DMCA Policy

Overview

DeepInquiry respects intellectual property rights and complies with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 17 U.S.C. § 512. This page explains how to report content accessible through the DeepInquiry website, API, or embeddable widget that you believe infringes your copyright, and how to submit a counter-notice if your content was removed in response to a notice you believe was submitted in error.

This policy supplements the abbreviated DMCA clause in Section 15 of our Terms of Service. If the two conflict, this page controls with respect to notice and counter-notice procedure.

Facts, citations, and copyright

Under U.S. law, individual facts are not protected by copyright (see Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service Co., 499 U.S. 340). DeepInquiry indexes short factual claims — dates, measurements, occurrences, statements of who did what and when — extracted from third-party sources and displays them with citations back to those sources.

Nevertheless, if you believe the specific wording, images, diagrams, tables, or other expressive material accessible through the Service infringes a copyright you own or control, you may submit a notice using the procedure below and we will evaluate it in good faith.

How to submit a DMCA takedown notice

Send your notice to:

DeepInquiry — DMCA Agent
Epic Sky, LLC
Email: legal@deepinquiry.ai

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), your notice must include all of the following:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed (or, for multiple works at a single online site, a representative list of such works).
3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient to allow us to locate it — for DeepInquiry, please include the fact ID (visible on any /fact/<id> page), the full URL, and (where applicable) the specific quoted text.
4. Contact information for the complaining party — reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, including a mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of 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 authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Notices that do not substantially comply with 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) may not be actionable. Knowingly materially misrepresenting that material is infringing may subject you to liability for damages under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f).

What happens after we receive a notice

1. We acknowledge receipt within 5 business days of a notice that substantially complies with the requirements above.
2. If the notice appears valid, we will remove or disable access to the identified material.
3. We will notify the affected account holder (if any) of the removal, provide a copy of the notice, and inform them of their right to submit a counter-notice.
4. Repeat infringers — accounts or partners that are the subject of multiple, unresolved DMCA notices — will have their accounts, API keys, or widget partnerships terminated in accordance with 17 U.S.C. § 512(i).

Counter-notice procedure

If you are a DeepInquiry user, partner, or content owner and you believe material was removed or disabled by mistake or as a result of misidentification, you may submit a counter-notice under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g).

Send the counter-notice to the same address as above. It must include:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled (again, include the fact ID and URL where possible).
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 federal district court for the judicial district in which the address is located (or, if outside the United States, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, where DeepInquiry is subject to jurisdiction), and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original notice or an agent of such person.

After we receive a valid counter-notice, we will forward it to the original complainant. Unless the complainant files a court action seeking to restrain the alleged infringing activity within 10 to 14 business days, we may restore the removed material.

As with takedown notices, knowingly materially misrepresenting that material was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification may subject you to liability under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f).

Designated agent

The designated agent to receive notifications of claimed infringement under the DMCA is:

Legal — DeepInquiry
c/o Epic Sky, LLC
Email: legal@deepinquiry.ai

Notices sent to this address are received and reviewed regardless of formal registration status. We recommend sending both a physical or scanned signature via email attachment and a plain-text version of the notice for our records.

Questions

General questions about this policy that are not DMCA notices or counter-notices can be sent to legal@deepinquiry.ai. Do not include DMCA notices or counter-notices in the same message as general inquiries — DMCA correspondence is triaged separately.