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SnackArcade respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects visitors and contributors to do the same. This page explains how to report content you believe infringes your copyright, and what happens after you do.

Designated agent for copyright notices: dmca@snackarcade.com

Our position on hosted games

Games hosted directly on this site are redistributed under open-source licences that explicitly permit redistribution — MIT, Apache-2.0, BSD, ISC, Zlib, CC0 and CC BY. Each game page names the original developer, states the licence, and links to both the original source repository and the licence text. The site also publishes a machine-readable licence manifest listing every hosted game and its licence.

Games delivered through partner platforms are embedded under those platforms’ licence terms and are served from their infrastructure, not ours.

Where a community-made game is inspired by a commercial title, it is published under a name that does not use the original trademark, and it is never presented as an official product of, or as endorsed by, the trademark holder.

Despite this, mistakes are possible. If you believe something here infringes your rights, tell us and we will act on it.

Filing a DMCA takedown notice

To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), your written notice must include all of the following:

  1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, or a person authorised to act on their behalf.
  2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed. If multiple works are covered by a single notice, a representative list of those works.
  3. Identification of the material you claim is infringing, with enough detail for us to locate it — a direct URL to the page or file on this site is strongly preferred.
  4. Your contact information: full name, postal address, telephone number and email address.
  5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
  6. A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act on the owner’s behalf.

Send the complete notice to dmca@snackarcade.com with “DMCA Takedown Notice” in the subject line.

Please note: under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), anyone who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing may be liable for damages, including costs and legal fees. If you are unsure whether the material is covered by a licence that permits its use here, it is worth checking the licence link on the game page first — or simply emailing us informally before filing.

What happens next

  1. Acknowledgement. We aim to confirm receipt within 2 business days.
  2. Review and removal. Where a notice is complete and appears valid, the disputed content is removed or disabled promptly — normally within 5 business days, and usually much faster. We do not wait for a legal dispute to resolve before removing content.
  3. Notification. Where the material was supplied by an identifiable third party, we notify them and provide a copy of the notice.
  4. Record. Notices and the action taken are recorded so that repeat infringement can be identified.

Informal requests from developers

If you are the developer of a game hosted here and you simply want it taken down, you do not need to file a formal DMCA notice. Email dmca@snackarcade.com from an address associated with the project and say so. The game will be removed. No argument, no negotiation, no requirement to explain why.

The same applies to attribution: if the credit line, licence reference or source link on a game page is wrong, tell us and it will be corrected.

Counter-notice

If your content was removed and you believe the removal was a mistake or a misidentification, you may submit a counter-notice under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3). It must include:

  1. Your physical or electronic signature.
  2. Identification of the material removed and the location where it appeared before removal.
  3. A 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 name, postal address and telephone number.
  5. 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 your address is 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 original notice.

Send counter-notices to dmca@snackarcade.com. We will forward a copy to the original complainant. If they do not file a court action within 10 to 14 business days, the material may be restored.

Repeat infringers

Where content is supplied by third parties, accounts or sources responsible for repeated infringement are removed from the site in accordance with the DMCA’s repeat-infringer policy.

Trademarks

Trademark concerns — for example a game name, logo or visual style you believe creates confusion with your brand — are handled through the same address. Please describe the mark, your rights in it, and the page concerned. Trademark complaints do not require the DMCA statements listed above, and are usually resolved by renaming or removing the listing.