# DMCA / Copyright Notice

Grablytic respects the intellectual property rights of others, and we expect
our users to do the same. This page explains what Grablytic is, what we ask
of users, and how copyright holders can contact us.

This is a good-faith notice, not legal advice and not a binding legal
document. It does not create a formal repeat-infringer or counter-notification
procedure — Grablytic is a client-side tool and hosts no user content to take
down (see below).

## What Grablytic is

Grablytic is a **general-purpose media tool**: a graphical interface and
automation layer built on top of the open-source
[yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) engine, which supports thousands of
sites. Like the video recorders before it, a general-purpose downloading tool
has many legitimate uses — accessibility (e.g. playback-speed adjustment),
journalism and fact-checking, preserving evidence, and downloading
Creative Commons-licensed or public-domain works, among others. This is the
same position the open-source community and the EFF defended for this category
of tooling (see the EFF's account of the 2020 youtube-dl dispute:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/github-reinstates-youtube-dl-after-riaas-abuse-dmca).

## Your responsibility as a user

Whether a particular download is lawful depends on **your** local laws, the
source site's terms of service, and the rights attached to the specific
content. Grablytic cannot make that determination for you.

- ✅ Downloading your **own** uploads, Creative Commons / public-domain works,
  or anything you have permission to save is generally fine.
- ⚠️ Downloading copyrighted material **without permission** may infringe
  copyright in your jurisdiction — even if the software technically allows it.
- **You are responsible for your own use** of Grablytic and for complying
  with applicable law.

## Non-affiliation

Grablytic is an independent open-source project. It is **not affiliated
with, endorsed by, or sponsored by** YouTube, Google, Twitch, or any other
platform it can access, nor by the yt-dlp project itself. All trademarks and
platform names belong to their respective owners.

## Reporting copyright concerns

If you are a copyright holder (or authorized to act for one) and believe
Grablytic itself — this repository, its releases, or its documentation —
contains material that infringes your rights, please contact us:

- 📧 **xianzo.help@gmail.com**

To help us act quickly, please include:

1. Identification of the copyrighted work (or a representative list).
2. Identification of the allegedly infringing material in this project
   (file path, release asset, or URL).
3. Your contact information (name and an address, phone number, and/or email).
4. A statement that you have a **good-faith belief** the use is not authorized
   by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
5. A statement that the information in your notice is accurate and, under
   penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act for the owner.

## What happens next

We will review every legitimate report sent to the address above in good
faith and take appropriate action — which may include removing or modifying
the material at issue, depending on what the review finds. Please note that
because Grablytic runs entirely on the user's own device, we have no ability
to remove or disable content on third-party platforms or on users' devices;
reports should therefore concern material in this project itself.

## Related

- [README](README.md) — project overview and documentation index.