Chapter & Crumb respects the intellectual-property rights of others and expects users to do the same. We may remove or disable access to content, investigate related activity, contact the affected user, and take other action when we receive a valid copyright complaint or otherwise identify potential infringement.

This policy describes how to submit copyright notices and counter-notices, how repeat infringement may be handled, and how Chapter & Crumb approaches recipe-related content that may contain both functional and expressive elements.

Users may not upload or publish content they do not own or have permission to use, including copyrighted food photography, cookbook scans, blog introductions, headnotes, illustrations, PDFs, or other expressive material copied from third parties.

Attribution, source links, cropping, formatting changes, or other minor edits do not by themselves make reposting lawful. Users are responsible for ensuring that any public content they share is original, licensed, authorized, or otherwise lawfully used.

Copyright notices may be sent to Copyright Manager, Chapter & Crumb, 1500 N Grant St Ste R, Denver, CO 80203, US, phone 720-449-6856, email [email protected].

A copyright notice should include the claimant’s physical or electronic signature, identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, identification of the allegedly infringing material and its location, the claimant’s contact information, a statement of good-faith belief that the use is not authorized, and a statement under penalty of perjury that the notice is accurate and that the claimant is authorized to act.

If your content is removed or disabled and you believe that happened because of mistake or misidentification, you may submit a counter-notice. Counter-notices should include your physical or electronic signature, identification of the removed material and where it appeared before removal, your name, address, and telephone number, a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed by mistake or misidentification, and your consent to the jurisdiction of the applicable federal court.

We may forward valid counter-notices to the original claimant. If the claimant does not notify us within the applicable statutory period, including the 10 to 14 business day window contemplated by applicable law, that it has filed an action seeking a court order, we may restore the content as permitted by law.

After receiving a notice, Chapter & Crumb may review the report, remove or disable the identified content, preserve relevant account and system records, and notify the affected user. We may request additional information when needed to evaluate a complaint or counter-notice.

This policy supports our response process, but DMCA safe-harbor compliance also depends on actual operations, including maintaining a designated agent, responding expeditiously to notices, and enforcing a repeat-infringer policy in practice.

Accounts that are the subject of repeated valid copyright complaints, repeated obvious infringement, or repeated violations of Chapter & Crumb’s intellectual-property rules may have content removed and may be suspended or terminated.

We may consider the number, seriousness, and pattern of complaints, the nature of the copied material, whether the user responds, and whether the account appears to be using the service primarily to repost infringing content.

Recipe content can include both unprotected functional information and protected expressive material. Simple ingredient lists or bare functional directions may be treated differently from creative recipe text, explanatory notes, cookbook-style presentation, photography, and illustrations.

Users should avoid copying expressive recipe introductions, distinctive step wording, food photography, or page layouts from third-party publishers and creators. When in doubt, rewrite in original language, use your own or licensed images, and link to the original source rather than republishing copied expression.