Sports clips, photography, writing, broadcasts, and team branding can be protected by intellectual property rights. Their appearance on a public network is not permission to reuse them. We respect lawful exceptions such as fair use; crediting a source alone does not establish an exception.
1. Tell us about an infringement
A rights holder or authorized representative can email support@2ndscreen.social. Identify the protected work or mark, the owner and your authority to act, the exact post or page links, the rights you believe are infringed, and a reliable way to reach you. Explain why the use is unauthorized, including any relevant context or license. Please do not attach unnecessary copies of protected or sensitive material.
For a copyright notice seeking action under US law, include your signature; contact details including address and phone number; identification of the work and the material to be removed; a good-faith statement that the use is not authorized by the owner, its agent, or law; and a statement that the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act for the owner. A typed name can serve as an electronic signature.
For a trademark concern, also identify the mark, relevant territory, any registration, and how the use is likely to confuse people. A reference to a team or a clearly identified fan account is not automatically infringement.
If you are not the rights holder or their representative, you can still flag suspected misconduct through ordinary reporting. Do not claim an authority you do not have or submit knowingly false notices.
2. What our response covers
We assess reports concerning content or access within our control and may request missing information. Appropriate action can include removing material we publish, correcting our listings, or restricting services we control. For accounts currently hosted on our server, we can restrict or suspend hosting. We cannot apply that hosting action to accounts held elsewhere, and we do not currently run our own system for hiding individual network posts for everyone using the app. We do not own or host every post displayed by 2nd screen and cannot erase all copies from the AT Protocol network.
Bluesky’s social content service supplies posts to the app even for accounts hosted with us. Where action on Bluesky’s service or another provider’s hosting is needed, we may refer the concern to that provider or explain how to report directly. For Bluesky, see its copyright and intellectual property policy. Referral does not replace responsibilities that apply to our own service.
We may provide the relevant notice to the affected poster, provider, or our advisers so they can assess it, respond, or meet a legal requirement. Include only information needed for the claim; notices are not guaranteed to remain confidential. We will avoid unnecessary disclosure of sensitive details.
3. Challenge a mistake
If we restrict your content, you can reply to our notice or email support with the affected link, our reference, and the reason you believe the decision is wrong. Provide evidence of a license, mistaken identity, or a legal exception when relevant.
If the statutory DMCA counter-notice procedure applies, the counter-notice must identify the removed material and its former location, include your name, address, telephone number and signature, and state under penalty of perjury your good-faith belief that removal resulted from mistake or misidentification. It must include the required consent to federal court jurisdiction and acceptance of service from the complainant or their agent. For a US address, jurisdiction is the federal district covering that address; for an address outside the US, it is a district where the service provider is located.
A statutory counter-notice is shared with the complainant and can lead to litigation. Where the procedure applies, restoration ordinarily follows 10–14 business days after receipt of a valid counter-notice unless the designated agent receives notice of a court action seeking to restrain the activity. Separate lawful grounds for restriction may still apply. An ordinary trademark appeal is not a DMCA counter-notice.
4. Repeat infringement and contact
We terminate access to services we control for repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances, taking account of valid notices, substantiated disputes and the rights available under applicable law. Abusive or knowingly false reports may also lead to restrictions and legal consequences. The account host remains responsible for its account-level actions.
The contact above is our general IP intake. It is not a representation that a DMCA designated agent is registered or that our service qualifies for a statutory safe harbor. You can still submit an IP report here; we assess it and take appropriate action within our control. If a registered-agent contact is established, we will publish it here. See the US Copyright Office’s notice-and-takedown information for background.