DMCA & Copyright Policy
Our position on copyright
MIND CRON respects the rights of creators and expects the same in return. The words, images, graphics and layout we publish are ours or are used with permission, and reporting across ten sections is expensive to produce. If you own material you believe has been used here without the right to do so, this page tells you how to have it taken down. It also tells you what we do when someone copies our work, because the same principle runs in both directions.
This policy follows the notice-and-takedown approach set out in the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which is the framework most widely recognised online. Our readers and the rights holders who write to us are spread across many countries. If you are outside the United States, the same process works, and we act on valid notices under the equivalent law that applies to us.
Fair quotation and what goes beyond it
Quoting a passage from one of our articles with credit and a link back is fair, welcome and how journalism is supposed to spread. Linking to us is always fine. Building on a fact we reported, in your own words and with attribution, is the ordinary business of the web and needs no permission from anyone.
Republishing an article in full, lifting our images, or scraping the site to rebuild our reporting elsewhere is not fair use, whether a person or a machine does it. Copying does not become permitted because it is done at scale. If you want more than a fair quotation, ask about licensing at support@mindcron.com and we will usually say yes on reasonable terms.
Sending a takedown notice
If you are a rights holder, or an agent acting for one, and you believe material on MIND CRON infringes your copyright, send a written notice to support@mindcron.com with DMCA at the front of the subject line. To be actionable, and to be valid under the law, the notice needs to contain the following.
- Your physical or electronic signature, as the owner or a person authorised to act for the owner.
- Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed, with a link to the original if it is online.
- The exact location of the material on our site, with a direct link to the page, so we can find it without guessing.
- Your name, postal address, telephone number and email address, so we can reach you and pass your details on if the law requires.
- A statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised by the owner, its agent or the law.
- A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or are authorised to act for the owner.
A notice missing any of these may be one we cannot act on. False claims of infringement carry legal consequences for the person making them, so please report only material you genuinely own or represent.
What happens after a notice arrives
When we receive a complete and good-faith notice, we act on it promptly. In most cases that means removing or disabling access to the material while we look into it, rather than leaving it up and arguing. We keep a record of the notice because copyright complaints are part of our accountability trail, and we may let the person who published the material know that a notice came in and what it concerned.
Removal is not an admission that the material infringed. It is the cautious first step the process expects, and it protects everyone while the question is settled. Where a notice concerns a photograph or a document used in a news story, we consider whether the use was a lawful quotation or fair use before deciding, and we tell you what we decided and why.
Counter-notices
If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake, or that the use was lawful, you can send a counter-notice to the same address. It should identify the material and where it appeared, include your contact details, and state under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the removal was an error or a misidentification.
It should also include your consent to the jurisdiction of the appropriate court and your agreement to accept service from the party who complained. Where the law provides for it, we may restore the material after the statutory waiting period unless the complainant tells us they have filed a court action.
Repeat infringers
Anyone who repeatedly posts material that infringes the rights of others, in a comment or any other submission the site allows, can lose access to those features. We keep enough of a record to tell a first mistake from a pattern, and we apply the rule to everyone, including contributors. Copyright is not a formality here, and neither is the process for defending it.
When someone copies us
We use the same tools to protect our own work. If you find MIND CRON reporting republished without permission, we would like to hear about it at support@mindcron.com. We send takedown notices to hosts and platforms, we pursue search-engine delisting where that is the right remedy, and we escalate against operations that copy at scale. Genuine quotation with credit is never the target; wholesale copying is.
Images and graphics credited to a third party in our stories belong to that third party, and a licence to us is not a licence to you. If you want to reuse one, contact the credited owner rather than us.
Jurisdiction and other questions
The governing law for this policy is the law of the place where MIND CRON is established, and the registered details of the operator are confirmed in writing to anyone with a genuine legal need who asks at support@mindcron.com. How the wider rules of use fit together is on our terms of service, and other ways to reach the team are on our contact page.
Last updated: September 2026
