Copyright & DMCA

TipTap Games is operated by Quads Lab LLC.

If something on TipTap Games uses your copyrighted work without permission, this page is how you tell us. It also covers what happens next: how the creator can respond, and what happens to an account that keeps receiving claims.

Designated agent

Two different things

There are two ways a copyright problem reaches us, and they are not the same:

• Anyone can report a game. Playing a game and picking “Copyright or trademark” tells a moderator something looks wrong. It is a tip, and it does not have to come from the rights-holder.
• A rights-holder can file a formal notice. That is the process on this page. It is a sworn document, it carries legal weight, and it is the one that starts the process below.

Filing a notice

A notice has to contain all of the following. The form collects each one; if you write to the agent instead, include them yourself, because a notice missing any of them may not be effective.

1. Your electronic signature — your full legal name, typed.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed.
3. Identification of the material you say infringes it, precise enough for us to find it — the game, and what in the game.
4. Your address, telephone number and email address.
5. A statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act for them.

Misrepresenting that material is infringing carries liability for damages, including costs and legal fees. If you are unsure whether what you are looking at is infringement — or whether it is fair use — take advice before filing.

What happens next

• A person reviews the notice. Nothing is removed automatically — a form on the internet does not take a game off the site by itself.
• If we act on it, the game comes off the feed and the creator is told what was claimed and who claimed it.
• The creator can respond with a counter-notice.
• Upheld claims count towards the repeat-infringer policy below.

If your game was taken down

You can file a counter-notice. It is a sworn statement that the material was removed by mistake or misidentification — not an appeal, and not a request for a moderator to reconsider. It has different consequences:

• It is sent to the person who filed the notice, including your name and contact details. There is no anonymous counter-notice.
• You consent to the jurisdiction of a federal court and to accepting service of process from them.
• If they do not tell us they have gone to court, your game goes back up.
• Filing one is not held against you. It is not a strike, it does not affect how your games are reviewed, and it is not recorded as a moderation action.

If your game was taken down for any other reason, you want the appeal in your creator dashboard, not this.

Repeat infringers

An account that keeps receiving upheld copyright claims loses access. A claim counts only once a person has reviewed it and acted on it — a filed notice is not a strike, and a claim withdrawn or answered by a successful counter-notice stops counting.

• 1 upheld claim — you are told what was claimed and how to respond.
• 2 upheld claims — final warning.
• 3 upheld claims — your account is reviewed for termination. A person makes that decision; it is never automatic.

Claims stop counting 365 days after they are made.