Copyright Policy

1 Our position

Architectena respects copyright. We respond to valid takedown notices promptly, and we require every user to respect the intellectual property of others. Posting work you did not create — without permission and without credit — is a violation of our Community Guidelines and may result in removal of the content and termination of your account.

2 Filing a takedown notice

To report content on Architectena that you believe infringes your copyright, send an email to info@architectena.com with the subject line "Copyright Notice". Notices that omit the required elements below may be returned for clarification before we can act on them.

3 Required elements

Your notice must include each of the following. We ask for these because they are what we need in order to act, and because they are modelled on the elements the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act asks for — but this is our own process, not a statutory DMCA procedure:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner — or of someone authorised to act on their behalf.
2. Clear identification of the copyrighted work you claim is being infringed (title, registration details if any, or a link to the original).
3. Identification of the infringing material on Architectena — please include the full URL of each page or upload.
4. Your contact information: full name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use of the material is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or are authorised to act on the owner's behalf.

4 Our response

We aim to review copyright notices promptly, and normally within five business days of receipt. If the notice is valid we will remove the material or disable access to it, and we will tell the member who uploaded it what was removed and why, giving them a copy of the notice with personal contact details redacted. While we are reviewing a notice we may restrict access to the material. We may also suspend or terminate the account of someone who repeatedly infringes.

5 Counter-notice

If you believe your content was removed in error, you may file a counter-notice by emailing info@architectena.com with the subject line "Counter-Notice". Your counter-notice 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 (the original URL on Architectena).
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 full name, address, and telephone number.

We will pass your counter-notice to the person who sent the original notice, with your contact details redacted unless you ask us to include them, and we aim to decide within five business days. If we are satisfied the material was removed by mistake or misidentification, we restore it. If the two sides still disagree about who owns the work, we are not a court and cannot rule on ownership: the material stays down until you resolve it between you or a court decides, and we will say so plainly rather than pretend to adjudicate.

6 Repeat infringer policy

We keep a record of the copyright notices we accept against an account. Where an account is the subject of repeated valid notices we will suspend it, and we may terminate it. We look at each case rather than applying a fixed number of strikes, because a genuine dispute over authorship and deliberate copying are not the same thing, and we would rather judge them differently. Architects whose work has been used without permission before can contact us and we will do our best to help.

7 Note for non-US users

Architectena Co. is based in Cairo, Egypt and serves a global community, so we handle copyright requests from anywhere through the single process on this page rather than running a separate procedure per country. The "penalty of perjury" wording above comes from US practice; if it has no meaning in your jurisdiction, an equivalent statement of good faith and of ownership under the law of your own country is acceptable. Whichever wording you use, making a knowingly false claim may make you liable for the costs it causes.