DMCA Notice / Legal complaints

Procedure for Copyright Infringement Claims and suspect violation of your rights

We respect the intellectual property rights of others. It is our policy to respond to any claim that content posted on our service infringes on the copyright or other intellectual property rights (“Infringement”) of any person or entity.

If you are a copyright owner, or authorized on behalf of one, and you believe that the copyrighted work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please submit your claim via email to , with the subject line “Copyright Infringement” and include in your claim a detailed description of the alleged Infringement as detailed below.

If you believe that content published through our service violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, contract rights or any other of your rights under the laws of Germany, please submit your claim via email to , with the subject line “Legal complaint” and include in your claim a detailed description of the alleged Infringement as detailed below.

You may be held accountable for damages (including costs and attorneys' fees) for misrepresentation or bad-faith claims on the infringement of any Content found on and/or through Service on your copyright.

Please note that typical SPXP clients collect content from various sources and display them in a consolidated, customisable view to the user. Just because infringing material is displayed in the context of a profile which is hosted on our service does not necessarily mean that this material is also hosted by our service.

Additionally, the SPXP protocol enables users to encrypt any information in a way that intentionally prevents our service from learning anything about the transmitted content (end to end encryption).

Any information that is published through our service is accessible from a plain web browser. If you suspect our service to host content that violates any of your rights, please test if you can access this content from a web browser.

In this case, you may submit a notification pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by providing our Copyright Agent with the following information in writing (see 17 U.S.C 512(c)(3) for further detail):

  • (a) an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright's interest;
  • (b) a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed, including the URL (i.e., web page address) of the location where the copyrighted work exists or a copy of the copyrighted work;
  • (c) identification of the location on Service where the material that you claim is infringing is located, including profile URI, the post seqts, media URI;
  • (d) your address, telephone number, and email address;
  • (e) a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
  • (f) a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.