DMCA Notice & Takedown Policy

USCO Designated Agent Registration: DMCA-1072519 · Last updated 2026-05-09 · Renewal due 2029-05-09

1. Our position

Saidly is operated by Saidly LLC, a Kentucky limited liability company (KY entity number 1579133), and is committed to respecting the intellectual property rights of others. We have registered a designated agent with the U.S. Copyright Office under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c) and we follow the notice-and-takedown procedures set out below.

Saidly is a search-and-discovery service that indexes spoken-word content from publicly available sources — primarily YouTube videos (embedded via the YouTube iframe player using the publisher's own player) and podcast audio (linked to the publisher's RSS-distributed enclosure URL). We do not host third-party audio or video files on our own servers.

2. How to submit a DMCA takedown notice

If you believe content surfaced by Saidly infringes a copyright you own or are authorized to enforce, send a written notice to our designated agent that includes all of the following:

  1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner.
  2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed (or a representative list, if multiple works at one site are involved).
  3. Identification of the specific material on Saidly that is claimed to be infringing — the result page URL, the indexed utterance ID, and (where applicable) the source URL we have linked to.
  4. Your contact information: name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
  5. A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of the material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law. Per Lenz v. Universal Music Corp., 815 F.3d 1145 (9th Cir. 2016), copyright owners are required to consider whether the use is fair use before sending a takedown notice.
  6. A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that you are the owner or are authorized to act on behalf of the owner.

Send notices to:

DMCA Designated Agent (USCO Registration DMCA-1072519) Carlos Acevedo, Designated Agent for Saidly LLC 1935 S Hurstbourne Parkway #1240 Louisville, KY 40220 United States Email: dmca@saidly.org

3. Our response timeline

Upon receipt of a compliant notice, we commit to:

Materially deficient notices (missing signature, missing identification of the work, no good-faith statement, etc.) will be returned with a description of what is missing.

4. Counter-notification

If you believe content was de-indexed in error or as a result of misidentification, you may send a counter-notification under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g). Your counter-notification must contain:

  1. Your physical or electronic signature.
  2. Identification of the material that was removed and the location at which it appeared before removal.
  3. A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification.
  4. Your name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district in which the address is located, or if your address is outside the United States, for any judicial district in which we may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original notification or that person's agent.

Upon receipt of a valid counter-notification, we will forward a copy to the original complainant and may restore the material in not less than 10 nor more than 14 business days following receipt, unless we receive notice that the complainant has filed an action seeking a court order against the user.

5. Repeat-infringer policy

In accordance with 17 U.S.C. § 512(i), Saidly maintains a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users (or, where applicable, the indexing of source channels/feeds) that are repeat infringers. Determinations are made by us in our reasonable discretion, on the basis of all available information, including the number of valid takedown notices we have received with respect to a given user or source.

6. Misrepresentation

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing may be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys' fees incurred by the alleged infringer or by us, as a result of our reliance on such misrepresentation in removing or disabling access to the material.

7. Public-figure scope and editorial purpose

Saidly indexes only utterances by US public figures from publicly available sources, in service of news reporting, research, comment, criticism, and other transformative editorial purposes. We do not index or surface utterances by private individuals. If you believe an indexed person should not be classified as a public figure for the purposes of this service, you may use the takedown process above; alternatively, requests from individuals seeking removal of their own utterances may be sent to privacy@saidly.org for expedited review.

8. Contact

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