DMCA & Copyright Policy

1. Our Commitment

ModelNexus respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects its users to do the same. We respond to clear notices of alleged copyright infringement in accordance with the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 17 U.S.C. § 512, and with applicable EU law.

2. Filing a Copyright Notice (DMCA Takedown)

If you believe that content on the Service infringes your copyright, you may send a written notice to our designated agent (see Section 6). For your notice to be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), it must include all of the following:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed (or, for multiple works, a representative list).
3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate it — typically the full URL of the page on the Service.
4. Your contact information: name, address, telephone number, and email address.
5. A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on behalf of the owner.

Incomplete notices will not be processed. False or fraudulent notices may subject you to liability under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f).

3. Counter-Notice

If you believe your content was removed in error, you may submit a counter-notice including:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material that was removed and the location at which 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 judicial district in which your address is located (or, if outside the U.S., of any judicial district in which the Service operator may be found).

Upon receipt of a valid counter-notice, we may reinstate the removed material after 10 to 14 business days unless the original claimant files a court action.

4. Repeat Infringer Policy

Accounts that are the subject of repeated valid infringement notices will be terminated at our discretion. We reserve the right to terminate any account for any reason, including a single particularly egregious violation.

5. AI Models and Training Data

AI model files uploaded to the Service may have been trained on copyrighted material. If you believe that a model hosted here reproduces, emits, or memorizes your copyrighted work in a way that infringes your rights, you may submit a DMCA notice following the procedure above. Please include in your notice specific examples or prompts that demonstrate the alleged infringement.

Uploaders are solely responsible for ensuring that their models were trained on data they had the legal right to use, and that their models do not generate content infringing third-party rights.

6. Designated Agent

Send all copyright notices and counter-notices to our designated agent:

For notices concerning content hosted in the European Union, you may also reference procedures under the EU Digital Services Act (Regulation 2022/2065), which entered into force in 2024, and your national implementing legislation.

7. Other Rights Violations

For non-copyright concerns (trademark, defamation, privacy, personality rights, non-consensual content), please contact us at [TO FILL: contact email] with a clear description of the material, its location, and the nature of the alleged violation.