Copyright and DMCA

You own what you write on Inkbreaker. This page covers two separate things: getting evidence to support your own copyright claims, and reporting work that infringes your copyright on our platform.

Evidence for your own claims

If you need to prove you authored something (for a DMCA notice you send elsewhere, a copyright registration, or your lawyer), you can download authorship evidence for your work.

Go to Preferences › Account and choose Download authorship evidence. For each piece you get:

• The moment it first existed on Inkbreaker, from an append-only record written when the piece was created and never changed since.
• SHA-256 fingerprints of the content at creation and now. A fingerprint is a hash of the exact text, so an identical copy always produces the same fingerprint and can be matched to your work.
• The full edit history, each revision fingerprinted and timestamped.

You can also reach this evidence from a few other places, so you do not have to dig through settings:

• On a piece you are reading, if it is yours, open the author menu in the top corner and choose Download authorship evidence for that one piece.
• When you export a piece or a series (see Saving and recovering your work), tick Include authorship evidence and the certificate and fingerprint record ride along in the same download.
• In your full data export (Preferences › Account › Download my data), it is in the evidence/ folder. Your full backup always includes it.

Inkbreaker is the custodian of this record. We did not create your work and claim no rights in it.

Report infringement on Inkbreaker

If your copyrighted work is being used on Inkbreaker without your permission, send us a DMCA takedown notice.

Go to Support and open the DMCA tab. The form asks for:

• Who you are and how to reach you.
• The work being infringed.
• A direct link to the specific content on Inkbreaker. This is required. If you genuinely cannot link it, you must describe exactly where it is. We cannot act on a vague notice.
• Two sworn statements and your signature, as the law requires.

You do not need an Inkbreaker account to file a notice.

What happens next

Our team reviews every notice. If we act on one, we lock the content so it is hidden from the public while the claim is resolved, and we tell the author. We may then take the content down or, if the claim does not hold up, restore it. Accounts that repeatedly infringe can lose access, as our Terms describe.

If your work was locked by mistake

If we locked one of your pieces under a copyright claim and you believe that was a mistake, or that you have the right to post it, you can file a counter-notice. The notice we send you links to the form. A counter-notice is a sworn legal statement. After you file one, we forward it to the person who complained. If they do not go to court to stop you, we may restore your content once the waiting period the law sets has passed: 10 business days, so about two weeks. We never restore it sooner than that.

We act on copyright claims in good faith and as the law requires. We are not a court, and we cannot decide who owns a work. These steps balance a creator’s right to have infringing copies removed against an author’s right to keep work they are entitled to post.