Stembiosis DMCA & Copyright Policy

1. Status of our designated agent

Derek Vance, who operates Stembiosis, has not yet completed registration of a DMCA designated agent with the U.S. Copyright Office. Until that registration is in place, Stembiosisruns the takedown, counter-notice, and repeat-infringer process described below voluntarily, and the safe harbor under 17 U.S.C. § 512 may not be available to us. We will update this section with the registered agent's details once the registration is complete. In the meantime, send all copyright notices to dmca@stembiosis.com.

2. How to report infringement

Email dmca@stembiosis.com with a written notice that includes all of the following (this tracks 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)):

• Your physical or electronic signature.
• Identification of the copyrighted work you say is infringed (or a representative list, if there are several).
• Identification of the material you say is infringing, with enough detail for us to find it — the collaboration ID and the file name or its content fingerprint, if you have them.
• Your name, address, phone number, and email.
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
• A statement that the information in your notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

A notice missing these elements may not be actionable. We log every notice we receive.

3. What we do with a valid notice

• We disable access to the identified file. The file is not deleted — it stays in our records, but it can no longer be streamed or downloaded on Stembiosis.
• We notify the member who uploaded it, and forward them your notice (including your contact details) so they can decide whether to send a counter-notice.
• We record a copyright strike against that member (see section 5).

4. Counter-notice

If your file was disabled and you believe that was a mistake or misidentification, email dmca@stembiosis.com with a counter-notice that includes (this tracks 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3)):

• Your physical or electronic signature.
• Identification of the file that was disabled and where it appeared before it was disabled.
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief the file was disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification.
• Your name, address, and phone number.
• A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for the district where you live (or, if outside the U.S., the federal court for any district where Stembiosis may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice or their agent.

We forward a valid counter-notice to the person who sent the original takedown. If they do not tell us within 10 to 14 business days that they have filed a court action to keep the file down, we may restore it.

5. Repeat infringers

We record a strike each time we disable a member's file in response to a copyright notice that is not reversed by a counter-notice. At 3 strikes, we suspend the account: the member can still sign in and see their existing collaborations and any pending payouts, but cannot start new collaborations, upload, or move money. We may act sooner in a clear case of intentional, repeated infringement. If a strike was recorded in error, we remove it.

6. If a disabled file was part of a funded collaboration

If we disable a master file while a payment for that collaboration is still held, the held funds are frozen and we review the collaboration under section 7 of the Terms of Service. As a default, we refund the held payment to the funder, unless a complete, non-infringing deliverable was still provided — in which case we may release it per the signed split. A disabled preview file, or a takedown after the payment has already been released, does not by itself move any money.

7. Knowingly false notices

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), anyone who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing — or that it was disabled by mistake — can be liable for damages. Do not send a notice or counter-notice about material you do not have a real claim to.

8. Contact

Copyright notices and counter-notices: dmca@stembiosis.com
Anything else: support@stembiosis.com
Derek Vance (Stembiosis), Ohio, USA