DMCA Policy

DMCA Policy

Last Updated February 26, 2024

DMCA Policy

• Report a Violation
• Procedures
• Notice of Infringement
• Counter-Notification
• Repeat Offenders

How do I report a DMCA violation?

Report DMCA violations to our support team using our Abuse form.

Procedures

If you are unable to resolve the dispute directly with the owner and/or administrator of a website hosted by Vercel after submitting a complaint to the DMCA agent designated by the owner and/or administrator, Vercel will follow the below procedures with respect to Notices of Infringement and Counter-Notifications.

Prior to Filing a Notice of Infringement with Vercel: An owner of a copyright should conduct its own due diligence to ascertain whether the owner in fact owns the copyright to an original work and whether the content on a website hosted by Vercel constitutes an unauthorized use of the content and/or infringes on the owner's copyright and must first have attempted to resolve the issue with the owner and/or administrator of the website.

Filing a Notice of Infringement: If the copyright owner's investigation confirms that the owner actually owns the copyright and that the content posted on the website is unauthorized or infringes on the owner's copyright, the owner (hereinafter referred to as the "Complainant") should prepare and submit a Notice of Infringement to Vercel through the Designated Agent. The Notice of Infringement should include all of the statutory requirements listed below and should be sufficiently detailed. Upon receipt of the Notice of Infringement, Vercel's Designated Agent will notify the owner(s) of the website of the copyright infringement claim in the Notice of Infringement. Please note that Vercel does not monitor or police deployments and if a deployment or part thereof is taken offline, it is possible that a website owner may spin up a new deployment to push to their website and that deployment may have similar issues (and may be subject to a new DMCA complaint).

Resolving the Notice of Infringement:

• To the extent that the Notice of Infringement properly alleges that the entirety of the contents or materials of a website hosted by Vercel infringe on the Complainant's copyright, Vercel will disable the deployment at issue, in its entirety, and will take the deployment offline.

• Since Vercel is unable to disable access or to remove specific content from its customers' public websites and can only address deployments made through the Vercel Platform, in the event that the Notice of Infringement properly alleges that only portions of the website's content infringes the copyrights of the Complainant, Vercel may disable only specific pages of the deployment.

Filing a Counter-Notification: Where allegedly infringing material was removed (or access to it disabled) in response to a Notice of Infringement, the owner(s) of the website should consult with a professional and/or lawyer about their options and circumstances. If you, as the owner(s) of the website, believe that material you posted on a website deployed through the Vercel Platform was wrongfully removed or access to it was disabled by mistake or misidentification, you can file a Counter-Notification with Vercel through its Designated Agent. Vercel will then promptly provide a copy of the Counter-Notification to the Complainant who originally filed the Notice of Infringement.

Copyright Owner's Right to File a Lawsuit: Vercel will promptly replace the removed material or restore access to it within ten (10) to fourteen (14) business days after receiving the Counter-Notification from the owner(s) of the website, unless Vercel's Designated Agent receives notice from the Complainant that it has filed an action seeking a court order to restrain the owner(s) of the website from engaging in infringing activity pursuant to Section 512(g)(2)(b) of the DMCA.