DMCA Relay acts as your registered DMCA agent — receiving notices, screening out the noise, and forwarding only the ones that matter. Your personal info stays off public records.
Receive. Verify. Relay.
Four steps, no ongoing maintenance on your end.
You list DMCA Relay as your designated agent with the U.S. Copyright Office. We handle the filing — fees included.
Copyright holders send takedown notices to us directly. Our contact information is listed publicly — yours never is.
We screen each notice for completeness and legal validity. Defective, incomplete, or clearly invalid notices are rejected.
Only notices that meet DMCA requirements reach your inbox — with clear context so you know exactly what action is needed.
Any site that hosts content — yours, your users', or both — needs a registered DMCA agent to qualify for safe harbor protection.
Personal sites, blogs, and portfolio pages with comment sections or user submissions.
Forums, Discord-alternative communities, and niche social platforms with user-generated content.
Web hosts and storage services that need compliant agent coverage for their customers' content.
Products where users can upload, post, or share content — from file storage to marketplaces.
One annual fee covers the full service — no piecemeal add-ons.
Our contact info is listed publicly. Your personal address and phone number stay off the U.S. Copyright Office directory.
Incomplete and defective notices are rejected before they reach you. You only hear about notices that require real action.
We file your agent registration with the U.S. Copyright Office on your behalf. Filing fees are included in your plan.
We provide the required safe harbor verbiage your site needs to display — copy and paste, done.
A hosted DMCA submission form you can link to from your site — directs filers to the right place automatically.
Once registered, there's nothing to maintain day-to-day. Notices are handled in the background until something real comes through.
If one of your users disputes a takedown, we cover that side too — screening and forwarding valid counter-notices through the same process.
Annual plans. No surprise fees for normal usage.
Great for new or low-traffic sites that expect few or no notices
Best for most sites - covers a standard volume of incoming notices
High-volume sites or platforms needing custom coverage
All plans include U.S. Copyright Office filing fees and renewals for as long as you're a customer. Changes you request to your directory listing later, like adding a new site, are a one-time $9 per update. Multi-year discounts available — ask us.
A DMCA agent (also called a "designated agent") is a person or service listed with the U.S. Copyright Office as the point of contact for DMCA takedown notices on behalf of your website. The DMCA requires online service providers to register a designated agent to be eligible for safe harbor protection — meaning you can't be held liable for infringing content your users upload, as long as you respond appropriately to valid notices.
If your site hosts any content that isn't solely yours — user comments, uploads, forum posts, embedded links — then yes, registering a DMCA agent is the only way to qualify for the DMCA's safe harbor provisions. Without a registered agent, you lose that protection entirely.
We review it for legal completeness and validity. Notices missing required elements — like a sworn statement, specific identification of the infringing material, or a proper signature — are rejected and the filer is notified. Only notices that fully comply with DMCA requirements are forwarded to you, along with a summary of what's being requested.
They can file a DMCA counter-notice. We review counter-notices the same way we review the original notices — checking for the required statements and signature — and forward valid ones to you and the original filer. From there, the standard 10 business day waiting period applies before content can be restored, giving the original filer a chance to pursue further action if they choose.
No. For security reasons, we don't have access to any of your backend systems or services. We forward you the notice, and you make the call on removal.
This also builds in an extra check. While we're careful to only pass along complete DMCA notices, you may be aware of circumstances that make removal unwarranted. Forwarding the notice and letting you make the final determination covers those niche cases.
After signing up, we register with the U.S. Copyright Office on your behalf and provide you with the exact verbiage to add to your website's DMCA policy. The whole process takes a few business days. You don't need to create your own Copyright Office account and your information is never shared publicly.
A single registration covers one legal entity. If all your domains operate under the same entity (e.g., one LLC), they can typically be covered under one registration. If you operate separate legal entities, each needs its own registration. Contact us if you're unsure — we're happy to clarify before you sign up.
If the new site is run by the same legal entity, we can add it to your existing registration and cover it under your current plan. The same goes for other changes to your listing in the Copyright Office's designated agent directory, like updating your company name or removing a site you no longer run.
Each update is a one-time $9 charge. That covers the Copyright Office's amendment fee and the work of refiling your listing. If you have several changes, send them together and we'll file them as a single $9 update. We'll always let you know about the fee and confirm with you before charging your payment method. Your initial registration and renewals are always included in your plan, and so is any change we make on our end.
No. We only bill for genuine, good-faith DMCA notices — submissions that clearly identify a specific claim, a specific work, and the infringing material. Spam, empty submissions, or junk sent to your web form or email address never counts toward your usage and is never billed, and it doesn't eat into a plan's included monthly notices either. Physical mail works the same way; it costs money and effort to send, so it's rarely targeted the way email and web forms are, and we handle everything that arrives by mail on our end.
In the unlikely event your form or email starts attracting an unusual, disproportionate volume of spam, we'll reach out to talk about mitigation — not send a surprise bill.
No. DMCA Relay is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. We provide a compliance service — receiving, screening, and forwarding DMCA notices according to the statute's requirements. For legal advice specific to your situation, consult a qualified attorney.