Copyright strikes
TPS removes content when we receive a valid copyright notice about it. People who keep posting infringing content lose their accounts. Here’s how that works.
What counts as a notice we act on
A notice sent through /report or to our copyright agent that identifies the work, identifies the content on TPS, gives the sender’s contact details, and includes the good-faith statement, the accuracy statement and the signature described on /report. When a notice like that leads us to remove content, and the removal stands, that’s a notice we’ve acted on.
Strikes
- One valid notice that isn’t successfully rebutted counts as one strike. Several notices about the same upload, received before we’ve acted on it, count as one.
- Two strikes in 12 months: a warning, and a 7-day suspension of your ability to upload runs and evidence files.
- Three strikes in 12 months, or any deliberate re-upload of material we removed: your account is closed, and you may not open another.
What doesn’t count
If you send a counter-notice and the content is restored, the strike is cancelled. A notice we decided not to act on isn’t a strike.
We tell you
Each time a strike is recorded you get a private notice saying which content it relates to, what notice we received, and how to challenge it.
Challenging a strike
Send a counter-notice through /report (the page explains what it needs to say), or use the appeal on the run page if the content was a run. If a strike is cancelled, anything that followed from it (a suspension, a closure) is reversed as far as we can reverse it.
After closure
Runs you submitted stay on the leaderboard under the Data Terms, with your handle and account link removed, unless a run was itself removed as infringing. Evidence files from runs removed as infringing are deleted: immediately from our live systems, and from backups within 35 days.