Copyright / DMCA Policy

1. Scope of this policy

This DMCA / Copyright Policy applies to:

• The memrith.com website and any subdomains we operate.
• The Memrith desktop application's update-server endpoints (e.g., release manifests served from memrith.com/releases/).
• The license-entitlement and other API endpoints under memrith.com/api/.
• The downloadable application installers, hosted on a public GitHub release mirror (github.com/cadendbartley/memrith-releases). Takedown requests concerning files hosted there may also be directed to GitHub's own designated DMCA agent.
• Any other Memrith-operated channel where third-party content may appear (e.g., future support forum, comments, or contributed content).

The Memrith desktop application processes content locally on your own device using API keys you supply. Memrith LLC does not host, store, or transmit your journal entries, uploads, or other content on its servers — that material lives only on the device where you run the app and on the AI provider you connect to (Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, or others). DMCA notices about content that exists only on a user's own machine should be directed to that user, not to Memrith.

2. Sending a DMCA takedown notice

To submit a Notice of Infringement under DMCA § 512(c)(3), send a written communication to our Designated Agent (see Section 3) that includes all of the following elements. Notices missing any required element may be rejected.

1. A physical or electronic signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed (or, if multiple works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works).
3. Identification of the material claimed to be infringing or the subject of infringing activity that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, with information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material — typically a direct URL.
4. Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you as the complaining party — an address, telephone number, and (if available) an email address.
5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

3. Designated Agent contact

Our Designated Agent for the receipt of DMCA notices is:

DMCA Agent — Memrith LLC
Caden Bartley, Member
Memrith LLC
752 Bench Ln
Mount Juliet, TN 37122
U.S.A.
Email: legal@memrith.com
Subject line: DMCA Notice

Email is preferred because it is fastest. For postal notices, allow additional time for delivery; the legal effect of a notice begins when we actually receive it.

4. What happens after we receive a notice

When we receive a notice we reasonably believe to comply with § 512(c)(3):

1. We will expeditiously remove or disable access to the allegedly infringing material from any service we control.
2. We will make a good-faith effort to notify the affected party (the user or contributor whose material was removed) and provide them with a copy of the notice, redacted as appropriate to protect the complainant's contact details that are not needed for response.
3. We will inform that party of their right to submit a counter-notice (see Section 5).

If a notice does not substantially comply with § 512(c)(3) — for example, if it is missing a required element from Section 2 — we may respond to ask the complainant to cure the defect rather than acting on the notice as filed. Acting on a defective notice could expose us to § 512(f) liability and is not in either side's interest.

5. Counter-notice procedure

If you are the user or contributor whose material was removed in response to a DMCA notice, and you believe the removal was a mistake or misidentification, you may submit a Counter-Notification under § 512(g)(3) by sending us a written communication that includes all of the following:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the subscriber.
2. Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled, and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access disabled.
3. A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material.
4. Your name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the U.S. District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or, if your address is outside the United States, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee), and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original notification or an agent of such person.

Send counter-notices to the same Designated Agent address listed in Section 3 with subject line "DMCA Counter-Notice".

What happens next. If we receive a counter-notice that substantially complies with § 512(g)(3), we will:

1. Promptly provide the original complainant with a copy of the counter-notice.
2. Inform them that we will restore the removed material in 10 to 14 business days unless they notify us, before that period elapses, that they have filed a lawsuit seeking a court order to restrain the alleged infringer from engaging in the infringing activity.
3. Restore the material as described above unless we receive notice of a court action within the deadline.

6. Repeat-infringer policy

Consistent with § 512(i)(1)(A), Memrith LLC will, in appropriate circumstances, terminate the accounts of users or licensees who are determined to be repeat infringers. "Repeat infringer" includes, at minimum, any user or licensee who has been the subject of two or more uncontested DMCA notices that we reasonably believe to be valid, or who has otherwise been found by a court or comparable adjudicator to have engaged in repeated copyright infringement using a Memrith account, license, or service.

Termination may include any or all of the following, as we judge appropriate to the circumstances:

• Revocation of the Memrith desktop-app license key and refusal to issue future signed entitlements to that license.
• Removal of the user's posts or contributions from any Memrith-operated forum or content channel.
• A permanent ban from purchasing or activating new Memrith licenses, enforced by the email address(es), payment instrument(s), and other identifiers reasonably available to us.

We may also terminate accounts in appropriate circumstances before a second uncontested notice — for example, where the conduct is egregious or where a single instance has resulted in a court order against the user.

7. Trademark and other IP complaints

The DMCA covers copyright. If your complaint is about trademark, right of publicity, defamation, or another non-copyright legal basis, send it to legal@memrith.com with the subject line "IP Complaint" instead. Include:

• A description of the specific right you are asserting (e.g., your registered or common-law trademark; the jurisdiction; your basis for ownership).
• The URL or other location of the allegedly infringing or unlawful material on a Memrith-operated service.
• Your contact information.
• A statement of the harm or violation, in enough detail that we can evaluate the claim.

Trademark complaints are evaluated under the relevant trademark and unfair-competition laws (not DMCA § 512), so the safe-harbor procedures above do not apply. We respond to substantiated trademark complaints in good faith but reserve the right to seek additional information or refuse to act on complaints that appear meritless or anti-competitive.

8. Memrith's own copyright + trademark

Memrith's brand, logos, marketing copy, user-interface designs, website content, and proprietary code are owned by Memrith LLC. Some components of the desktop application are released under open-source licenses (the full third-party attributions are available on request at legal@memrith.com) — those components remain governed by their respective licenses and are not covered by the all-rights-reserved notice that follows.

Subject to the open-source licenses noted above:

• © 2026 Memrith LLC. All rights reserved.
• "Memrith" and the Memrith logo are claimed as trademarks of Memrith LLC. Use of the name or logo for commercial purposes, in a manner that implies affiliation or endorsement, or in any way that is likely to cause confusion, requires our prior written permission.
• You may refer to Memrith by name in editorial, journalistic, review, comparative-advertising, or interoperability contexts without prior permission, provided you do so accurately and do not falsely imply endorsement or partnership.

If you believe a third party is infringing Memrith's copyright or trademark — for example, by distributing a modified copy of the app under our name, cloning the website, or using our logo to promote unrelated software — please tell us at legal@memrith.com so we can investigate.

9. Penalties for false notices

Both DMCA notices (§ 512(c)(3)) and counter-notices (§ 512(g)(3)) include statements made under penalty of perjury. Section 512(f) further provides that "Any person who knowingly materially misrepresents under this section (1) that material or activity is infringing, or (2) that material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, shall be liable for any damages, including costs and attorneys' fees, incurred by the alleged infringer, by any copyright owner or copyright owner's authorized licensee, or by a service provider, who is injured by such misrepresentation, as a result of [our] relying upon such misrepresentation in removing or disabling access to the material or activity claimed to be infringing, or in replacing the removed material or ceasing to disable access to it."

We do not pursue § 512(f) claims as a matter of course, but we will consider doing so where notices appear designed to suppress lawful speech or competition.

10. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time to reflect changes in our services, the law, or our contact details. The "Effective and last updated" date at the top of this page reflects the most recent revision. Material changes will be highlighted at the top of this page for at least 30 days following the change.