DMCA & Takedown Policy

MichiMarket hosts content uploaded by its users: photos of cards, custom and merged pocket artwork, binder layouts, listings, and profile images. We respect the intellectual property rights of others and expect our users to do the same. This policy explains how to ask us to remove content you believe infringes your rights, how the affected user can respond, and what happens to accounts that infringe repeatedly. It operates alongside our Terms of Service.

1. Scope

This policy covers material stored or displayed on MichiMarket at the direction of a user, including:

• Images uploaded into a binder pocket (for example, a photo of a card you own).
• Custom or merged artwork uploaded to a pocket or a page.
• Binder layouts, sections, and templates ("Inserts") listed for sale or shared publicly.
• Profile and storefront media: avatars, banners, shop names, descriptions.
• Any text a user submits: listing copy, bios, comments.

It does not cover Pokémon card names, numbers, and reference imagery drawn from our third-party card-data provider and shown for identification only; see Section 8.

2. How to send a takedown notice

Send notices to our designated agent for copyright claims:

• Email: [email protected] (fastest, please use this)
• Mail: Designated Copyright Agent, MichiMarket [mailing address to be confirmed]
• Subject line: "DMCA Takedown Notice" or "Takedown Request"

For infringement of a U.S. copyright, notices are processed under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512. For rights outside U.S. copyright (trademark, right of publicity, privacy, or a counterfeit/pirated listing), see Section 7; the same contact address applies.

3. What a valid copyright notice must include

To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), your notice must include all of the following. An incomplete notice may delay or prevent action.

• A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, or a person authorized to act on their behalf.
• Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed (or, for multiple works, a representative list).
• Identification of the material you say is infringing and enough information for us to locate it: the MichiMarket URL of the binder, page, listing, or profile, and which pocket or image if it isn't the whole page.
• Your name, address, telephone number, and email address.
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief that 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.

4. What we do when we receive a valid notice

• We remove or disable access to the identified material expeditiously, which for a public binder or listing means it stops showing publicly and, for a listing, is pulled from Shop, carts, and checkout.
• We notify the user who posted it, forward them your notice (including your contact details, so they can respond directly or through a counter-notice), and tell them how to reply.
• We keep a record of the notice and the action taken.
• We may act on obvious infringement we become aware of on our own, without waiting for a formal notice.

5. Counter-notification

If your content was removed and you believe that was a mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to [email protected]. Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g), it must include:

• Your physical or electronic signature.
• Identification of the material that was removed and the location where it appeared before removal.
• A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
• Your name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or, if outside the United States, the judicial district in which MichiMarket may be found: [district to be confirmed]), and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice or their agent.

If we receive a valid counter-notice, we forward it to the original complainant. We may restore the removed material in 10 to 14 business days unless the complainant tells us they have filed a court action seeking to keep it down.

6. Repeat infringers

We terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who infringe repeatedly. Copyright strikes are tracked against a seller's account the same way our in-app content reports are: an upheld report counts as a strike, and an account reaching the strike limit is suspended, its listings pulled, and any pending purchases of its listings cancelled. Serious or clearly willful infringement can result in immediate termination without a strike count.

7. Non-copyright takedown requests

Use the same contact address for content that isn't a copyright issue but still shouldn't be here:

• Trademark: a listing, shop name, or profile that misuses your brand or implies an affiliation that doesn't exist. Tell us the mark, your rights in it, and the URL.
• Counterfeit or pirated layouts: someone re-listing a template, a section, or artwork that is really yours or someone else's. MichiMarket already blocks a page whose uploaded art fingerprint-matches another seller's live listing; this is how to report the cases that slip through.
• Privacy / right of publicity: an image of you, or of private information, posted without permission.
• Impersonation: an account or storefront pretending to be you or your business.

Any MichiMarket user can also flag a listing from its product page with the Report button; a reviewer looks at every report and can take a listing down, strike the seller, and clear it from open carts.

8. Pokémon trademarks and card data

MichiMarket is an independent marketplace. It is not produced, endorsed, sponsored, or affiliated with Nintendo, The Pokémon Company, Creatures Inc., or GAME FREAK inc. Pokémon card names, numbers, and reference images shown on MichiMarket are trademarks and/or copyrighted works of their respective owners, used for identification and reference only, and are sourced from a third-party card-data provider rather than uploaded by users. Concerns about that reference material can be sent to the address in Section 2 and will be routed to the provider or handled directly as appropriate.

9. Misuse of this process

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), a person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that it was removed by mistake, may be liable for damages. Don't send a notice or counter-notice for content you don't have the rights to act on.

10. Changes and contact

We may update this policy from time to time; material changes will be posted here. Questions that aren't themselves a notice can go to [email protected].