Copyright and DMCA Policy

1. Respect for rights

Velo lets users upload images, capture authorized websites, and publish review releases. Meridian Studios respects intellectual-property rights and expects Velo users to do the same. This Policy explains how to report material that you believe infringes copyright and how an affected user may respond. It does not provide legal advice.

Copyright communications may be sent to legal@meridianproject.studio. Email is the fastest operational channel. Meridian does not represent that an incomplete message or a message sent elsewhere satisfies statutory notice requirements.

2. Copyright infringement notice

A notice should be in writing and include all of the following:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act for the owner.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed, or a representative list if one notice covers multiple works.
3. Identification of the material claimed to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient for us to locate it, such as the Velo review URL, project or release reference, source route, screenshot, and target description.
4. Your name and information reasonably sufficient to contact you, including an email address and, where applicable, a mailing address and telephone number.
5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner.

Send the complete notice to legal@meridianproject.studio. You may also use Velo's copyright-report form to begin a report, but we may request the remaining statutory information before treating it as a complete notice.

3. Our response

We may validate the notice, request clarification, preserve relevant records, remove or disable access to identified material, revoke a review link, and notify the user who provided the material. We may forward the notice, including the complainant's contact information, to that user or their authorized representative as needed to administer the process. We may reject notices that lack required information, identify no protectable work, do not locate the material, or appear fraudulent or abusive.

Removal is not a determination that infringement occurred. We may consider fair use, license, public-domain status, misidentification, and other applicable limitations, but parties remain responsible for obtaining their own legal advice.

4. Counter-notice

If your material was removed or disabled because of a copyright notice and you believe that happened through mistake or misidentification, you may send a written counter-notice containing:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material removed or disabled and the location 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 because of mistake or misidentification.
4. Your name, address, and telephone number, plus a statement consenting to the jurisdiction of the appropriate United States federal district court—or, if outside the United States, a district where Meridian may be found—and accepting service of process from the person who submitted the original notice or that person's agent.

Send the counter-notice to legal@meridianproject.studio. If it is complete and legally appropriate, we may forward it to the original complainant and restore access after the period required by applicable law unless the complainant informs us that it filed an action seeking a court order.

5. Repeat infringement

Meridian may suspend or terminate users who repeatedly infringe copyright in appropriate circumstances. We consider valid notices, counter-notices, court orders, the user's response, the nature of the material, and evidence of repeated conduct. We may also act after a single serious violation. We do not count a facially invalid or successfully resolved notice as conclusive proof of infringement.

6. Misrepresentation and abuse

Knowingly misrepresenting that material infringes or was removed by mistake may create legal liability. Do not use this process to silence criticism, obtain another person's private information, retaliate against a reviewer, or make claims you are not authorized to bring. We may preserve and disclose records relating to abusive notices where legally permitted.

7. Other intellectual-property concerns

For trademark, privacy, publicity, confidentiality, or other rights concerns, email legal@meridianproject.studio and identify the right, material, location, requested action, and your authority. Those reports are not DMCA notices and may follow a different process.

8. Contact

Copyright notices, counter-notices, and related questions: legal@meridianproject.studio

Product and account support: support@meridianproject.studio