DMCA Policy

SparkForge respects the intellectual property rights of others and complies with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA), 17 U.S.C. § 512. If you believe content available through SparkForge infringes a copyright you own or control, this page explains how to submit a notice that meets the statutory requirements, how to file a counter-notice if your content was removed in error, and how we handle repeat infringers.

SparkForge is an educational platform that allows users (under parental supervision) to submit short text prompts to an AI learning game (Prompt Lab) and receive AI-generated responses. These submissions and responses are the principal user-generated content on the platform.

SparkForge has designated the following agent to receive notifications of claimed copyright infringement under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(2):

To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)(A), your notice must be a written communication delivered to the Designated Agent above (email is acceptable) that includes substantially all of the following:

1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed (or a representative list, if multiple works).
3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity, with information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate it (specific URL, child profile display name, and approximate date/time of submission, where applicable).
4. Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party, including a mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
5. A statement that the complaining party has a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Notices that do not include all six elements may not be effective and may result in delayed action or no action at all. Materially misrepresenting that material is infringing exposes the sender to liability for damages under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f).

If your content was removed or disabled in response to a DMCA notice, you (or the parent of a minor user whose content was affected) may submit a counter-notice under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3). An effective counter-notice must include:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which it appeared before removal.
3. A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification.
4. Your name, address, and telephone number, plus a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or, if outside the United States, any judicial district in which SparkForge LLC may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original notification or an agent of that person.

Upon receipt of a compliant counter-notice we will promptly forward it to the original complainant. If the complainant does not file a court action seeking a restraining order against the user within 10–14 business days, the removed material may be restored.

In accordance with 17 U.S.C. § 512(i)(1)(A), SparkForge has adopted and reasonably implements a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, parent accounts (and the associated child profiles) of users who are repeat infringers. We track the number of valid DMCA notices associated with each parent account. A parent account that receives three or more uncontested takedowns within any rolling 12-month period is subject to suspension and, on subsequent notice, permanent termination.

5. Important context for ed-tech and AI content

• Prompt Lab outputs are generated by the Anthropic Claude API. SparkForge LLC is the customer of the Anthropic API; per Anthropic's commercial terms, output IP rights pass through to the customer and onward to the user that submitted the prompt. Genuine third-party copyright concerns about specific outputs should still be reported here so that the affected output can be removed.
• SparkForge does not host user-uploaded files (no images, videos, or audio uploads). Reported infringement will almost always concern text generated through the Prompt Lab.
• Trademark, defamation, privacy, and right-of-publicity complaints are not DMCA matters. Direct those to legal@sparkforge-labs.com.

6. Related policies

See our Terms of Service (intellectual property and acceptable use), our Privacy Policy, and our children's privacy notice.