Copyright and DMCA Policy

1. Our position

Market Bee respects intellectual property and expects its users to do the same. We respond to clear notices of alleged copyright infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512.

Storefronts, product listings, and photographs on the Service are published by independent vendors, not by us. We do not pre-screen them.

2. Designated agent

Send copyright notices and counter-notices to our designated agent:

Email is the fastest route and the one we monitor. Please use it unless you need a paper record.

3. How to submit a notice of infringement

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

• A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, or a person authorized to act on the owner's behalf.
• Identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed — or, if multiple works at one site are covered by a single notice, a representative list of them.
• Identification of the material you claim is infringing and that you want removed, with enough detail for us to locate it. A direct URL to the page and a description of the specific photograph or text is the single most helpful thing you can give us.
• Information reasonably sufficient for us to contact you: your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
• 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.
• A statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and — under penalty of perjury — that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

An incomplete notice may not be effective and may delay our response. We may ask you for missing pieces before we act.

4. What we do when we receive a notice

• We review the notice and, if it is complete and appears valid, remove or disable access to the material expeditiously.
• We notify the user who posted it, forward a copy of your notice (including your contact information — see the note below), and tell them how to file a counter-notice.
• We record the incident against that user's account for the purposes of our repeat-infringer policy.

We may also publish or forward a copy of the notice, with personal contact details redacted, to a third-party transparency service.

5. How to submit a counter-notice

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you may send our designated agent a counter-notice. Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3) 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.
• A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of 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 we may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the notice or their agent.

We will forward your counter-notice to the original complainant. 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.

6. Repeat infringers

We terminate, in appropriate circumstances and at our discretion, the accounts of users who are repeat infringers. We consider the number and seriousness of valid notices, whether any counter-notice was filed, and the user's overall conduct on the Service. A vendor whose account is terminated for repeat infringement may not open a new one.

7. Misrepresentation

8. Trademark and other complaints

The DMCA covers copyright only. For trademark complaints — counterfeit goods, a storefront using your brand name or logo, or a listing implying an affiliation with you that does not exist — email dmca@themarketbee.com with the registration number or a description of your common-law rights, the goods or services it covers, the URL of the material, and an explanation of why the use is likely to confuse. We handle these case by case.

For privacy or right-of-publicity concerns — such as a photograph of you published without permission — use our contact page or the reporting route in the Acceptable Use Policy.

9. Contact us

Copyright and trademark notices: dmca@themarketbee.com.

Market Bee LLC — postal address in the "Designated agent" section above.