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Copyright and DMCA policy

Effective date: October 23, 2026 · Last updated: October 23, 2026

Researchers upload articles and other files to Collie. We respect the rights of authors and publishers, and we respond to notices of claimed infringement under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. §512).

1. Our approach

Users are responsible for the files they upload and must have the right to use them, as our terms of use require. Most reviews in Collie are private to their teams, so we do not review uploads in advance. When we receive a valid notice, we act on it promptly.

2. Designated agent

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

CollieSR Company
Wyoming, United States
Email: contact@colliesr.com (subject line: "DMCA notice" or "DMCA counter-notice")
Designated agent registration with the U.S. Copyright Office: in progress.

3. How to send a notice of infringement

Your notice must be in writing and include:

  1. a physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or of a person authorized to act on the owner's behalf;
  2. identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed (or, if several works are covered by one notice, a representative list);
  3. identification of the material you claim is infringing, with information reasonably sufficient for us to locate it, such as the link to the review or the file name;
  4. your name, postal address, telephone number and email address;
  5. a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use of the material is not authorized 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 authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

Before you send a notice, please consider whether the use may be authorized, for example by a licence or as fair use. Under 17 U.S.C. §512(f), anyone who knowingly makes a material misrepresentation in a notice or counter-notice may be liable for damages.

4. What happens next

When we receive a notice that meets these requirements, we remove or disable access to the material, notify the user who uploaded it, and give that user a copy of the notice so they can respond. Notices that are missing required elements may not be acted on; we will tell you what is missing when we can.

5. How to send a counter-notice

If material you uploaded was removed and you believe that happened because of a mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to our designated agent that includes:

  1. your physical or electronic signature;
  2. identification of the material that was removed or disabled and the location where it appeared before;
  3. a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification;
  4. your name, address and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the U.S. Federal District Court for the judicial district where 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 sent the original notice or that person's agent.

We will send a copy of your counter-notice to the person who sent the original notice. Unless that person tells us that they have filed a court action seeking to restrain you from the infringing activity, we will restore the material no sooner than 10 and no later than 14 business days after we receive your counter-notice.

6. Repeat infringers

We terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who are repeat infringers. An account that is the subject of repeated valid notices that were not successfully countered may be suspended or closed. We may also restrict uploads from an account while we look into a pattern of notices.

7. Other questions

For trademark or other intellectual-property concerns, or questions about this policy, write to contact@colliesr.com. This page is information about our process, not legal advice.

This English version is the official one. Translations are provided for convenience; if they differ, the English version prevails, except where the law where you live requires otherwise.