Designated agent
MyToonMaker is operated by IVANT LLC. Copyright notices concerning material on mytoonmaker.com should be sent to the agent designated to receive them:
Ivan Tsvetkov, Designated Agent
IVANT LLC
914 Laura Street, Clearwater, FL 33755, United States
Telephone +1 727-488-4363
Email info@mytoonmaker.com
U.S. Copyright Office registration DMCA-1079451
Email reaches us fastest. The postal address is given because the law requires it, and because some notices arrive by mail.
Sending an infringement notice
Write to the agent — by email, by post, or with the form below — and include all six of the following. A notice missing any of them may not be effective, and we may come back to you for what is absent.
- Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed. If several works are covered by one notice, a representative list of them.
- Identification of the material on MyToonMaker you believe infringes, described well enough for us to find it — a link, a project or image reference, or a precise description of where it appears.
- Your contact details: name, postal address, telephone number and email address.
- A statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
- A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act on the owner's behalf.
- Your physical or electronic signature.
Report copyright infringement
This form sends your notice to the designated agent and records it. Every field is required, and everything you write here reaches only us — nothing on this form is published. You may write to info@mytoonmaker.com instead if you prefer.
How this works
What happens after a notice
We read every notice a person sends. Where a notice is valid and the material is identified clearly enough to act on, we remove or disable access to that material, and we tell the account that made it what was removed and why. We record the date and what was done. Where a notice is unclear or incomplete, we ask for what is missing rather than guess at what should come down.
We may remove or disable access to disputed material while a matter is being worked out. Doing so is not a finding that anyone infringed anything; it is how the process is meant to work, and the counter-notice below exists precisely so the other side is heard.
Counter-notification
If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you may send a counter-notification to the same agent. Include:
- Identification of the material that was removed, and where it appeared before it was removed.
- 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, postal address and telephone number.
- Your consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the district where you live — or, if you are outside the United States, any judicial district in which MyToonMaker may be found — and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice.
- Your physical or electronic signature.
A counter-notification does not put the material back by itself. We forward it to the person who sent the original notice. If they do not tell us they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the activity, we may restore the material after the statutory waiting period — not less than ten and not more than fourteen business days after we receive your counter-notification. Nothing is restored earlier than that, and nothing is restored automatically.
Notices sent in bad faith
Under 17 U.S.C. §512(f), a person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing — or that it was removed by mistake — may be liable for damages, including costs and legal fees, to the person harmed by that misrepresentation. This applies to notices and counter-notices alike. If you are unsure whether what you are looking at is an infringement, take advice before sending.
Repeat infringers
MyToonMaker may suspend or terminate, in appropriate circumstances, accounts that repeatedly infringe. We keep a record of confirmed copyright actions against an account so that decision is made on history rather than on impression. Only confirmed administrative or DMCA outcomes are recorded; an automated safeguard declining to draw something is not an infringement and is never counted as one.
One honest caveat
This page describes how we handle copyright complaints. It is not legal advice, and having a procedure is not the same as a court agreeing with how we applied it. If your matter is serious, talk to a lawyer rather than relying on a web page.