Copyright and DMCA Takedown Policy

Operated by: [Coub.AI Ltd, Seychelles — confirm legal entity & registered address] ("Coub.AI", "we", "us", "our"), operator of the coub.ai multi-modal AI generation platform (the "Service").

Effective date: June 16, 2026

This policy explains how Coub.AI responds to claims of copyright infringement on the Service, how to submit a takedown notice, how to file a counter-notice, and how we treat repeat infringers. It applies to all users of the Service, including during the current closed beta.

Coub.AI is incorporated in the Seychelles and is not established in the United States. We nonetheless model our takedown process on the framework of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"), 17 U.S.C. § 512, because it is a clear, widely understood standard and because our content delivery relies on U.S.-linked infrastructure (e.g., Cloudflare). Following this process does not constitute a waiver of any defense, jurisdictional objection, or right available to us under Seychelles or any other applicable law.

1. Respect for Intellectual Property

1.1. Coub.AI respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects every user to do the same.

1.2. You may use the Service only to generate, upload, store, and share content that you own or are otherwise authorized to use. You must not use the Service to reproduce, distribute, display, or create derivative works from copyrighted material, trademarks, or other protected works without the rights holder's permission or a valid legal exception.

1.3. AI inputs. When you upload reference images, audio, video, 3D assets, or other material to guide a generation (for example, image-to-image, image-to-video, or audio inputs), you represent that you hold the necessary rights to that input material and to its use in AI generation. Uploading a third party's copyrighted work as a generation input without authorization may infringe that party's rights.

1.4. AI outputs. Subject to the terms of the underlying AI provider (the generation runs on fal.ai-hosted models), you own the content you generate through the Service. By generating, uploading, or storing content, you grant Coub.AI a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, cache, reproduce, transcode, watermark, transmit, and display that content solely to operate, secure, and provide the Service to you (and, where you choose to share content, to the recipients you share it with). This license ends when the content is deleted from the Service, except for copies retained transiently in caches, backups, or as required to comply with law or resolve disputes.

1.5. Novel IP questions for AI-generated content. AI-generated outputs raise unsettled legal questions, including whether and to what extent such outputs are protected by copyright, who (if anyone) owns them, and whether a given output infringes pre-existing works the model was trained on or that were supplied as inputs. The law in this area differs by jurisdiction and is changing. You are solely responsible for how you use the content you generate, including any commercial use, publication, or distribution, and for ensuring that your use does not infringe the rights of any third party. Coub.AI makes no representation that any output is free of third-party rights or is itself protectable.

2. Content Moderation and Prohibited Material

2.1. Independently of copyright, the Service applies automated moderation to inputs and outputs using Google Gemini, OpenAI omni-moderation, and Cloudflare CSAM scanning on stored objects.

2.2. The following content is strictly prohibited and will be removed and reported where required by law: child sexual abuse material (CSAM); non-consensual intimate imagery; impersonation of real, identifiable people; malware and content designed to facilitate it; instructions for weapon assembly; and hate speech.

2.3. Copyright takedown is a separate process from the moderation above. A copyright complaint should be filed under this policy; complaints about prohibited material under Section 2.2 should be sent to support via /privacy/data-request or legal@coub.ai.

3. Repeat-Infringer Policy

3.1. Coub.AI will, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, suspend or terminate the accounts of users who are repeat infringers.

3.2. What counts as a strike. A user receives a strike when content they generated, uploaded, or shared is removed or disabled in response to a valid takedown notice under this policy that is not successfully reversed by a counter-notice or withdrawn by the complainant.

3.3. Threshold. A user who accumulates three (3) strikes is subject to termination of their account and forfeiture of access to the Service. We may act sooner in cases of egregious, willful, or large-scale infringement, or where a single notice covers a pattern of infringing activity.

3.4. Credits. Termination for repeat infringement does not entitle the user to a refund or restoration of credits. During the closed beta, credits are granted manually and have no cash value; this does not change our right to terminate for repeat infringement.

3.5. We maintain a record of notices and strikes associated with each account for the purpose of administering this policy.

4. How to File a Copyright Takedown Notice

4.1. If you are a copyright owner (or someone authorized to act on a copyright owner's behalf) and you believe that content on the Service infringes your copyright, you may send us a written takedown notice.

4.2. Where to send it. Email your notice to dmca@coub.ai with the subject line "Copyright Takedown Notice." You may also send it to our designated agent:

Designated Copyright Agent: [Coub.AI Ltd — designated agent name & address; U.S. Copyright Office DMCA Designated Agent registration is pending] Email: dmca@coub.ai

Note: Registration of our designated agent with the U.S. Copyright Office is in progress. Until that registration is complete, the email channel above is the authoritative point of contact for copyright notices.

4.3. Required elements. To be valid and actionable, your notice must include all of the following (these track the requirements of 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)):

(a) Identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed. If multiple works are covered by a single notice, provide a representative list of those works.

(b) Identification of the infringing material and information reasonably sufficient to let us locate it. Include the specific URL(s) on the Service where the material appears (for example, the share link, gallery URL, or asset URL), plus any other identifiers (such as a content ID, timestamp, or screenshot) that help us find it.

(c) Your contact information, including your full name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.

(d) A good-faith statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.

(e) An accuracy and authority statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

(f) Your signature (physical or electronic) — the signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on the owner's behalf. Typing your full legal name in the notice constitutes an electronic signature.

4.4. Incomplete notices. If your notice is missing required elements, we may be unable to act on it and may ask you to resubmit a corrected notice. We may, but are not obligated to, contact you to cure deficiencies.

4.5. Language. Notices may be submitted in English. We will make reasonable efforts to process notices submitted in Russian, but English is preferred to avoid delay.

5. What Happens After We Receive a Valid Notice

5.1. Upon receiving a notice that substantially complies with Section 4.3, we will expeditiously remove or disable access to the identified material.

5.2. We will take reasonable steps to notify the affected user that their content has been removed or disabled in response to a copyright notice. Where permitted, we will forward a copy of the notice (which may include your contact details) to that user so they understand the basis for removal and can decide whether to submit a counter-notice.

5.3. We will record a strike against the affected user's account in accordance with Section 3, unless and until the removal is reversed by a valid counter-notice or the complainant withdraws the notice.

5.4. Removing or disabling content is not a determination that infringement has in fact occurred; it is our response to a facially valid notice.

6. Counter-Notice Procedure

6.1. If your content was removed or disabled and you believe this was a mistake or misidentification — for example, because you own the content, you are authorized to use it, your use is otherwise lawful (such as a permitted exception), or the material was wrongly identified — you may submit a counter-notice. This procedure is modeled on 17 U.S.C. § 512(g).

6.2. Where to send it. Email your counter-notice to dmca@coub.ai with the subject line "Copyright Counter-Notice."

6.3. Required elements. Your counter-notice must include all of the following:

(a) Identification of the material that was removed or disabled and the location (URL or other identifier) at which it appeared before removal.

(b) Your contact information, including your full name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.

(c) 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.

(d) A consent-to-jurisdiction statement — a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of a court of competent jurisdiction (in the U.S. framework, the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located, or, if your address is outside the United States, any judicial district in which Coub.AI may be found or which Coub.AI designates), and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice or that person's agent.

(e) Your signature (physical or electronic), as described in Section 4.3(f).

6.4. What happens next. When we receive a valid counter-notice, we will forward it to the original complainant. If the complainant does not notify us within ten (10) business days that they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the allegedly infringing activity, we may restore the removed material, generally within ten (10) to fourteen (14) business days after we received your counter-notice. Restoration timing may vary because of beta-stage operational constraints.

6.5. A successful counter-notice that results in restoration removes the associated strike under Section 3.

7. Misuse and Abuse of This Process

7.1. The takedown and counter-notice process exists to protect genuine rights holders and to correct genuine mistakes. Misusing it has consequences.

7.2. Material misrepresentation. Under the DMCA framework (17 U.S.C. § 512(f)), a person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that material was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, may be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys' fees. Beyond U.S. law, knowingly false notices may also give rise to liability under applicable Seychelles, EU, or other law.

7.3. Our response to abuse. We may reject, deprioritize, or decline to act on notices or counter-notices that are incomplete, abusive, automated at scale without diligence, harassing, or submitted in bad faith. We may suspend or terminate accounts (including business or agent accounts) that repeatedly submit abusive or fraudulent notices.

7.4. Do not use this process to silence lawful speech, competitors, or content you simply dislike. Submit a notice only when you have a good-faith belief that an actual copyright is being infringed.

8. Privacy of Notices

8.1. Notices and counter-notices are legal documents. We process the personal data in them to administer this policy and, where required, to forward them to the other party (the complainant or the affected user), who may use them to pursue or defend a legal claim.

8.2. By submitting a notice or counter-notice, you understand that we may share its contents — including your identity and contact details — with the other party and, where appropriate, with our service providers, advisors, or authorities. For broader information about how we handle personal data, see our Privacy Policy and the data-request channel at /privacy/data-request. EU users retain their GDPR rights, including data export and erasure (subject to our retention of records reasonably necessary to administer and defend this process).

9. Trademarks and Other Rights

9.1. This policy addresses copyright. Complaints about trademark misuse, the right of publicity, impersonation of a real person, or other non-copyright intellectual-property rights should be sent to legal@coub.ai with a clear description of the right at issue, the allegedly infringing material and its URL, and your authority to act. We review these on a case-by-case basis and may apply a similar removal process.

9.2. Real-person impersonation and non-consensual intimate imagery are also handled as prohibited content under Section 2 and may be removed regardless of any copyright analysis.

10. Changes to This Policy

10.1. We may update this policy from time to time to reflect changes in our Service, our infrastructure, applicable law, or our practices — including once our U.S. Copyright Office designated-agent registration is complete and once a live payment processor and any post-beta plan changes (Free / Lite / Pro) take effect.

10.2. When we make material changes, we will update the "Effective date" and "Last updated" lines above and, where appropriate, notify users by email or through the Service. Your continued use of the Service after a change takes effect constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

11. Contact

Governing law and venue: This policy and any dispute arising from it are governed by the laws of [Seychelles — confirm governing law & dispute-resolution venue], without prejudice to mandatory consumer-protection rights that EU users may have under the law of their country of residence.

This document is part of, and should be read together with, the Coub.AI Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.