Copyright and takedown requests

If you believe content on this site infringes your copyright, send the URL, a description of the work, and your contact details through the contact form and the material will be reviewed and removed if the claim is valid.

1. Before you file

This site publishes original writing about OBS Studio. It does not host OBS Studio, plugins, game assets, platform artwork or third-party software; links to those go to the publisher's own site. If the material you are concerned about lives on another site we merely link to, the complaint belongs with that site's host, not here.

If the issue is a screenshot, quotation or description on one of our pages, we would rather fix it than argue about it. A short message is usually faster than a formal notice.

2. What a complete notice contains

Send the following through the contact form:

1. The full address of every page you say infringes.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work, with a link to the original if one exists.
3. Your name, organisation if any, and an address we can reply to.
4. A statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the rights holder, its agent, or the law.
5. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the rights holder or authorised to act for them.
6. Your physical or electronic signature.

An incomplete notice slows everything down; we will ask for the missing pieces rather than act on a claim we cannot verify.

3. What happens next

1. The notice is acknowledged when it is received.
2. The page is reviewed against the claim, usually within a few working days.
3. If the claim is valid the material is removed or replaced, and the page records that a change was made.
4. If the claim is not valid — for example, it targets fair quotation, factual description, or a name used for identification — we will explain why and keep the page up.

4. Counter-notice

If material of yours was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, send a counter-notice containing the removed material's address, your contact details, a statement under penalty of perjury that you believe it was removed in error, and your consent to jurisdiction in your place of residence. Valid counter-notices are forwarded to the original complainant, and the material may be restored where the law allows.

5. Bad-faith notices

Notices sent to suppress accurate criticism of a product, an unfavourable test result, or a factual statement about compatibility are not copyright complaints. They will be refused and, where they are plainly abusive, documented publicly.

6. Trademarks and naming

Complaints about how a product, game, platform or project name is used on this site are handled under the trademark and naming notice, not this page.

7. Reporting your own work being copied

If you find this site's material republished elsewhere without attribution, we would like to know. Send the address through the contact form.

This policy was last updated 6 August 2026.