Nibit Copyright and DMCA Policy

Version
2026-08-01
Permanent URL
/legal/copyright/2026-08-01

Effective date: 1 August 2026

1. Scope

Nibit respects intellectual property rights and expects its users to do the same. This Policy explains how to tell us about content on the Services that you believe infringes your copyright, how the person who posted it can respond, and what we do about repeat infringement. It forms part of the Terms of Service and is referenced there at section 13.

This Policy covers content that is reachable through the Services - shared notebooks, share links, collaboration spaces, groups, chat, and profile material. Notes that a user keeps private and has not shared are not publicly accessible, and we do not search private accounts on request; we act on private content only where we are legally required to.

Importing material into Nibit does not give you the right to use it. If you import a PDF, a web page, or a YouTube transcript, your rights in that material are whatever the law and its owner give you.

2. Designated agent

Notices of claimed copyright infringement under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"), 17 U.S.C. § 512, should be sent to Nibit's designated agent:

  • Agent: Copyright Agent
  • Organisation: Nibit AI, a sole proprietorship registered in the Netherlands
  • Address: Staten Bolwerk 54, 2011 MN Haarlem, Netherlands
  • Email: legal@nibit.ai
  • Telephone: +31 6 23033951

The agent is designated by title rather than by name so that the designation survives a change of staff without a stale directory entry. Nibit maintains this designation with the US Copyright Office DMCA Designated Agent Directory and renews it every three years, as § 512(c)(2) requires. Nibit is a Dutch company, which does not change this: § 512 safe harbour is available to a service provider wherever it is established, the Copyright Office directory accepts a non-US address, and the Services reach users in the United States. The directory entry points at this page, so its address will not change - see section 9.

Notices sent to any other Nibit address may be delayed. Please use the contact above for copyright matters only; reports of other policy violations go to the routes in Acceptable Use Policy section 8.

3. Filing a notice of claimed infringement

To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), your notice must be a written communication that includes substantially all of the following:

  1. Your signature - physical or electronic - as the copyright owner or a person authorised to act on the owner's behalf.
  2. Identification of the work you claim has been infringed. If you are listing multiple works from one site, a representative list is acceptable.
  3. Identification of the infringing material, with enough detail for us to locate it. A URL is the most useful thing you can give us. "Somewhere in your product" is not enough for us to act on.
  4. Your contact information - name, postal address, telephone number, and email address.
  5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
  6. A statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act on the owner's behalf.

Please note before you send:

  • Consider fair use. Quotation, criticism, commentary, teaching, scholarship, and research may be lawful uses that do not require permission. A student's annotated notes about a work are often not infringement of it.
  • We may forward your notice. We generally send the notice, including your identity and contact details, to the user whose content is affected, and we may publish or share a redacted copy. If you have a genuine safety concern about that, tell us in the notice.
  • Only the rights holder can file. If you do not own the rights and are not authorised, do not file.

What we do with a valid notice. We will expeditiously remove or disable access to the identified material, take reasonable steps to notify the affected user, and tell them how to file a counter-notification. We may terminate access for repeat infringement under section 5. We are not obliged to act on a notice that does not substantially comply with section 3, but we may contact you to help you fix it.

4. Counter-notification

If your content was removed and you believe the removal was a mistake or a misidentification, you may send a counter-notification to the agent in section 2. Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3), it must include:

  1. Your signature, physical or electronic.
  2. Identification of the removed material and the location 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. Your name, postal address, and telephone number.
  5. A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the US 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 Nibit may be found - and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the notice or their agent.

What happens next. We will forward your counter-notification to the person who filed the original notice, including your contact details. If they do not tell us within 10 to 14 business days that they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the activity, we may restore the material. Filing a counter-notification means consenting to the disclosure of your identity to the complainant and to the court jurisdiction described above.

5. Repeat infringer policy

We terminate the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe copyright.

  • A "strike" is recorded when we remove content in response to a notice that substantially complies with section 3 and the user does not successfully counter-notify.
  • Strikes are withdrawn if the material is restored, if a counter-notification stands unchallenged, or if we determine the notice was invalid.
  • Three strikes within any twelve-month period results in termination of the account. Strikes older than twelve months no longer count toward that total.
  • We may act sooner for egregious or wilful infringement, such as commercial-scale distribution.
  • Users are told when a strike is recorded and may appeal under Acceptable Use Policy section 7. Terminated users may not create new accounts to evade the decision.

6. Misrepresentation

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, including costs and legal fees. We may reject notices from senders who have a pattern of abusive or automated filings, and we may report abusive filings.

7. Complaints outside the United States

The DMCA is a US statute, but Nibit accepts copyright complaints regardless of where you or the content are located.

If you are outside the United States, send your complaint to the contact in section 2 and include, as applicable:

  • the work and the rights you hold in it, and the country whose law you are relying on;
  • the location of the material you say infringes;
  • your contact details;
  • a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised; and
  • the equivalent statutory declaration required in your jurisdiction, if there is one.

Where your local law prescribes a different process, we will follow the applicable procedure rather than the DMCA steps in sections 3 and 4. In particular:

  • India. Nibit offers the Services in India, and the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules apply. Complaints, including copyright complaints, may be sent to Nibit's Grievance Officer:
  • Designation: Grievance Officer, Nibit AI
  • - Email: privacy@nibit.ai
  • - Address: Staten Bolwerk 54, 2011 MN Haarlem, Netherlands
  • - Telephone: +31 6 23033951

We acknowledge a grievance within 24 hours of receiving it and dispose of it within 15 days. Where we are directed to remove unlawful material by a court order or by an authorised government agency, we act within 36 hours of receiving the order. The same officer and the same timelines are stated in Privacy Policy section 13.

  • European Union. Nibit is established in the Netherlands and is a hosting service provider under the Digital Services Act, Regulation (EU) 2022/2065. Section 7.1 sets out the notice-and-action mechanism the Act requires and how to use it.

We handle non-US complaints on materially the same footing: we assess the notice, remove or disable access where the claim is substantiated, notify the affected user, and allow a response.

7.1 Notice and action under the Digital Services Act

Because Nibit is established in the Netherlands, the Digital Services Act applies to it directly. An earlier version of this Policy said Nibit did not operate the Act's notice-and-action mechanism. It does now, and this section is that mechanism.

Reporting illegal content. Anyone, anywhere, may notify us of content on the Services they consider illegal. This is not limited to copyright and it is not limited to rights holders. Send the notice to legal@nibit.ai with "Illegal content" in the subject line. Under Article 16 a notice should contain:

  • a sufficiently substantiated explanation of why you consider the content illegal, and under which law;
  • the exact electronic location of the material, normally a URL, and any further information needed to find it;
  • your name and email address, except where the content concerns child sexual abuse material or one of the other offences for which the Act does not require you to identify yourself; and
  • a statement confirming your good-faith belief that the information in the notice is accurate and complete.

What we do with it. We confirm receipt without undue delay. We assess the notice in a timely, diligent, non-arbitrary, and objective way, and we tell you our decision and the redress open to you. Where we use automated means at any point in handling a notice, we say so in that response.

Statement of reasons. Whenever we restrict something because it is illegal or breaches our terms - removing it, disabling access to it, demoting it, restricting a payment, or suspending or terminating an account - we give the affected user a statement of reasons under Article 17. It sets out what was restricted and the territorial scope, the facts we relied on, whether a notice or an automated tool triggered the decision, the legal or contractual ground, and how to challenge it. We submit these statements to the Commission's DSA Transparency Database where the Act requires it.

Complaining about a decision. If we act on your content, or decline to act on your notice, you can challenge the decision free of charge for at least six months afterwards, by emailing legal@nibit.ai with "Appeal" in the subject line. A person reviews it, not an automated system alone, and we will tell you the outcome and our reasons. That is the same appeal route as Acceptable Use Policy section 7, and it stands whether or not the Act's Article 20 obliges a company of our size to run one. Deciding whether the obligation applies is not something you should have to do before complaining.

Out-of-court dispute settlement. If our decision on an appeal does not satisfy you, EU users may take the dispute to a dispute-settlement body certified by the Digital Services Coordinator of their member state. Doing so does not stop you going to court instead, and nothing here removes your right to do that.

Misuse. We may suspend, after warning, users who frequently post manifestly illegal content, and we may stop processing notices from people who frequently submit manifestly unfounded ones. Section 6 says the same thing for copyright notices specifically.

Point of contact. For the authorities and for users alike, the electronic point of contact under Articles 11 and 12 is legal@nibit.ai. We accept communications in English and in Dutch.

Why this Policy treats Nibit as a hosting service and not an online platform. The Act's additional obligations for online platforms, in Articles 20 to 24, attach to a hosting service that stores information and disseminates it to the public. Article 3(k) defines that as making information available to a potentially unlimited number of third parties. Nibit's sharing does not work that way, and it is the architecture rather than a policy choice that decides it:

  • every route that resolves a share link requires an authenticated Nibit account, so there is no anonymous path to shared content and no viewer whose identity we do not hold;
  • a share link is a 256-bit random token rather than a guessable or enumerable address, and it reaches a viewer only because the owner sent it to them;
  • the "request access" mode puts an explicit approval by the owner in front of the content;
  • groups are closed by construction: only a group's owner adds members, and only from among their own accepted friends;
  • there is no public feed, no explore surface, no setting that makes an item public, and no browsable directory of users or of content.

The audience for a shared notebook is therefore a set of identified account holders that its owner chose, which is a closed group and not the public. On that basis Articles 20 to 24 do not apply to Nibit. We run the Article 20 complaint route above regardless, because someone challenging a decision about their own content should not first have to work out which category of service we fall into.

And if that conclusion is wrong. It is worth saying what happens on the other reading, rather than resting everything on one argument. Article 19 exempts micro and small enterprises from Section 3 of the same Chapter, which is where the online-platform obligations in Articles 20 to 28 sit, and Article 15(2) exempts them from transparency reporting. What is left for a micro-enterprise online platform is the points of contact, the terms and conditions, notice and action, statements of reasons, and notification of criminal offences. That is the same list a hosting service owes. Nibit is a micro enterprise, so on either reading the obligations described above are the obligations we have, and you would not be owed less if the classification went the other way.

Whose assessment this is. The two paragraphs above are Nibit's own analysis, made on 17 August 2026, and not an opinion from outside counsel. We think that is the proportionate thing for a company of this size to do, and we would rather tell you that than let the confident tone imply otherwise. We review it when the facts it rests on change: if Nibit stops being a micro or small enterprise, if a regulator asks, or if the product gains anonymous link viewing, a publicly reachable page, or a browsable directory. Any of those would be a reason to take it to a Dutch lawyer, and the first thing we would do is update this section.

8. Trade marks and other rights

For trade mark complaints, impersonation, passing off, publicity or personality rights, database rights, or trade secrets, contact legal@nibit.ai with a description of your right, the material at issue, its location, and your contact details. These claims are handled under the Acceptable Use Policy rather than under the DMCA process above.

The Nibit name and logo are ours; see Terms section 12.

9. Changes

We may update this Policy. We will update the effective date and give notice of material changes as described in Terms section 18.

This page's URL is nibit.ai/legal/copyright and will not be renamed. The slug is deliberately not dmca, because this Policy covers non-US complaints too (section 7), and because the URL is recorded in Nibit's US Copyright Office agent registration, where it must stay stable. If the address ever has to move, we will redirect rather than rename.

Each published version has a permanent, dated URL - for example, /legal/copyright/2026-08-01.