DMCA & Copyright Policy

Two things live on this page. What we own and how you may use it, and what to do if you believe something we published is yours. The second half is procedural and precise, because that is what the law requires there. Last updated: August 2026.

We are an Indian publisher whose hosting and distribution run through United States services, so we operate the takedown procedure in section 512 of the United States Copyright Act alongside our obligations under Indian copyright law.

What we own, and what reuse needs

The articles, headlines, photographs, charts, page design and code here belong to us or to the photographers, agencies and contributors we license from. Some of it we do not own outright and cannot sub-license at any price, which is worth knowing before you write asking for a film still.

Republishing an article in full, in any medium, needs our written permission. So does translating a piece and running it elsewhere, using our images, and building anything that reproduces our reporting for people who never arrive here. The scraping and model-training rules sit in our terms of service.

Quote us, link to us, ask before you lift us

Quotation is welcome and we would like more of it. Take a paragraph or two, put our name in the sentence rather than in a tag at the bottom of the page, and link to the piece you took it from. Aggregators and other newsrooms doing that will never hear from us.

The line is where the quote becomes a substitute for the article. Lifting the whole thing, or enough that nobody needs to click, is not quotation whatever credit is attached. Neither is rewriting our reporting sentence by sentence and crediting nobody, which our editorial standards call plagiarism when a staffer does it.

Permission is genuinely available and we say yes more often than not. Write with PERMISSION in the subject line and tell us which piece you want, where it will run, for how long, and whether the use is commercial. Educational and research use is usually free with credit and a link. Commercial republication is licensed for a modest fee, because charging makes the arrangement real rather than funding a newsroom from reprints.

If you believe we infringed your copyright

Write to us before doing anything else. We have taken material down where a complaint was right, and the fastest route there is a complete notice rather than a formal-looking one.

A valid notice under section 512(c)(3) has to contain all of the following. One missing element can make a notice legally ineffective, so please go through the list properly.

Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed, or a representative list where one notice covers several.
Identification of the material complained about: the full URL, and where on that page it sits.
Your name, postal address, telephone number and email address, so we can contact you and forward the notice as required.
A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
A statement that the information is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner or authorised to act for the owner.
Your physical or electronic signature.

Send it to support@cover365.in with DMCA at the front of the subject line. The designated agent for copyright notices at Cover365 is our managing editor, reachable there. Where a filing or a court requires the agent’s postal details, they are supplied on request.

What happens once a valid notice arrives

We acknowledge inside two working days and aim to decide inside five. Where the claim is clear we remove or disable the material first and argue afterwards. Where it looks like a rights dispute between two other parties rather than a straightforward lift, we may leave the page up while we check and say so, instead of going quiet.

If something comes down, the reporter and the editor who published it are told, and the page is replaced at the same address with a note saying material was removed after a copyright complaint. The link keeps working, under the rule that governs our corrections policy. Where the material came from a reader, we forward the notice to whoever posted it.

Counter-notification

If your material was removed and you think that was wrong, because you hold the rights, because you were licensed, or because the use was fair, send a counter-notice to the same address with COUNTER-NOTICE in the subject line. It needs your signature, identification of the removed material and where it appeared, your contact details, a statement under penalty of perjury that you believe in good faith the removal was a mistake, and your consent to the jurisdiction of a court in which the relevant party can be sued.

We forward a valid counter-notice to whoever complained. If they do not tell us they have filed for a court order within ten to fourteen business days, the material goes back up. That window is set by the statute rather than by us.

Repeat infringers, and notices that are not true

Where a comment account or a contributor posts infringing material more than once, we end the account. No strike count is published here, because a bot posting scraped galleries goes on the first offence while a reader who pasted an image without its credit gets an explanation and another chance. That judgement stays with the desk.