Copy Removal

Takedowns for photographers and small brands in the US

Someone used your photo? We file the takedown.

Upload a photo or paste its address to see which pages show it. If you want a copy gone, we check it against your original, send the notice to whoever can remove it, and bill you only after it is down.

Drop a photo here, or

JPG, PNG or WebP, up to 6 MB. Deleted after 14 days.

ridge-at-dusk.jpgYours
A jagged mountain peak lit orange at dusk above a valley road

Your photograph, and every page the search brought back

Search results

5 pages found · 3 carry your photograph

  • A jagged mountain peak lit orange at dusk above a valley road
    ridgewalks-blog.exampleIdentical fileHeader image on a blog post
  • A jagged mountain peak lit orange at dusk above a valley road
    wallart-shopIdentical fileFramed print listing, filtered
  • A jagged mountain peak lit orange at dusk above a valley road
    ridgelines.dailySame file namePost, cropped to a square
  • A pine forest disappearing into morning fog
    travel-notes.exampleLookalikeA different photograph. The search only guessed.Not filed against

Each one is set beside your original before anything is filed. A lookalike never is.

A worked search, on reserved addresses. The sites and handles in it are invented.
  • Free to search

    No account, no card, and nothing kept past 14 days

  • You approve each notice

    Wording and price, page by page, before anything is sent

  • Billed on the result

    The invoice waits until your photo is gone from the page

Where a notice goes

We file where the copy can actually be removed

Each of these has its own route, its own form and its own evidence it will accept. Anywhere else, a notice is a letter nobody is obliged to read.

  • Instagram
  • TikTok
  • Facebook
  • X
  • Pinterest
  • YouTube
  • Etsy
  • Amazon
  • eBay
  • Google
  • Reddit
  • Shopify

What qualifies

One photograph, four kinds of place

Photographs you took yourself, wherever a copy has been posted. The kind of place decides who we write to — and writing to the wrong party is why most notices are ignored.

A black chair with wooden legs on a teal background

Your photograph

chair-oak-01.jpg · the file you shot and own

  • Your photographs on someone else’s website

    Any website, through its host

    Blogs, news sites, online shops, directories. The same photo, or a cropped, resized or filtered version of it, compared side by side with your original before anything is drafted.

    The host’s designated agent

    deskjournal.example

    Twelve chairs worth the money

    A black chair with wooden legs on a teal background
  • Reposts on social platforms

    Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, X, TikTok, Reddit. Each platform has its own copyright form; that is where the notice goes, not to the account holder.

    The platform’s copyright form

    Instagram
    studio.furnish
    A black chair with wooden legs on a teal background
  • Product photos in another seller’s listing

    Etsy, Amazon, eBay, Shopify stores and print-on-demand sites. Filed through the marketplace’s intellectual-property report, against the listing.

    The marketplace’s IP report

    Etsy
    A black chair with wooden legs on a teal background

    Oak and black dining chair

    Add to cart
  • A profile built from your pictures

    Where you took the photos yourself, the copies can be reported as copyright. The impersonation itself is a separate report, and we tell you how to make it.

    A copyright report, and a separate impersonation report

    Instagram

    furnish.studio.official

    A black chair with wooden legs on a teal background
    A bright living room with a yellow armchair and white shelves
    A white ceramic vase on a marble plinth beside a dried plant
    A black chair with wooden legs on a teal background
    A green velvet sofa against a pale wall on a wooden floor
    Cups of coffee with latte art on a wooden café table

How it works

Six stages, and you see every one

Nothing happens to a page until you have read what we found, what it will cost and what the notice says. These are the screens you get at each stage.

  1. Stage 1 of 6

    The matter is opened

    You send the photograph and the pages, posts or listings that show it, or you start from a free search for the photo and pick from what it found. Either way a matter is opened and you get a private portal for it.

    A search only proposes addresses. Nothing it finds goes any further unless you choose it.

    Your photo search

    yellow-chair-room.jpg2.4 MB · 4032 × 2688 · reading the web
    • homenotes-blog.example
    • Instagram · interiors.weekly
    • Etsy · printsandplants
    A search only proposes addresses. Nothing goes further unless you pick it.
  2. Stage 2 of 6

    Each copy is compared

    Each copy is opened and laid beside your original. We note whether it is the identical file, a crop, a resize or a filtered version, confirm who took the photo, check public dates, and weigh fair use. The result is recorded against each address before anything else can happen to it.

    A lookalike that turns out to be a different photograph is marked and explained, not quietly dropped.

    Compare · homenotes-blog.example

    A bright living room with a yellow armchair and white shelves
    Your original
    A bright living room with a yellow armchair and white shelves
    Found on the page
    Bytes1,284,113
    Dimensions1600 × 1067
    SHA-2564f1b9c2e8a07…
    File namelake-hero-2.jpg

    Identical file — the same photograph

    A lookalike that turns out to be a different photograph is marked and explained, not dropped.
  3. Stage 3 of 6

    A price is fixed

    Each page is priced from the published schedule and the figure is frozen the moment it is quoted. It cannot be changed afterwards by anyone, including us.

    Three or more pages with the same host, account or seller in one matter take the batch reduction automatically.

    Price · one page

    A photo on a website

    One page showing your photograph, on a host that acts on notices.

    $95

    Frozen before filing — it cannot be revised

    BilledOnly once the copy is down
    If it stays upNothing owed for it
    Three or more pages with the same host, account or seller take 15% off each, automatically.
  4. Stage 4 of 6

    You approve each page

    You see the draft notice, the price and the comparison notes for each copy, and approve the ones you want filed. Anything you leave unapproved stays where it is.

    The notice is made under penalty of perjury in your name and ours. That is why it is shown to you in full first.

    Approve · 3 pages waiting

    • homenotes-blog.exampleIdentical file
    • Instagram · interiors.weeklySame file name
    • decor-daily.exampleLookalike

    2 selected · $220

    Approve 2 notices
    Anything you leave unapproved stays exactly where it is.
  5. Stage 5 of 6

    The notice is served

    A copy on a website goes to the host’s designated agent on record. A post goes through the platform’s own copyright form, a listing through the marketplace’s report. Where the photo also shows in Google Images, a separate removal request goes to Google.

    Every step lands in your portal on the day it happens, including a refusal or a silence.

    Notice · sent 2 hours ago

    To: DMCA agent, Hostline Inc.

    Notice of claimed infringement under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3). The work is the photograph yellow-chair-room.jpg, first published 12 March 2024…

    Sworn statementSignatureOriginal citedCopy located
    • Served on the host’s designated agent
    • Followed up if nobody replies
    You see the notice exactly as it went, and every reply as it arrives.
  6. Stage 6 of 6

    We confirm it is down, then invoice

    When a host or platform reports action, we open the page ourselves. Only once your photo is gone from it is an invoice raised, at the figure already agreed. The address is checked again after seven and thirty days.

    If a counter-notice restores it, the invoice is voided, and anything already paid for that page is refunded without you asking.

    homenotes-blog.example · checked today

    A bright living room with a yellow armchair and white shelves
    Your original
    Image removed
    The page today
    Invoice, raised now$95
    Re-checked at day 7 and day 30. If it comes back, we tell you and file again.

What the search shows you

Three verdicts, and only one can be filed

A reverse image search returns copies and lookalikes together. Every result carries the reason it matched, because that reason decides what we are allowed to do next.

1/3quietlakes-blog.exampleHeader image on a blog post

Identical file
Your original
A rowing boat on a turquoise mountain lake, cliffs and a summit behind
What the search found
A rowing boat on a turquoise mountain lake, cliffs and a summit behind

The image on that page is byte-for-byte the same file as yours.

Bytes: 1,284,113 — the same

SHA-256: 4f1b9c2e8a07… — the same

Dimensions: 1600 × 1067 — the same

What that means: It is your file, not a photograph of the same thing

Can be filed on this evidence alone

2/3InstagramPost, cropped to a square

Same file name
Your original
A rowing boat on a turquoise mountain lake, cliffs and a summit behind
What the search found
A rowing boat on a turquoise mountain lake, cliffs and a summit behind

The image carries your photo’s distinctive file name. The file itself was not compared.

File name: lake-at-dawn.jpg — distinctive, and the same

Bytes: Re-encoded by the platform, so not comparable

Crop: Marked on your original, on the left

What we do: Open both, compare by eye, and record the answer

Filed only after a person confirms it is the same photograph

3/3travel-notes.exampleThe same lake, another photographer

Lookalike
Your original
A rowing boat on a turquoise mountain lake, cliffs and a summit behind
What the search found
The bow of a wooden boat on a green mountain lake under grey cliffs

A visually similar image. It may be your photo cropped or filtered, or a different photo. Open it and compare.

Subject: The same lake, from a different position

Bytes: A different file entirely

Verdict: Not your photograph

What we do: Drop it, and tell you why rather than hide it

Never filed. A notice against this would be a false statement.

  1. Identical file
  2. Same file name
  3. Lookalike

Swipe to see all three.

Who gets the notice

Four parties, and only one can do each job

A notice goes to whoever has the power and the legal reason to act — never to the person who posted the copy. This is what each of them can actually do with it.

  • The host

    Any website, through its host

    Its designated agent, registered with the US Copyright Office

    Take the image off the page
    Yes
    Take the whole page down
    Yes
    Drop it out of Google Images
    Only once the page itself changes
    Act on someone who does it again
    Sometimes, under its own policy
    Pass your name to the other side
    Usually — the notice is forwarded
  • The platform

    Its own copyright form, not the account that posted it

    Take the image off the page
    Yes — the whole post goes
    Take the whole page down
    Yes
    Drop it out of Google Images
    Only once the post is gone
    Act on someone who does it again
    Yes — a strike on the account
    Pass your name to the other side
    Often, and it varies by platform
  • The marketplace

    Its intellectual-property report, against the listing

    Take the image off the page
    Yes — the listing goes
    Take the whole page down
    Yes
    Drop it out of Google Images
    Only once the listing is gone
    Act on someone who does it again
    Yes — the seller’s other listings too
    Pass your name to the other side
    Most do not say
  • Google

    A separate request, in addition to the host or platform

    Take the image off the page
    No
    Take the whole page down
    No
    Drop it out of Google Images
    Yes
    Act on someone who does it again
    No
    Pass your name to the other side
    Name and address only, to Lumen

Pricing

Priced per page, billed when it is down

Five rungs, published. The rung depends on where the copy sits and what filing it needs — not on how much the photograph is worth to you.

Where is the copy?

  • Searching for your photoNo charge
  • Opening a matter and the reviewNo charge
  • A page we decline to fileNo charge
  • A notice that is not acted onNo charge
  • A copy restored by counter-noticeNo charge
  • A copy confirmed downThe figure fixed before filing

What that would come to

An estimate from the published list, not a quote.

Pages like thisSame host, account or seller

1
1 × $95
$95
15% off, 3 pages or more
—
If every page comes down
$95

Each page is billed only when we have seen your photo gone from it. Pages that stay up cost nothing.

Search for your photo

Free, and no account

A real figure is fixed per page before anything is filed, and frozen once quoted.The full list

Limits

Four things we will not promise you

Every one of these is a promise other services make. We would rather lose the work than make it, because each one is outside our control and you would find that out afterwards.

What we decline, and why
  1. A removal.The host, the platform or the search engine makes that decision. We prepare the notice so it cannot be dismissed on form, and we follow it up.
  2. A date.Hosts and platforms work at their own pace, and some never reply. You see each step the day it happens instead of an estimate.
  3. That it stays down.The other side may file a counter-notice, and the material may then be restored after 10 to 14 business days unless you go to court.
  4. That a Google removal deletes the photo.Search and hosting are separate. Delisting a copy from Google Images leaves it on the page until the host or platform acts.

A notice is a sworn statement, and a knowingly false one is actionable under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f). That is why a lookalike is never filed against, and why we decline work we cannot stand behind.

Questions

Asked before, answered here

What does a takedown cost?

Every page is priced from a published five-rung list, $95 to $295, depending on where the copy sits and what filing it needs. You see that figure before you approve the page, and the invoice comes only after we have checked that your photo is gone from it. Searching, reviewing, declined pages, notices nobody acts on and copies put back after a counter-notice cost nothing.

Can you guarantee the photo comes down?

No one honestly can. The host, the platform or the search engine makes that call. What we can promise is the billing: if the copy stays where it is, you owe nothing for it.

How long does it usually take?

We will not give you a date, because the other side sets the pace and it varies a great deal. Some act quickly, some need chasing, a few never answer. Each step shows up in your portal on the day it happens.

What happens to a photo I upload for the search?

It is stored privately at a random address so the image search can read it, then deleted along with the search after 14 days, or sooner if you delete it from the results. Nobody else sees it and it is used for nothing else. If you open a matter from that search, the photo stays with the matter as the original the notice points to.

Why did the search show a picture that is not mine?

Reverse image search returns lookalikes along with copies. Anything that is not the identical file is labeled as a lookalike or a file-name match, so you know to open it and compare. No page is filed against until a person has set it beside your original.

A friend took the photo of me. Can you get it removed?

Not with a copyright notice in your name, because the copyright is the photographer’s. They can authorize us, or you can use the platform’s privacy or impersonation report. We will tell you which fits instead of filing something we cannot stand behind.

Will the person who copied it find out who I am?

Most likely, so decide with that in mind. A notice has to name the rights holder and give contact details, and hosts and platforms usually pass it on to the site or account owner. Google sends search removal requests to the Lumen database, which publishes names and the reported addresses but not contact details.

What if they answer with a counter-notice?

The host may put the photo back 10 to 14 business days later unless you start a court action. You hear from us the day it arrives. The invoice for that page is canceled, and refunded if you had already paid. Taking it to court is a decision to make with a lawyer, not with us.

Something not covered?[email protected]— a person reads it.

Free, and no account

See where your photo has been posted.

Drop the file here and the search starts at the top of the page. It is free, there is no account, and an uploaded photo is deleted after 14 days.

Drop a photo here

JPG, PNG or WebP, up to 6 MB

Already know where the copies are? Open a matter.