Copyright and DMCA

How to tell us that something here infringes your copyright, and how we handle it. If you need an intimate image of yourself removed, that is a separate and faster process — it is not a copyright matter and you should not use the notice below.

Copyright in AI-generated work

Everything on watchaiporn is required to be entirely AI-generated (see the content rules and our 2257 statement). That affects what a copyright claim over this material can actually be about, so it is worth setting out plainly.

In the United States, copyright protects work made by a human author. The Copyright Office's January 2025 report on the copyrightability of AI outputs, and the D.C. Circuit's March 2025 decision in Thaler v. Perlmutter, both confirm that material generated entirely by an AI system is not protected by copyright, and that writing a prompt — however long or carefully chosen — does not by itself make someone the author of what the model returns.

Two practical consequences:

• "Someone re-uploaded my AI video" is often not a copyright claim. If the work is purely a model output, there may be no copyright to enforce, and we may not be able to act on a DMCA notice about it. We can still act under our terms of service where an upload is someone else's work passed off as the uploader's own.
• AI output can still infringe. A generated video can reproduce protectable elements of an existing work — a copyrighted character, a recognisable design, footage or images it was built from — and a work that mixes human and AI contributions is protected in its human parts. Those are ordinary copyright claims and the notice process below applies to them normally.

If you are unsure which of these describes your situation, send the notice anyway and tell us what you own. We would rather read a notice that turns out to be misdirected than miss a real one.

Sending a copyright notice

Email watchaiporn@protonmail.com with the subject line DMCA notice. To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), your notice must include all of the following:

1. Your physical or electronic signature, as the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed or as a person authorised to act on that owner's behalf.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed. If several works on this site are covered by one notice, a representative list is enough.
3. Identification of the material you want removed, with enough detail for us to find it. Please include the full page URL of each video — a channel name or a search result is not enough.
4. Your contact details: name, postal address, telephone number and email address.
5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use complained of 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 owner of the right concerned or authorised to act for that owner.

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

What we do with it

We review notices in the order they arrive and act expeditiously on ones that are complete and appear valid. When we remove or disable something we take reasonable steps to tell the uploader, and we pass on the notice so that they can respond to it.

We keep a record of notices we receive. Accounts that repeatedly upload infringing material are terminated, in line with 17 U.S.C. § 512(i) and our terms of service.

Counter-notice

If your video was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you can send a counter-notice to the same address with the subject line DMCA counter-notice. 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 where it appeared before removal.
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, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the district where you live — or, if you are 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 sent the original notice.

We forward valid counter-notices to the person who sent the original notice. If they do not tell us within 10 business days that they have filed a court action, we may restore the material, normally between 10 and 14 business days after we receive your counter-notice.

False claims

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), knowingly misrepresenting that material is infringing — or that it was removed by mistake — can make you liable for damages, including costs and legal fees. Both the notice and the counter-notice are sworn statements. Please do not send either one to win an argument, to unmask an anonymous uploader, or to remove something you simply dislike.

Intimate images of you, and deepfakes

This is not a copyright process and the form above does not apply. It is faster and it takes priority over everything else in our queue.

If any content here appears to show you — or someone you are authorised to act for — nude or in a sexual act, and you did not consent to it, email watchaiporn@protonmail.com with the subject line URGENT: non-consensual image, or use the Report button on the video and choose the option for a real person. Include the page URL and enough detail for us to identify the content. You do not need to own any copyright in the material, and you do not need to prove anything about how it was made.

We remove content covered by such a request, and any identical copies we know of, within 48 hours. This is what the US TAKE IT DOWN Act requires of platforms from 19 May 2026, and it applies to AI-generated "digital forgeries" exactly as it applies to real photographs.

Content of this kind is also prohibited outright by our content rules, whoever reports it. Every upload must be entirely AI-generated and must not depict a real, identifiable person. In the United Kingdom, creating a sexually explicit image of a real person without their consent — or asking someone else to create one — has been a criminal offence since 6 February 2026 under section 138 of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025. We will remove this material and terminate the account, and we are not the right venue for an argument about whether a likeness is close enough.

If you believe someone in the content is a minor, report it immediately using the same address and subject line URGENT. We act on these before anything else.

Name and likeness

Claims that content uses your name, face or voice without permission are not copyright claims either, but we act on them. Email the same address with the URL and a description of what is being used, and tell us who you are. Our content rules already prohibit depicting real, identifiable people.

Contact

All of the above goes to watchaiporn@protonmail.com. Please use the subject lines given above — they determine how quickly a message is seen.

This page explains our process. It is not legal advice, and nothing here waives any right or defence available to us.