Copyright and DMCA Policy

#How we handle copyright notices

Memesly responds to valid notices of claimed copyright infringement. Send one containing the elements listed further down, and we will look at the material and, where the notice holds up, remove it or disable access to it on our site.

We run this under the notice and takedown framework of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. 512. You do not have to be in the United States to send us a notice, and we will take a well made complaint seriously whichever law you are writing from. The DMCA is simply the procedure we follow.

We keep a record of the notices we receive and of what we did about each one.

#We are not the judge of who owns what

This matters more than anything else here, so it comes early. Memesly is a website operator. We are not a court, we cannot verify a chain of title, and we have no way of telling from the outside whether a picture was drawn by the person complaining, licensed to them, assigned to them, or found by them on a timeline three years ago.

So we do not decide the underlying question. What we do is procedural: check that a notice contains what the law requires, act on it, pass along a counter notice if one arrives, and otherwise stay out of the way.

If two people both insist the work is theirs, that argument is between them. It is a real dispute with a real venue, and the venue is not our inbox. Nothing we do or decline to do settles it, and nothing on this page should be read as us taking a side.

REMOVING MATERIAL IS NOT A FINDING THAT YOU INFRINGED. LEAVING MATERIAL UP IS NOT A FINDING THAT YOU DID NOT. OUR PROCESS DECIDES WHAT APPEARS ON A WEBSITE, AND NOTHING BEYOND THAT.

#Parody, commentary, and why context matters

Memesly is a satirical parody of subscription creator platforms. Every profile on it is a fictional comic character built out of a memecoin, and the entire site exists to make a joke about an industry. We plainly have an interest in saying that parody is legitimate, so read what follows knowing that.

Copyright law in the United States, and in most places with a similar tradition, leaves room for commentary, criticism, parody, reporting and transformation. Fair use is a defense weighed across several factors with no bright line, and reasonable people argue about where any given use lands. But the existence of that room is not seriously in doubt, and a notice that treats every appearance of an image as automatically infringing is asking us to ignore an entire area of law.

In practice that means we look at what the material is doing. An unaltered reproduction of a photograph, used as decoration, is a different thing from the same photograph rebuilt into a joke about a token that fell ninety percent in a week. The second is not automatically protected and the first is not automatically infringing, but the difference is real and we will weigh it.

#Sending a takedown notice

Email with a subject line starting DMCA. Include all of the following, because a notice missing any of it is not one we can act on:

• Who you are and how to reach you. Your full name, the rights holder you act for if that is not you, and an email address we can reply to.
• Your signature. A typed name at the end of the message counts as an electronic signature for this purpose.
• The work you own. Identify the copyrighted work you say is being infringed. If a single complaint covers several works, a list is fine.
• What to remove, and exactly where it is. Give the full URL of the page and enough detail to pick out the specific item on it. A comment, a token logo and an avatar can share one page, so tell us which of them you mean.
• A good faith statement. Say that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorized by you, your agent, or the law. That final clause is part of the standard wording and it is there for a reason.
• A statement of accuracy. Say that the information in the notice is accurate.
• A statement made under penalty of perjury that you are the owner of the exclusive right involved, or that you are authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

Send it as text in the body of the email. Screenshots help us find things, but a notice that exists only inside an image attachment is slow to process and easy to misread.

SENDING A NOTICE FOR MATERIAL YOU DO NOT OWN, OR FOR A USE YOU KNOW TO BE FAIR USE, CAN MAKE YOU LIABLE FOR DAMAGES AND ATTORNEY FEES UNDER 17 U.S.C. 512(F). DO NOT USE THIS PROCESS TO WIN AN ARGUMENT OR TO TAKE DOWN A JOKE YOU DID NOT ENJOY.

#What happens after a valid notice

In order:

• We read it and check it has the required elements. If something is missing we reply and say what, rather than ignoring you.
• If it holds up, we remove the material or disable access to it. This normally takes days rather than hours; we are a small operation, not a round the clock desk.
• We tell whoever posted it what was removed and why, and we forward a copy of the notice, including the contact details in it. Anyone sending a notice should understand that the person on the other end will see who complained.
• We tell them a counter notice is available and how to file one.
• We record a strike against the account, which is what the repeat infringer section below is about.

If a notice is obviously defective, aimed at something we do not host, or written to remove criticism rather than to protect a work, we will decline it and explain why. That is not the usual outcome, but it happens, and pretending it never did would be dishonest.

#If your material was removed

If you believe your material was taken down by mistake or through misidentification, you can file a counter notice. Send it to with all of the following:

• Your signature, physical or electronic.
• Identification of the material that was removed, and where it appeared on the site before it went.
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
• Your name, a mailing address, and a telephone number where you can be reached.
• A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the district where you live, 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 from their agent.

We forward the counter notice, contact details included, to whoever complained. The statute requires that and it is not something we can do halfway. If they do not tell us they have filed a court action seeking to restrain you, we may restore the material in 10 to 14 business days.

#What we cannot remove

There is a hard boundary here, and it is better to know about it before you send a notice than afterward.

Memesly can remove things from memesly.io. That covers uploaded images, profile details, comments, and the way a token is presented on our pages.

Memesly cannot remove anything from the Solana blockchain. Once a token is minted, its name, its symbol and its metadata are written to a public ledger, and tokens created through our launchpad have their mint and metadata authority revoked at the moment of creation. That revocation is a safety feature: it is what stops a creator printing more supply or swapping the artwork for something else after people have bought in. The unavoidable cost is that afterward nobody holds a key that could change those fields. Not the creator, not us, not anyone.

A TAKEDOWN AGAINST AN ON CHAIN TOKEN CAN REMOVE IT FROM OUR WEBSITE. IT CANNOT REMOVE IT FROM THE CHAIN, FROM BLOCK EXPLORERS, FROM INDEXERS, OR FROM ANY OTHER SITE READING THE SAME LEDGER. NO OPERATOR CAN DO THAT, AND ONE WHO CLAIMS OTHERWISE IS DESCRIBING A POWER THAT DOES NOT EXIST.

Where a complaint names on chain material, we will do what is within reach: remove or unlist the token from our site, so that we at least are not the ones presenting it. We will also tell you plainly that this is a partial remedy, because it is.

#Repeat infringers

We terminate the accounts of repeat infringers. The rule is three strikes:

• A strike is recorded when we remove material in response to a valid notice.
• A strike is withdrawn if the material is restored after a counter notice runs its course, or if the complaint turns out to have been wrong.
• Three live strikes against the same wallet and the account closes. Profile gone, comments gone, no further launches from that wallet.

Judgment applies at the edges. Somebody who uploads an obviously stolen artwork once and takes the point is not in the same position as somebody running the same trick under a new handle every week. Deliberate, commercial infringement does not get three tries.

#Notices sent in bad faith

The takedown process is genuinely useful and genuinely easy to abuse. Both halves of that are worth stating on the same page.

Patterns are visible from here: a notice arriving hours after a critical comment, a complaint about material the sender plainly does not own, a demand that a parody come down because it was unflattering. Where a notice looks like an attempt to silence commentary rather than to protect a work, we will ask questions before acting, and we will keep the correspondence.

17 U.S.C. 512(f) makes a person who knowingly and materially misrepresents that material is infringing liable for damages, including costs and attorney fees, to the party harmed. That is the law's own answer to the problem, and it is not decorative.

#Updates and contact

This policy will change as the site does. The date at the top is the version in force.

One change has already happened and it matters on this page. The launchpad is live on Solana mainnet, so the tokens minted through it are real, permanent and public from the moment they are created. The limit set out under what we cannot remove stopped being theoretical when that happened. A notice naming an on chain token gets the partial remedy described there, and it is worth understanding that before you send one rather than after.

Notices, counter notices, questions about whether you need to send either, and corrections to anything wrong on this page all go to .

One last thing worth saying out loud. If somebody has put your work on this site and you would rather simply have it taken down without a formal process, write and ask. A plain email explaining who you are and what you own gets read the same day as a formal notice, and it is usually faster for everyone involved. The procedure above exists because it is sometimes necessary, not because anybody enjoys it.