Copyright & DMCA

Email [email protected] with Copyright claim in the subject line. A real person reads it.

Send it from your company address where you have one. A notice from an official domain is far quicker to act on than one from a free mailbox, because most of the work in handling these is establishing that the sender is who they say they are.

A notice has to contain all six of the following. This is not bureaucracy for its own sake: these are the elements set out in 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), and a notice missing any of them is one we cannot properly act on.

1. The link. The full address of the listing or image on gamersmandi.com. One notice can cover several, as long as each is listed separately.
2. What of yours is in it. Identify the work being infringed — the artwork, the photograph, the text — clearly enough that we can tell which part of the listing you mean.
3. Proof you can make the claim. Either that you own the copyright, or that you are authorised to act for the owner.
4. Your contact details. Full legal name, company if you have one, postal address and an email address we can reply to.
5. A good-faith statement that the use complained of is not authorised by you, your agent, or the law.
6. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act for them.

We acknowledge every notice within one working day.

Where the notice is complete and the claim is credible, the listing comes down straight away and is looked at afterwards, not the other way round. Leaving disputed material up while we deliberate is the part that causes real harm to a rights holder.

We tell the seller what was removed and why, and pass on your notice so they can answer it. A decision follows within 5 working days.

If your listing was removed and you believe that was a mistake — the artwork is yours, you have a licence, or it is fair use — reply to the email we sent you and say so.

A counter-notice needs:

1. Which listing was removed, and what was in it.
2. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you believe in good faith it was removed by mistake or misidentification.
3. Your full name, address and a contact email.

We pass a counter-notice to the person who complained. If they do not take the matter further, the listing can go back up. We are not the court here: where two people both claim the same work in good faith, the disagreement is theirs to resolve and we hold the position until they do.

A seller who keeps posting other people's work loses their selling privileges. We count upheld notices against an account, and the account is closed once the pattern is clear rather than after a fixed number — one deliberate theft of a publisher's key art is treated more seriously than three careless screenshots.

Closing an account does not touch money already earned on completed orders. It is a ban on selling, not a fine.

A takedown notice is a legal document. Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), somebody who knowingly misrepresents that material is infringing can be liable for the costs and legal fees caused, including the seller's.

We mention this because the obvious abuse of a takedown route on a marketplace is a seller using it against a competitor. We check who is complaining, and we will say no to a notice that does not hold up.

Gamers Mandi operates from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, and Pakistani copyright law is what governs the business. We follow the DMCA process anyway: our hosting and CDN providers are United States companies who are bound by it, it is the process rights holders already recognise, and a legitimate complaint deserves a fast answer whichever statute compels it.

Last updated 22 August 2026.