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DMCA & Copyright Policy

Effective date: 2026-05-05

Sourced respects intellectual property rights. We comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512) and respond to properly-formatted notices of claimed infringement.

This page covers:

  • How to send a takedown notice
  • How to send a counter-notice if your post was wrongly removed
  • Our repeat-infringer policy

Designated Copyright Agent

Notices must be sent to our Designated Agent registered with the U.S. Copyright Office:

Designated Agent — Unlimited Apps, Inc. Email: dmca@unlimited-apps.com Address: contact the agent at the email above for the mailing address.

A copy of our designated-agent registration is available in the public DMCA Designated Agent Directory at dmca.copyright.gov under the service-provider name "Unlimited Apps, Inc." or any of its alternate names (Sourced, sourced-social.com, etc.).

We aim to acknowledge valid notices within 5 business days and act on them within 10 business days.

How to send a valid DMCA takedown notice

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), a valid notice must include all six of the following. A notice missing any of these is legally deficient and we are not required to act on it.

  1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or

their authorized agent. (Typing "/s/ Your Name" is acceptable.)

  1. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed.

If multiple works at the same site, a representative list is fine.

  1. Identification of the infringing material and information

reasonably sufficient to let us locate it. Please include the full URL of the Sourced post, e.g., https://sourced-social.com/p/<id>.

  1. Your contact information — name, mailing address, telephone

number, and email.

  1. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed

use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.

  1. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in

your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

Send the complete notice to dmca@unlimited-apps.com.

Knowing material misrepresentations in a DMCA notice — including sending a takedown for content you don't own the copyright to — can result in liability for damages under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f). We forward suspicious notices to counsel.

What happens after we receive a notice

  1. We log the notice in our internal queue.
  2. An admin reviews it within 5 business days.
  3. If the notice is valid, we remove the post and notify the author

that their post was taken down for DMCA, with your name and notice attached so they can decide whether to file a counter-notice.

  1. We add a strike to the author's account (see repeat-infringer

policy below).

  1. If the notice is deficient, we email the sender explaining what's

missing.

We do not pre-screen for infringement. Our moderation pipeline catches some content but is not designed to enforce third-party copyrights.

Counter-notice (if your post was wrongly removed)

If you posted material on Sourced and we removed it after receiving a DMCA notice, you can submit a counter-notice. Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3), a valid counter-notice must include:

  1. Your physical or electronic signature.
  2. Identification of the removed material and where it appeared

before removal (the post URL).

  1. A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith

belief that the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.

  1. Your name, address, telephone number, and a statement that you

consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court in which you reside (or, if outside the U.S., the Southern District of New York), and that you will accept service of process from the original notice sender.

Send the complete counter-notice to dmca@unlimited-apps.com.

If we receive a valid counter-notice, we forward it to the original claimant. Under § 512(g), we will restore the removed material in 10 to 14 business days unless the claimant notifies us they have filed a court action seeking to restrain you from the activity.

Repeat-infringer policy

Per 17 U.S.C. § 512(i), we maintain a policy of terminating accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances.

Sourced uses a three-strike rule:

  • Strike 1 — first valid takedown: post removed, account warned.
  • Strike 2 — second valid takedown: post removed, account

warned again, posting privileges restricted for 7 days.

  • Strike 3 — third valid takedown: account permanently terminated.

Withdrawn payouts forfeit.

Strikes track the account, not individual posts. A single notice covering multiple posts counts as one strike. Strikes are not removed by deleting and recreating an account — we cross-reference signup metadata.

Strikes are removed only if the corresponding takedown is reversed through a successful counter-notice or by claimant withdrawal.

What's not covered by this policy

This page is the formal DMCA process. It doesn't cover:

  • Defamation, harassment, privacy violations — see Community

Guidelines for those reporting flows.

  • Trademark complaints — send those to legal@unlimited-apps.com.
  • Hate speech, CSAM, threats — these go through our standard

moderation pipeline, not the DMCA process. Use the in-app report button.

This policy is the operating procedure for the platform. It does not constitute legal advice. If your rights are at stake — yours or someone else's — consult counsel.