistake, saying so to the person who posted it often resolves it faster than a formal notice. That is a suggestion, not a requirement, and it is not a step we will hold against you for skipping.

File the notice if you would rather have it on the record, if the material is commercial, or if an approach has already failed. All three are perfectly good reasons.

Filing a notice

Send a notice through support with “Legal” selected. A notice we can act on contains all of the following. A notice missing the identification or the statements cannot be actioned, and we will come back to you for them rather than quietly filing it.

• Identify the copyrighted work you say has been infringed
• Identify the specific material and exactly where on Aiora Labs it appears
• Provide contact details we can reach you at
• State that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised by the rights holder, its agent, or the law
• State that the information in your notice is accurate, and that you are the rights holder or authorised to act on their behalf

What happens next

We review the notice. Where it is valid we remove or restrict the material, and we notify the person who posted it, including a copy of the notice, because they cannot answer a complaint they have not seen.

Where a notice is incomplete, or where what it describes is plainly not infringement, we will say so rather than remove something on a bad claim. Removing lawful work on request is its own kind of harm.

Counter-notice

If your content was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you may file a counter-notice through support. Say which material was removed, where it was, why you believe it was lawful, and give contact details.

We will pass a valid counter-notice to whoever filed the original complaint and may restore the material. We are not the venue that decides who is right about copyright. We are the venue that keeps the process fair and on the record.

Repeat infringers

Accounts with repeated valid claims against them may be restricted or terminated. Repetition is the signal we act on hardest, because one mistake is a mistake and a pattern is a practice.

Valid claims count. Claims we rejected, and claims resolved by a successful counter-notice, do not.

Trademarks and other rights

Trademark, passing off, personality and likeness complaints are not copyright complaints, but they go to the same place. Send them through support with “Legal” selected and describe the right you hold.

Complaints about a real person’s likeness are also covered by the Acceptable Use Policy, which prohibits depicting a real, identifiable person without consent or another lawful basis. Those are usually acted on faster than a rights dispute because the harm is more immediate.

Misusing this process

Filing a knowingly false notice to remove work you do not own, or to inconvenience a competitor, is abuse of this process. It can carry legal consequences for the person filing it, and it will cost you your account here.

The same applies to a counter-notice filed in bad faith.

What this policy does not decide

Whether a generated output infringes a given work is a legal question that depends on the work, the output and where you are. Nothing here is legal advice and nothing here settles that question for you.

Ownership of outputs, and the restrictions the underlying model providers place on them, are covered in the AI & Content Policy.