DMCA Notice and Takedown Policy

Naughty Games (naughty.games), operated by Vedia Games, respects the intellectual property rights of others and responds to notices of claimed copyright infringement in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. 512).

What we publish

Naughty Games is a database of adult video games. Catalogue entries carry a game's title, cover art, screenshots, and a description, and link out to the developer's own store page or site. We do not host or distribute the games themselves. If a game file or a piece of media is hosted somewhere else, a notice sent to us can only reach the listing and images on naughty.games; the host of the underlying file has to be contacted separately.

Designated agent

Send notices of claimed infringement to:

• Copyright Agent, Vedia Games
• Email: [email protected]
• Subject line: DMCA notice

Email is the fastest route and the one we monitor. Postal correspondence is available on request by writing to the address above.

What a valid notice must contain

To be effective under 17 U.S.C. 512(c)(3), your notice must include all six of the following:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, or of a person authorised to act on the owner's behalf.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed, or, if several works are covered by a single notice, a representative list of those works.
3. Identification of the material you claim is infringing, with information reasonably sufficient for us to locate it. In practice this means the full URL of the page on naughty.games and, where the page carries several images, which image you mean.
4. Your contact details: name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or are authorised to act on the owner's behalf.

A notice missing any of these may not be effective, and we may come back to you for the missing part before acting.

What we do when we receive a notice

• We acknowledge the notice by email.
• We expeditiously remove or disable access to the material identified, in most cases within two business days of receipt.
• We record the notice, and we notify the developer or submitter whose material was removed, passing on your notice so that they can file a counter-notice if they wish.
• If the complaint concerns an entire catalogue entry, the entry is unpublished rather than edited, and the outbound link with it.

Counter-notice

If your material was removed and you believe the removal was a mistake or a misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to [email protected]. Under 17 U.S.C. 512(g)(3) it must include:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material that was removed and the location at which it appeared before it was removed.
3. A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
4. Your name, address, and telephone number.
5. A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the United States Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located, or, if your address is outside the United States, of any judicial district in which we may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice or their agent.

We forward a valid counter-notice to the original complainant. If they do not notify us within ten business days that they have filed an action seeking a court order, we may restore the material within ten to fourteen business days of receiving the counter-notice.

Repeat infringers

We terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts and listings of repeat infringers. In practice: a developer or submitter whose material is the subject of repeated valid notices has their submissions blocked and their remaining listings removed, and a community account used to post infringing material repeatedly is closed.

Misrepresentation

Under 17 U.S.C. 512(f), any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that it was removed by mistake, may be liable for damages, including costs and legal fees. Please make sure the material really is yours and that the use is not covered by fair use or a licence before you send a notice.

See also our Terms of Service, our 18 U.S.C. 2257 compliance statement, and our DSA notice for reports of illegal content under EU law.