CamPow Copyright Policy
CamPow respects the intellectual-property rights of camera owners and other rights holders. This page explains how to notify us of claimed copyright infringement, how we respond, how to send a counter-notice, and our policy on repeat infringers. It is intended to comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. §512.
If you own a camera and simply want it off CamPow, you don't need any of this. Use the Exclusion Request page. It requires no legal statements and is usually faster. This page is for anyone who prefers or requires the formal process.
How CamPow works
CamPow is a guide that points viewers' devices to publicly available camera streams hosted by their owners. CamPow does not host, store, copy, or transmit any stream. When you ask us to remove material, what we remove is the guide entry (the listing and link) for that camera.
Designated agent
Notices of claimed infringement and counter-notices should be sent to our designated agent:
[Agent Name] [CamPow Entity Name] [Postal Address] Email: [dmca@campow.tv] Phone: [Phone]
Our agent is registered with the U.S. Copyright Office's DMCA Designated Agent Directory. [Confirm registration before publishing.]
Sending a notice of claimed infringement
To be effective under §512(c)(3), your notice must be in writing and include:
- A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf.
- Identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed (for a live camera stream, a description of the camera and its location is sufficient).
- Identification of the material you want removed and information reasonably sufficient for us to locate it — for CamPow, the camera's name as it appears in the guide and/or its URL on your site.
- Your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
- 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.
- A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf.
Please note that under §512(f), a person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing may be liable for damages.
What we do when we receive a notice
We log every notice on receipt. If a notice substantially complies with the requirements above, we will remove the identified guide entry expeditiously — our target is the same business day, and never more than two business days — and confirm the removal to you. The camera is then recorded on our do-not-list record, marked as a copyright removal, so it is not re-added. If a notice is missing required elements, we will tell you what is missing and invite a corrected notice, and we will also point you to the Exclusion Request page as a faster alternative.
Copyright removals and owner exclusion requests are separate. A guide entry removed under this policy can be restored through the counter-notice process below or if you withdraw your notice in writing. A camera removed through an Exclusion Request is restored only at the camera owner's written request, and a counter-notice does not affect it. If a camera is subject to both, it stays off the guide until both have been lifted under their own rules. Camera owners who want sole control over reinstatement should use the Exclusion Request.
Counter-notices
If a guide entry you are responsible for has been removed in response to a notice and you believe the removal was a mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to our designated agent. Under §512(g)(3), a counter-notice must include:
- Your physical or electronic signature.
- Identification of the material that was removed and its location before removal.
- 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, address, and telephone number.
- A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or, if outside the United States, any judicial district in which CamPow may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original notice or their agent.
On receiving a compliant counter-notice, we will forward it to the original notifying party and inform them that we may restore the guide entry in 10 to 14 business days. We will restore the entry within that window unless the notifying party informs us that it has filed a court action seeking to restrain the activity. Restoration under this section lifts only the copyright removal; it does not lift an exclusion the camera owner requested separately.
Repeat infringers
CamPow will terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the ability of any party who is determined to be a repeat infringer to submit or have cameras listed on CamPow. This applies to anyone who submits camera sources to CamPow, including partners who represent that they hold rights they do not hold. We count notices that substantially comply with this policy and are not overturned by counter-notice.
Standard technical measures
CamPow accommodates and does not interfere with standard technical measures used by copyright owners to identify or protect copyrighted works. CamPow never removes watermarks, identifiers, or metadata from any stream and never circumvents access controls.
Records
We retain notices, counter-notices, related correspondence, and a record of the actions we took for [3 years] after the last action on a matter.
Trademark and other complaints
This page covers copyright. For trademark concerns, privacy concerns about what a camera shows, or any other complaint, contact [support@campow.tv] or use the Exclusion Request page.
Changes
We may update this policy. We will post the new version with a new "Last updated" date.