copyright policy

if you're a contributor

the library is meant for material you have the right to share: work you created, work in the public domain, work released under a permissive license (creative commons, etc.), and work whose author has given you permission.

when you add an item, you sign a short statement with your wallet acknowledging that you have the rights to share what you're uploading. that record lives in our takedown log — it isn't published anywhere, but it's what we point to if a notice comes in.

do not upload copyrighted material without permission. we will remove it, and repeated upload of infringing material will end your ability to contribute.

if you're a rights holder

praxis complies with the digital millennium copyright act (17 u.s.c. § 512). if you believe material in the library infringes a copyright you own or represent, send a notice to our designated agent.

what a valid notice needs to include

under § 512(c)(3), a takedown notice must contain:

1. your physical or electronic signature (name is fine).
2. identification of the copyrighted work you claim is being infringed (a title, isbn, or citation is enough; you don't need to attach the work).
3. identification of the material on praxis you want removed, with enough detail for us to find it. the clearest identifier is the library item's page url — for example https://ourpraxis.network/library?item=42 — or its ipfs cid.
4. your contact information: postal address, phone number, and email.
5. a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the rights holder, the rights holder's agent, or the law.
6. a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are authorized to act on behalf of the rights holder.

what happens next

we act expeditiously on valid notices. specifically, when we remove an item we:

• flag the item as removed in the library index (it stops appearing in searches and detail pages),
• unpin it from both of our ipfs nodes,
• drop it from our image and gateway caches, and
• add the cid to our gateway blocklist so future requests to /api/ipfs-proxy/<cid> return a permanent 410 gone.

we notify the contributor of the takedown and give them a chance to file a counter-notice.

a note on ipfs

the library serves files through our own ipfs gateway. removing an item removes it from praxis — from our index, our nodes, our caches, and our gateway. it doesn't remove the file from the broader ipfs network, because ipfs is a distributed protocol and other peers may still be serving the underlying content. if you need those other peers to stop serving the content, you'll need to contact them separately.

what praxis controls is what praxis serves. we take that seriously.

counter-notice

if your content was removed and you believe the takedown was mistaken or made in bad faith, you can send a counter-notice to dmca@ourpraxis.network. under § 512(g), a valid counter-notice includes:

1. your signature, name, address, phone, and email.
2. identification of the material that was removed and where it appeared before removal.
3. a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
4. consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for your address (or, if outside the u.s., any district in which praxis may be found), and consent to accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice.

if we receive a valid counter-notice and the original filer doesn't file suit within 10-14 business days, we may restore the item.

repeat infringers

wallets that receive multiple valid takedowns are blocked from contributing further items to the library. the threshold is three confirmed strikes. we track this off-chain — the wallet's other activity on praxis is unaffected, but it can no longer add to the library.

false or bad-faith notices

filing a takedown notice under § 512(f) with materially false claims exposes the filer to damages, including attorney's fees. before sending a notice, please consider whether the use is authorized or protected — for example, by fair use, public-domain status, or a permissive license.

acceptable use, in short

the library is a community-curated repository of free and open knowledge. contribute:

• work you created,
• work in the public domain,
• work under creative commons or other permissive licenses,
• work you have the author's permission to share.

don't contribute:

• copyrighted material without permission,
• material subject to a nondisclosure or licensing agreement you can't override,
• material a court has ordered removed.