Last updated 21 August 2026.
Draft. This describes how complaints are actually handled today. It hasn't been reviewed by a lawyer and it isn't legal advice. It follows the shape of the US DMCA, because that is the process most people sending one will expect.
Tell us and we'll look at it. You don't need an account, and you don't need a lawyer to write to us.
So we can act without writing back for basics, include:
Send it to [email protected].
We read it, and if the claim looks right on its face we take the work down or hide the part complained about — usually before we've heard the author's side. Leaving it up while we sort it out isn't the safer option.
We tell the author what came down and why, and pass on what you sent minus your contact details unless you ask us to include them. If something from the list above is missing, we'll write back and ask rather than guess.
Write and say so. It helps to include which story, why the material is yours or why you're allowed to use it, an address we can reply to, and a statement that you believe in good faith it was removed by mistake.
We pass that to whoever complained. If they don't take it further within a couple of weeks, the work goes back up. A story taken down this way is unpublished and kept rather than deleted — deleting a story deletes every conversation inside it, and those belong to the people playing them, not to this argument.
Accounts that repeatedly post work belonging to other people get closed. There is no fixed number — a first mistake and a pattern are different things, and we'd rather look at what happened than count to a threshold.
A takedown is a legal statement. Sending one about work you don't own, or to get at somebody you're annoyed with, can make you liable for what it costs the person on the other end. If what's actually wrong is that a story breaks the rules, report it instead — that's the right route, and a faster one.
The terms cover what happens to your work and your account generally, including that you keep ownership of everything you write here.
