: Do I have to provide email and an agent for Copyright Complaints? I have a website and it works better for me to just have an online Copyright Complaint form, under DMCA Notice of Alleged

@Cody1181609

There is no specific requirement on how to receive takedown notices as long as third party authors can send you notices easily. Dropbox, for example, has an online form:



While 500px uses an email address only:



It's worth reading the current best practices on DMCA takedown notices (we researched DMCA here):


Make your process clear
Provide multiple links to your DMCA section, i.e. in your Terms agreement, in the footer of your website, in a FAQ section of your website.
Provide your contact information or a contact form
Help third parties authors to send you a complete report, i.e. users should provide the URL with the infringing content to you. Consider Dropbox's example from above.

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