Copyright

Effective 2026-08-26.

Rewound is operated from Canada, and Canadian hosts follow a different process from the one most people expect. Read the first section even if you have sent copyright notices before.

Notice-and-notice, not notice-and-takedown

Under sections 41.25 to 41.27 of the Copyright Act, when we receive a compliant notice we must:

1. forward it to the person who uploaded the content, as soon as feasible;
2. keep records identifying them for six months — twelve if court proceedings are started; and
3. tell you that it was forwarded, or why it could not be.

There is no legal requirement for us to remove the content, and a notice is not a request that we do. We may remove it under our own Terms, and we will where it is warranted. If a court finds content infringing, removal is not optional and we will remove it.

Sending a notice

Use the notice form, or write to copyright@rewound.gg.

A notice must state:

• who you are, and an address at which you can be reached;
• the work you claim is infringed, and your interest or right in it;
• the location of the material — the clip’s URL; and
• the infringement you are claiming, and the date and time it was found.

Your notice is forwarded verbatim, including your name and contact details, because that is what forwarding means. Don’t include anything you aren’t willing for the uploader to read.

Notices we will refuse

Since 2018 it has been prohibited for a notice to demand payment or offer a settlement (s. 41.25(3)). We won’t forward one — doing so would mean delivering a demand for money in our own envelope — and we’ll tell you why it was rejected. Rewrite it without the demand and send it again.

Sending a notice you know is wrong

A copyright notice is a serious document and it reaches a real person with your name on it. Claim something is infringing when you know it isn’t and you can be made to pay for it: under US law that is written down explicitly (17 U.S.C. §512(f)), and the person you accused can come after you for their costs and their legal fees. The same applies to a counter-notice you know to be false.

On our side it is simpler. We keep every notice we receive, and we stop accepting them from a sender who repeatedly misuses the process.

Anonymous uploads

Rewound allows uploading without an account. Where a notice names such a clip there is no subscriber to forward to, and we’ll tell you so. We still keep the records we do hold for the statutory period.

Repeat infringers

Accounts and devices that repeatedly attract upheld complaints have uploading disabled and are then permanently banned. The thresholds are published in the Acceptable Use Policy and they are enforced automatically rather than at our discretion.

US DMCA

We have a designated agent under the US DMCA, registered with the US Copyright Office as Rewound.gg, registration DMCA-1079392. The full record, including the postal address, is in the Office’s public directory. Notices under 17 U.S.C. §512 go to copyright@rewound.gg, which is the fastest way to reach us and the one we act on.

If your clip was named in a notice

You’ll receive the notice as it was sent. It is a claim, not a finding. You don’t have to respond to us, the clip isn’t automatically removed, and if you think the claim is wrong you can say so to the claimant directly — their contact details are in the notice. If you’d like our help understanding what has happened, write to support@rewound.gg.

If we did take your clip down

Sometimes we remove something: because a US DMCA notice named it, because a court decided it, or because it broke our own Terms. Where a DMCA notice was the reason, you can send a counter-notice saying we shouldn’t have. It has to include:

• your signature — typing your full name in the email counts;
• your name, postal address and phone number;
• which clip was removed, and the link it was at;
• a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you honestly believe it was removed by mistake or because it was misidentified;
• that you’ll accept legal papers from the claimant, and that you agree a US federal court can hear the dispute — the district you live in, or, if you’re outside the US, any district where we could be sued.

Send it to copyright@rewound.gg. We pass it to the claimant word for word, contact details and all, exactly as notices come the other way. If they don’t start a court case within 10 to 14 business days, we can put the clip back. That window is the one the US statute sets, not one we picked.

None of that applies to the Canadian process at the top of this page. There, nothing was taken down, so there is nothing to counter.