Copyright Policy

Last updated: September 23, 2026

Commonwell respects intellectual property rights and expects communities and their members to do the same. Communities publish their own public websites, documents, and files through the Service. This policy explains how to report content that you believe infringes your copyright.

Reporting infringement

Send a written notice to our designated copyright agent at legal@commonwell.app with the subject "Copyright notice". Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512), the notice must include:

your physical or electronic signature;
identification of the copyrighted work you believe is infringed;
the URL or other information that lets us locate the material;
your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address;
a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

What happens next

We review each complete notice, remove or disable access to the material when appropriate, and tell the community that published it.

Counter-notices

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you can send a counter-notice to the same address. It must include your signature; identification of the removed material and where it appeared; a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief it was removed by mistake or misidentification; and your name, address, telephone number, and consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for your address (or, outside the United States, any judicial district where Commonwell may be found) and to accept service from the person who sent the original notice. We may restore the material 10 to 14 business days after receiving a valid counter-notice unless the original complainant tells us they have filed a court action.

Repeat infringers

We disable the accounts of users, and the websites of communities, that are repeatedly found to infringe.