ato
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Kohsuke Egami
Contact
kohsuke@ato.run
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IP and Takedown Policy

This page describes how to report copyright, trademark, and other IP concerns in ato.run.

We respond to valid intellectual property complaints and may remove content while we review notices and counter-notices.

1. Filing an IP Notice

Send notices to kohsuke@ato.run or by post to Kohsuke Egami (ato.run), 2F-C, Shibuya Dogenzaka Tokyu Building, 1-10-8 Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

A notice should include:

  • your physical or electronic signature, as the rights holder or a person authorized to act for them;
  • identification of the work or right you believe is infringed;
  • the exact URL, app, or package identifier of the material, with enough detail for us to locate it;
  • your name, address, telephone number, and email address;
  • a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the rights holder, its agent, or the law; and
  • a statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act for the rights holder.

These elements follow the notice requirements of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)). Incomplete notices may delay review.

2. Requests Under Japanese Law

If you are in Japan, you may also submit a request for transmission prevention measures (送信防止措置) or disclosure of sender information (発信者情報開示) under the Act on the Limitation of Liability for Damages of Specified Telecommunications Service Providers and Information Disclosure, using the same contact. We may ask you to use the standard request forms published by the Telecom Information Service Council.

3. Review Process

After receiving a notice, we may request additional information, notify the publisher, disable access temporarily, or remove the reported content. Where we remove or disable content, we will take reasonable steps to notify the publisher and share a copy of the notice, with personal contact details withheld where appropriate.

4. Counter-Notice

Publishers may submit a counter-notice if they believe material was removed by mistake or misidentification. A counter-notice should include:

  • your physical or electronic signature;
  • identification of the removed material and where it appeared before removal;
  • a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed by mistake or misidentification; and
  • your name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the court for your address (or, if outside the United States, any judicial district in which we may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the notice.

We review counter-notices and may restore content when legally appropriate.

5. Repeat Violations

Repeated or egregious infringement may result in reduced visibility, account restrictions, or permanent removal from the platform. We terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of repeat infringers.

6. Misrepresentation

Knowingly submitting a false notice or counter-notice may expose you to liability for damages.

7. Contact

Submit reports through Contact.