Copyright & IP Policy

1. Our position

Verse·Shop is a hosting platform. Poems, artwork and designs are uploaded by independent creators, who warrant to us that they own them. We do not pre-screen, verify or endorse what they publish, and we have no general obligation to monitor.

We respect intellectual property and expect creators to do the same. We act on notices of infringement, we maintain a repeat-infringer termination policy, and we cooperate with rights-holders and with lawful requests from authorities.

Nothing in this policy is legal advice, and nothing in it waives any right or defence available to us.

2. Sending an infringement notice

Email info [at] myverseshop [dot] com with the subject line “Infringement notice”. Postal notice may be sent to [LEGAL ENTITY NAME] Ltd., [STREET, CITY, POSTAL CODE], Israel, marked for the attention of the Copyright Agent. Email is faster.

Your notice must include all of the following. Incomplete notices delay or prevent action:

1. Identification of the work or mark you say is infringed — for a copyright work, a description and, where available, a link to or copy of the original; for a trademark, the registration number, jurisdiction, mark, and the goods and services it covers.
2. The exact URL or URLs on myverseshop.com (or a creator subdomain or connected custom domain) where the infringing material appears, and enough description to let us find it — a storefront name alone is not enough.
3. Your full legal name, postal address, telephone number and email address.
4. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use complained of is not authorised by you, your agent, or the law.
5. A statement that the information in the notice is accurate and that, under penalty of perjury, you are the owner of the right or authorised to act on the owner's behalf.
6. Your physical or electronic signature.

Send one notice per matter, listing every URL involved. Do not send the same notice repeatedly; duplicates slow everything down.

If you are acting for a rights-holder, say who you act for and in what capacity. We may ask for evidence of authority.

3. What we do with a notice

We review notices in the order received. Where a notice is complete and appears well-founded, we will normally remove or disable access to the identified material expeditiously, and where necessary cancel or refund pending orders for it.

We forward the notice, including its substance and normally the identity and contact details of the sender, to the creator who published the material, so that they can respond. If you do not want your details passed on, say so and explain why; we will consider it but we may be unable to act on an anonymous notice.

We may act on a notice without deciding the merits, and we may decline to act where a notice is incomplete, appears abusive, concerns a dispute over ownership between two parties, or does not describe an infringement (for example, a complaint about criticism, or about facts and ideas rather than expression).

We may also remove content on our own initiative where we consider infringement likely, without any notice at all.

4. Counter-notice (for creators)

If your content was removed and you believe that was a mistake or misidentification, or that you hold the rights, you may send a counter-notice to info [at] myverseshop [dot] com with the subject line “Counter-notice”. It must include:

1. Identification of the material removed and the URL where it appeared.
2. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
3. Your full legal name, postal address, telephone number and email address.
4. A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the the competent courts of Tel Aviv–Jaffa, Israel, and — where the complainant is outside Israel — of the courts of the complainant's jurisdiction, and that you will accept service of process from the complainant or their agent.
5. Your physical or electronic signature.

We forward the counter-notice to the complainant. Where the applicable law provides for it, we may restore the material after a waiting period (typically ten to fourteen business days) unless the complainant informs us that they have started court proceedings.

Restoring material is at our discretion. We may decline to restore anything, for any reason, including where restoration would expose us to risk. Removal and non-restoration are not breaches of any agreement with you.

Sending a counter-notice exposes you to legal claims and to the complainant's costs if you are wrong. Take advice before sending one.

5. Repeat infringers

We terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of creators who repeatedly infringe.

We record every substantiated notice against an account. As a general guide, two substantiated notices lead to suspension of publishing and a review; three lead to termination of the account and all its storefronts. We may terminate sooner — including on a single notice — where the infringement is deliberate, commercial-scale, or serious.

Terminated creators may not open a new account. Accounts we identify as evasions of a termination are closed and their earnings are subject to withholding and set-off under the Creator Agreement.

Notices we determine to be invalid, withdrawn, or successfully countered do not count against an account.

6. Trademark, publicity and other rights

Use the same address, info [at] myverseshop [dot] com, for trademark complaints (include the registration details and the goods and services covered), and for complaints about the unauthorised use of a name, likeness, signature or persona.

For a right-of-publicity or likeness complaint, tell us whose likeness is used, your relationship to that person or their estate, and where it appears.

For a privacy or defamation complaint, or for anything else covered by the Content Policy, use info [at] myverseshop [dot] com.

7. Abuse of this process

Knowingly materially misrepresenting that material is infringing — or that it was removed by mistake — may make you liable for damages, including costs and legal fees, under the law of several jurisdictions.

We may refuse to process notices from a sender who repeatedly submits notices we find to be false, abusive or made in bad faith, and we may pass such notices to the affected creator in full.

8. Preservation and disclosure

We may retain removed material and associated records for as long as needed for legal, evidential and dispute purposes, notwithstanding removal from public view.

We disclose user information to a complainant only where required by law, by a court order or valid legal process, or where we consider disclosure necessary to protect rights or safety. We may notify the affected user of a disclosure request unless prohibited from doing so.

9. Contact

Copyright Agent, [LEGAL ENTITY NAME] Ltd., [STREET, CITY, POSTAL CODE], Israel. Email: info [at] myverseshop [dot] com.

Before publishing: creators should read the intellectual-property section of the Content Policy. Most takedowns on platforms like this one involve song lyrics, quotations, translations, fonts and stock imagery used without the right licence.