Legal
DMCA & takedown policy
Bleepboard hosts short audio clips for commentary, reference and entertainment. If you hold the rights to something here and you want it gone, this page is the route — and it is a short one. One email, to one address, with the details that let us find the clip and act on it.
Opens an email to dmca@bleepboard.com, subject line already set, with the required statements drafted in the body. Nothing is sent until you send it — and you can write the whole thing yourself instead, to the same address.
What to put in a takedown notice
Six things. A notice missing any of them is one we have to come back to you about, which costs you the round trip — so it is worth the extra minute now.
- The URL of the sound page
The page address, not just the name of the clip. Several sounds share a title; the URL never does. If you are already on the sound's page, its Report this sound menu fills the URL in for you.
- The work you say it infringes
What the clip was taken from — the film, episode, track, stream or video, and a link or catalogue reference if you have one to hand.
- Who you are, and how to reply to you
Your name, the rights holder you are acting for, and an email address we can answer. Everything after this point is a statement you are making personally, so it needs a person attached to it.
- A good-faith statement
That you believe in good faith the use of the material is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
- A statement of accuracy and authority
That, under penalty of perjury, the information in your notice is accurate and you are the owner of the right or are authorised to act on the owner's behalf.
- Your signature
Physical or electronic. Your full name typed at the end of the email is the usual form and is fine here.
Note The last three points are the parts that make a notice a formal one rather than a complaint. The prefilled email above already contains draft wording for them — read it before you send, because you are the one signing it.
What happens after you send it
An honest description of the process, rather than a promise about the outcome.
- It is read by a person. Bleepboard is a small operation. Notices are not triaged by a bot or a ticket queue — someone opens the email and reads it. We work through them as quickly as we can.
- We check the notice and find the clip. We match the URL to the sound, confirm the notice covers the six points above, and come back to you at the address you wrote from if something is missing or unclear.
- Material subject to a valid notice is taken down. The clip and its sound page are removed, along with its place in the soundboards that listed it. We may also disable the clip while a notice is still being looked at, rather than leave it up.
- Removal ships with the next build. Bleepboard is a static site: pages are generated ahead of time and published as files. So a removal takes effect when the site is next rebuilt and deployed, and caches and search engines can hold a stale copy for a while after that. It is not an instant switch, and we would rather say so.
- Repeat infringement. Where sources or contributors turn out to be a repeated problem, we stop taking material from them.
Other kinds of report
Not every problem is a copyright problem. These go to the same address — the subject line is what sorts them — and none of them need the formal statements above.
Anything else — a correction, a credit we got wrong, a sound you think should be here — is welcome at dmca@bleepboard.com too. Reporting from the sound's own page is faster: the Report this sound menu fills in the title, the page and the audio file before you type a word.
If something was removed by mistake
Takedowns can be wrong. A notice can name the wrong URL, describe a clip that was licensed after all, or come from someone who turns out not to speak for the rights holder. If a sound you have a claim to came down and you believe that was an error, you can say so — reply to the same address, tell us which page it was, and explain why you think the removal was mistaken.
That reply is a counter-notice. Like the notice that triggered it, it carries weight: you are stating, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification. We pass a counter-notice on to whoever sent the original notice, and restoring the material is not immediate — the law builds in a waiting period so the claimant can respond first.
Sending either a takedown notice or a counter-notice in bad faith is not free — knowingly misrepresenting what is infringing, or what was wrongly removed, can make you liable for the costs it causes. Which is the polite way of saying: only claim what is actually yours.
This page explains how to reach us and what we do with a report. It is practical guidance about our process, not legal advice — if you need to know what your rights are, or whether a notice is the right move, ask a lawyer rather than a soundboard.