DMCA / Copyright

Cherrybook respects the intellectual property rights of others and complies with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512). If you believe material on cherrybookcoffee.com or cherrybook.coffee infringes your copyright, this page explains how to submit a takedown notice to our designated agent, and how to file a counter-notification if your material has been removed in error.

Designated copyright agent

17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(2) requires us to publish the agent’s name, physical address, phone number, and email here so a notifier can reach us through any of those channels. The same details are filed with the US Copyright Office Designated Agent Directory.

Send all DMCA notices to:

What to include in a takedown notice

To be valid under § 512(c)(3), a notice must include all six of the following. If any element is missing, we may not be able to act on the notice.

1. Signature. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or an authorized agent. A typed name at the end of an email counts.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work. Describe the work you claim has been infringed. If you hold copyright on multiple works, a representative list is acceptable.
3. Identification of the infringing material. Give us the specific URL(s) on cherrybookcoffee.com or cherrybook.coffee where the infringing material appears. “The whole site” or “every roaster page” is not specific enough.
4. Your contact information. Name, address, phone number, and email. We’ll use email for the actual correspondence.
5. Good-faith statement. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use of the material identified is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. Accuracy + authority statement. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.

What happens after we receive a valid notice

• We will act as expeditiously as possible to remove or disable access to the allegedly infringing material.
• We may forward relevant portions of your notice (with redactions where appropriate to protect notifier PII) to the user who posted the material, or to the roaster whose content is implicated, so they can file a counter-notice if they believe the takedown was in error.
• We maintain a policy of terminating the accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances.

Counter-notification

If your material was removed and you believe the removal was a mistake or misidentification, you may submit a counter-notice under § 512(g)(3). Email the same address above with the following five elements:

1. Your signature (physical or electronic).
2. Identification of the removed material and the location where it appeared before removal.
3. Sworn statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
4. Your contact information (name, address, phone number, email).
5. Consent to jurisdiction in the federal district court for the judicial district where your address is located (or, if outside the US, any district in which Cherrybook may be found), and acceptance of service of process from the original notifier.

On receipt of a valid counter-notice, we will forward it to the original notifier. If they do not file suit within 10–14 business days, we will restore the removed material.

Informal removal requests

The DMCA process above is the formal mechanism. It exists for situations that need legal teeth: sworn statements, counter-notice rights, the works. Most removal requests don’t need that. If you’d rather just have your content removed without filing a legal notice, email removal@cherrybookcoffee.com with the URL and a one-line description. We typically remove within 48 hours, no questions asked, no legal paperwork.

This applies to anyone whose third-party content surfaces on Cherrybook:

• Roasters. If you want your entire catalog removed, the For Roasters page is the canonical path. The catalog will be cleared within a few business days and the scraper will be blacklisted from re-adding you.
• YouTube reviewers. We transcribe third-party reviewer videos and pin reviewer-level tasting notes to specific beans, with attribution and link-back to the original. If you’d prefer your channel’s excerpts removed, email us with your channel name and any video URL we’ve cited. The block is channel-scoped, so future weekly transcript runs won’t re-add your content either.
• Editorial publications. We pull RSS metadata (article title and URL) for press mentions on roaster pages. We don’t republish your articles, just link to them. If you’d rather not be aggregated, email us with your publication name.
• Reddit and community sources. We aggregate sentiment, not verbatim threads. Removal requests from individual commenters are rare but we honor them on the same 48-hour timeline.

False claims

§ 512(f) makes it unlawful to knowingly misrepresent that material is infringing, or that it was removed by mistake. A party who makes such misrepresentations may be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees, incurred by Cherrybook, the alleged infringer, or the copyright owner. Please confirm you hold (or are authorized to enforce) the copyright in the material before sending a notice.

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