DMCA Page — soundbuttons-click

The short version

This site does not own the audio it plays. Every clip is a third-party upload, collected from public soundboards, game captures and archives, and published with the title its uploader gave it. If you hold rights in a clip and you want it removed, send a notice to [email protected] and the row comes out.

The rest of this page explains what a notice has to contain, what happens after it arrives, how to dispute a removal, and what this site does about repeat infringers. It is written to be usable by a person who has never filed a takedown before, not only by a lawyer.

What this site is, in copyright terms

A soundboard like this one is an index with playback. It does not commission audio, it does not license audio, and it does not sell audio. What it does is make short clips playable in a browser, with a table that describes them and text that explains the family they belong to.

That description has consequences. The site cannot grant permission to reuse any clip, because it does not hold the rights to grant. It also cannot verify ownership of every row: the collection is large, the sources are scattered, and the provenance of a given file is often a filename. What it can do — and what this page is for — is remove a row quickly when the person who does hold the rights asks.

Before you send a notice

Three checks save everyone a round of email.

First, check whether the clip is actually on this site. The boards are public and a search for the title usually finds the row; if it is not here, a takedown notice costs you time and does nothing.

Second, consider whether you want the row removed or the title corrected. A clip that is mislabelled, or that credits the wrong game, is a correction and it is fixed faster than a takedown. The address for that is on the about page.

Third, if you are acting for someone else, make sure you are authorised to act. A notice sent on behalf of a rights holder by someone without authority is not a valid notice, and it slows the process down rather than speeding it up.

What a notice must contain

A takedown notice is a formal document, and the elements below are the ones the law expects. Send all of them, in one email, in plain text — no PDFs, no scans, no links to a form.

**Identification of the work.** Name the copyrighted work you say has been infringed. If you are reporting multiple clips from the same work, list them together. If the work is registered, the registration number helps but is not required.

**Identification of the material.** Give the exact URL of each row, not just the board. "The whole site" is not a location; a URL is. If a clip appears on several boards, list each one, because rows are removed individually.

**Your contact details.** Name, address, telephone and email. An email alone is usually enough to act, but a full notice includes all four.

**A good-faith statement.** A sentence saying you believe the use is not authorised by the rights holder, its agent, or the law. This is a statement of belief, not a proof, and it is the part that makes the notice more than a request.

**An accuracy and authority statement.** A sentence saying the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the rights holder or authorised to act for them, under penalty of perjury. In the United States this is 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3); other jurisdictions have equivalents, and a notice that includes this element is usable in most of them.

**Your signature.** A typed name at the end of the email is accepted. A physical signature is not needed.

A notice that contains all six elements in plain sentences is enough. It does not need letterhead, a template or legal phrasing, and a short email that answers each point is easier to act on than a scanned document that has to be read on a phone. What it must not be is vague: "remove my content" with no URLs is not a notice, it is a request to search on your behalf.

What happens after a notice arrives

The row is removed first and the discussion happens afterwards. That ordering is deliberate: a public page is the wrong place to leave a disputed file while two parties exchange emails.

In practice the sequence is:

1. The notice is acknowledged, usually within two business days, to the address it came from. 2. The row is removed from the source inventory and the site is rebuilt without it. The count in the page heading changes with the rebuild, because the count is derived from the table rather than typed by hand. 3. If the clip was submitted by someone who identified themselves, that person is told which row was removed and why, with a copy of the notice. 4. The removal is recorded in an internal log with the date, the URL and the basis. The audio itself is not kept.

If a notice is incomplete, the reply says which element is missing. The row may still come down while the paperwork is completed, because the site would rather under-publish than host something a rights holder has objected to.

Removal is usually visible to the person who reported it within a day, because the site is rebuilt from source rather than edited in place: a row that leaves the inventory leaves every page that rendered it, and the sitemap and llms.txt follow in the same build. Nothing is cached behind a login that would keep a removed row alive.

Disputing a removal

If you submitted a clip and you believe the removal was wrong — because you own it, because you have a licence, or because the notice misidentified the work — send a counter-notice to the same address.

A counter-notice needs your contact details, identification of the removed row, a statement under penalty of perjury that the removal was the result of mistake or misidentification, and your consent to the jurisdiction of a court for the district where you live, or where the site's operator is located if you are outside the country.

On receipt, the site will tell the original complainant that the row may be restored, and will restore it if no legal action is notified within the period the applicable law allows. Restoration is not automatic and it is not a judgment about who is right: it is the mechanism the law provides for a disputed removal.

Repeat infringers

An account-based service can terminate accounts. A site without accounts has to use a different mechanism, so this is the policy: where a source or a submitter is the subject of more than one valid takedown notice, further submissions from that source are refused.

The site also refuses submissions from sources it knows to be unauthorised re-upload channels, which is a judgement made on evidence — a channel whose entire catalogue is other people's audio, or a site that hosts nothing but re-uploads — rather than on suspicion.

What is not a takedown issue

Broken audio, a clip that does not play, a title that names the wrong scene, a duplicate row, a count that does not match its table: these are corrections. Send the URL to the corrections address and they are fixed in the next build.

Disagreement with the content of a board's text is also not a takedown. If a description is inaccurate, that is a correction; if it is opinion, it is labelled as such and it stays.

A request to remove a clip because it is embarrassing, unflattering or unfunny is not a copyright notice, and it will be treated as what it is — a complaint about content, answered on its merits, not a legal demand.

Misrepresentation

Sending a notice that misrepresents the facts can expose the sender to liability for damages, including costs and legal fees incurred by the site or by the person whose clip was removed. This is not a threat; it is the trade-off the law builds into the process so that takedown cannot be used as a weapon against speech.

If you are unsure whether you hold rights in a clip, ask first. A question costs nothing and a bad notice costs a lot.

Record keeping

The site keeps a log of notices received, rows removed, counter-notices and restorations, with dates. The log does not contain the removed audio and it is not published, because publishing a list of removed clips is itself a way of distributing them.

The log is what makes the repeat-infringer policy enforceable and what allows the site to answer a question months later about why a row disappeared.

Contact

Takedown notices, counter-notices and questions about this process: [email protected].

Put "Takedown" in the subject line and include the URLs in the body rather than as an attachment. Corrections go to the address on the about page, and submissions go to the submissions address there; sending a takedown to the wrong inbox is the most common reason a removal takes longer than it should.