Copyright and IP Policy
How to report infringing content on Cutaway, what we do about it, and how to dispute a removal.
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Our position
Cutaway respects intellectual property and expects its users to do the same. Uploading or generating material you do not have the rights to breaks the Terms of Service.
Content on Cutaway is private to the account that created it unless its owner turns on a share link. Most infringement complaints will therefore concern a shared project.
Reporting infringement
For us to act, a notice needs to include all of the following:
- Identification of the work you say is infringed — the registration, the URL where it can be seen, or a description sufficient to identify it.
- Identification of the material on Cutaway you say infringes it, with the share link or URL, so we can find it.
- Your name, postal address, email address and telephone number.
- A statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the rights holder, its agent, or the law.
- A statement that the information in your notice is accurate, and that you are the rights holder or authorised to act on their behalf.
- Your physical or electronic signature.
Trademark complaints should identify the mark, the registration where one exists, the goods or services it covers, and where the mark appears in the content.
Complaints about a person's likeness, voice or personality rights should identify the person, where they appear, and your authority to act for them. These are handled under the Acceptable Use Policy as well as this one.
Please do not send incomplete or automated notices. Knowingly making a false claim of infringement can expose you to liability for damages.
What we do with a notice
- We acknowledge receipt.
- If the notice is complete and the claim is credible, we disable access to the material — normally by revoking the share link, and by removing the content where it is warranted.
- We tell the account holder what was removed and why, and pass on your notice so they can respond.
- We keep a record of the notice and what we did.
We act on complete notices without deciding who is right. Removal is not a finding that you infringed; it is how a small provider handles a credible complaint quickly.
Disputing a removal
If your content was removed and you believe that was a mistake or that your use is authorised, write to legal@usecutaway.com with:
- Identification of the material that was removed and where it was.
- A statement, under penalty of perjury where that applies to you, that you believe in good faith it was removed as a result of a mistake or misidentification.
- Your name, address, email and telephone number.
- Your consent to the jurisdiction of the courts identified in the Terms of Service.
- Your signature.
We will pass a valid counter-notice to the complainant. If they do not tell us they are pursuing the matter within a reasonable period, we may restore the content.
Repeat infringers
Accounts that are the subject of repeated, credible infringement notices are terminated. Termination on this ground does not entitle the account holder to a refund.
AI output and intellectual property
Cutaway's output is produced by generative models operated by third parties. Cutaway does not warrant that output is free of similarity to existing works, and generated output is not guaranteed to be unique — the Terms of Service say so, and it bears repeating here.
Whether AI-assisted output attracts copyright protection, and who owns it, varies between countries and is unsettled in many of them. Cutaway does not claim ownership of your output, but it cannot promise the output is protectable, nor that it does not resemble something else. If a video matters commercially, have it reviewed.
If output ever appears to reproduce a recognisable third-party work, brand or person, do not publish it. Regenerate it, and tell us so we can look at it.
Contact
Notices and questions: legal@usecutaway.com. Postal: [OPERATOR LEGAL NAME — SET BEFORE LAUNCH], [OPERATOR ADDRESS — SET BEFORE LAUNCH], Rwanda.