Copyright on 6E Club: Takedown Requests, Counter-Notices and Repeat Infringers
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Copyright is the one rule on 6E Club where the complaint usually comes from the person whose work was taken rather than from a viewer. This page explains both sides: how a rights holder sends a takedown request that will be acted on, and what an uploader can do when a video is removed because of one.
It covers who may send a copyright notice, exactly what a valid notice contains, the 24-hour and 36-hour timelines, the 10-day counter-notice window, the repeat-infringer limits, fair dealing in India in plain words, and what happens to people who misuse the process. None of it is legal advice.
Who Can Send a Copyright Request
A takedown request must come from the owner of the work or from someone acting for the owner, such as a lawyer, a record label, a production house, a publisher or an agency with written authority. That is the only requirement about who you are. There is no fee, no account needed, and no minimum size: a solo musician whose song is under someone else’s dance video has the same standing as a film studio.
A viewer who simply recognises a film or a match in a video is not a rights holder. The right route for that is the ordinary Report button and a reason such as “Misleading or spam” from the list of report reasons; the review team will look at it, but the formal timelines below only start when the owner or their agent sends a notice.
The work can be anything protected: video footage, a song or recording, a photograph used as a thumbnail, a script read aloud, artwork in a banner, software shown on screen, or a written text pasted into a description. Requests are made per video; there are no whole-channel takedowns, so each video link must be listed.
What a Valid Notice Must Contain
The 36-hour clock starts only when the notice is complete. An incomplete request receives a reply listing what is missing, and the clock starts when the missing parts arrive. The table is the checklist the review team uses.
| Part | What to provide | Why it is needed |
|---|---|---|
| The video links | The full address of each video, or the video ID shown on the watch page; a timestamp if only part of the video is at issue | So the right content is hidden and nothing else |
| The original work | A description of what was copied and where it can be seen or verified: a link, a release, a registration number if one exists | The reviewer compares the two |
| Your relationship to the work | Owner, or agent for the owner with the owner’s name | Only owners and agents may send a notice |
| Contact details | Name, email, postal address and, if you wish, a phone number | For the acknowledgement and for the uploader’s counter-notice |
| Good-faith statement | That you believe the use is not authorised by the owner, an agent or the law | Required by the notice process |
| Accuracy statement | That the information is accurate and that you are, or act for, the owner | Makes a false notice a serious matter |
| Signature | A typed full name on the form, or a signature on an emailed letter | Confirms the notice is yours |
Two things are not needed: proof that the uploader knew, and a legal opinion. A short, exact notice is processed faster than a long one. Avoid attaching the full original work; a link or a description is enough, and large attachments can delay the reply.
How to Send It
There are two routes and they are treated identically. The form is faster because it refuses to send until every required part is filled in, which means the 36-hour clock starts on the first attempt.
- The takedown form. Open the rights-holder takedown form directly, or press Report on the video and choose the rights-holder option. It asks for each part in the table above, one field at a time, and lets you add several video links to one notice.
- Email. Write to copyright@6e.app with the same parts in the body of the message. Put the video links on separate lines and the two statements in your own words. You get an automatic acknowledgement with a reference number.
Both routes go to the same queue and the same people. If you hold rights to many works and expect to send notices often, say so in the first message; the team can agree a simpler format for later ones. Requests are rate-limited per sender to keep the queue fair, so bundle several videos into one notice rather than sending one notice per video.
The form is also linked from the footer of every page and from each watch page, so a rights holder who lands on a video from a search engine can reach it in two taps. The contact page lists it next to the support routes.
Timelines: 24 Hours, 36 Hours, 10 Days
The timelines are fixed and follow the IT Rules, 2021. They run from the moment a complete notice is received, in Indian Standard Time, including weekends and holidays.
| Step | Deadline | Who acts |
|---|---|---|
| Acknowledgement with a reference number | Within 24 hours of receipt | The 6E Club grievance team |
| Video hidden from public view | Within 36 hours of a complete notice | Review team |
| Uploader notified with the notice details | At the same time as the hide | System email and studio notification |
| Counter-notice window | 10 days from the uploader’s email | Uploader |
| Claimant response window | 10 days from receiving the counter-notice | Rights holder |
| Restoration if no response | Promptly after the claimant window closes | Review team |
| Confirmed claim recorded | When the claimant responds or the uploader does not counter | Review team |
“Hidden” means the watch page returns a short notice instead of the player, the video disappears from feeds, search and playlists, and embeds stop working. The file is not deleted at that stage, so a successful counter-notice restores it exactly as it was, with views and comments intact.
If the notice is incomplete
An incomplete request is not ignored. Within the same 24 hours you receive a reply that names the missing parts, usually the video link or one of the two statements, and the 36-hour clock starts when they arrive. Nothing is hidden on a partial notice, because hiding a video on an unverified claim would harm an uploader who may have done nothing wrong. Sending the missing part as a reply keeps the same reference number.
What Happens to the Uploader
If a copyright notice names your video, three things happen at once. The video is hidden; an email arrives with the claimant’s description of the work, the video link and the reference number; and a strike appears on the strikes page of your creator studio. The strike is marked as a claim rather than a content strike, because the two are counted separately.
The claim does not affect your other videos, your followers or your comments. You can keep uploading unless this is your second confirmed claim. What you cannot do is re-upload the same file under a new title: removed files are fingerprinted, and a matching upload fails with “Previously removed content” before it even processes, as the upload processing section explains.
Most uploaders in this position have three honest options: accept the removal and let the strike expire after 90 days; delete the video yourself, which does not remove the strike but shows good faith; or send a counter-notice because you believe the claim is wrong.
Counter-Notices and Restoration
A counter-notice is your statement that the copyright removal was a mistake. It must be sent within 10 days of the removal email, from the link in that email or from the strike row in the studio. It needs four things: the reference number, your reason, your name and contact details, and your consent to the claimant being given those details so they can respond.
Reasons that work
- You made the work yourself, and can show the raw files or the original upload date.
- You hold a licence, for example a music licence receipt or written permission from the owner.
- The claimant has mistaken your work for theirs, which happens with stock footage and common sounds.
- The use is fair dealing: short, transformed, for criticism, review, teaching or reporting.
“I gave credit”, “it was only a short clip”, “everyone uploads this” and “I am not making money” are not reasons. Credit is polite but it is not permission, and the absence of income does not change ownership.
Once your counter-notice is received, the claimant gets a copy and 10 days to respond. If they do not, the video is restored and the strike is removed. If they stand by the claim, a reviewer looks at both sides and decides; that decision can be appealed once within 6 months, like any other. The video stays hidden while the exchange runs.
Repeat Infringers: Two Claims, Then Three
Claims are counted far more strictly than content strikes, because the harm lands on a specific person outside the platform. A claim is “confirmed” when the uploader does not counter within 10 days, or when a reviewer sides with the claimant after a counter-notice. Confirmed claims are counted for as long as the account exists, not only for 90 days.
| Confirmed claims | Effect on the account | Way back |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Video stays down; strike shown for 90 days; email warning | Counter-notice within 10 days, or wait for the strike to expire |
| 2 | Upload rights removed; existing videos stay up; watching and commenting continue | One appeal within 6 months; a successful appeal restores uploads |
| 3 | Account terminated; all videos removed; the email address cannot register again | None, apart from the single appeal on the third decision |
Terminating an account also ends its playlists, comments and followers, which is why the second claim is the real warning. If you reach it, go through every remaining video for the same problem, most often music, before doing anything else. Creators who build on their own footage and licensed sound never meet this table.
Fair Dealing in India, in Plain Words
Indian copyright law uses the phrase “fair dealing” rather than “fair use”, and it is narrower than many creators assume. It allows using part of a protected work without permission for a short list of purposes: private or personal use including research, criticism or review of that work or another, and reporting current events. Teaching in an educational setting has its own allowance. The general idea is explained on the fair dealing overview.
What makes a use fair is not a fixed number of seconds. Reviewers look at the purpose, how much was taken compared with how much was needed, whether the clip is transformed by commentary or just replayed, and whether the video replaces the original for a viewer. Thirty seconds of a film with your voice over it explaining a camera technique is likely fair; the same thirty seconds as the whole payoff of a reaction video is not; the full song under a wedding montage is never fair dealing.
Nothing here decides a case. If you believe your use is fair, say so in a counter-notice with the reasons, and a person will weigh it. The platform cannot grant permission on a rights holder’s behalf, and a label such as “no infringement intended” has no effect at all.
Misuse of Copyright Notices
The process is built on two signed statements, and sending a notice you know to be false is a serious matter under Indian law as well as under the terms of use. Misuse includes claiming work you do not own, sending notices to silence criticism or a rival channel, naming many videos in the hope that some stick, and threatening uploaders privately to extract payment.
The review team sees patterns. Senders whose notices are repeatedly rejected are deprioritised, and clear abuse leads to their notices being refused and, where an account exists, to its suspension. Uploaders who receive a notice that looks like a shakedown, for example a demand for money by chat or email with no formal notice, should not pay; forward the message to the customer care team and, if money is demanded, report it on 1930.
Counter-notices can be misused too. A false counter-notice delays a legitimate removal and exposes the uploader to the claimant directly, since the claimant receives their contact details. Use it only when you genuinely believe the claim is wrong.
The Law Behind This Page
Two Indian laws shape this process. The Copyright Act, 1957 defines what is protected, who owns it, how long protection lasts and what fair dealing allows. The Information Technology Rules, 2021, published by the Ministry of Electronics and IT, set the duties of a platform that hosts user content: a grievance route, acknowledgement within 24 hours, resolution within 15 days, and removal of certain content within 36 hours of a lawful order. The 6E Club grievance team handles both kinds of complaint.
For background on registration and ownership, the Copyright Office of India is the primary source, and the World Intellectual Property Organization explains how protection works across borders, which matters because a notice can come from any country. Registration is not required for a work to be protected; it only makes ownership easier to prove. Protection also does not depend on a notice or symbol being shown on the work, so the absence of a © mark on a video or a song means nothing about whether it can be reused.
This page describes the platform’s own process and is not legal advice. For a dispute with real money or reputation at risk, speak to a lawyer who works with intellectual property in India.
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Stay Safe During a Dispute
A takedown exchange shares contact details between two people who may be angry with each other. Give a working email and the minimum postal detail the form requires, never a home address you would not print on a business card, and keep the conversation inside the reference-numbered thread so there is a record.
Be alert to fake notices. The real process always produces a reference number, arrives from the platform’s own address and never asks for a payment, a password or a one-time code. Anyone demanding money to “settle” a copyright claim by chat is running a scam: do not pay, block them, keep screenshots and report on 1930 if they persist.
Accounts are for people aged 13 and over; mature-content settings need 18+. Every video, comment and channel has a Report button, and reports are reviewed by people. Never share your password or a one-time code with anyone who contacts you in the name of 6E Club. Read the online safety guide for disputes and reports.
Questions People Ask
How do I report a copyright violation on 6E Club?
Open the takedown form from the Report button on the video or from the link on this page, choose the rights-holder option, and fill in the video links, a description of your work, your contact details and the two statements of good faith and accuracy. You receive an acknowledgement within 24 hours and, if the notice is complete, the video is hidden within 36 hours.
Can I email a takedown request instead of using the form?
Yes. Write to copyright@6e.app with the same information the form asks for: the exact video links, what the original work is and where it can be seen, your name and contact details, and the two signed statements. The form is faster because it checks for missing fields before sending, but an email with all the parts is treated identically.
What happens to my channel after one confirmed claim?
The video stays down, a strike is recorded for 90 days, and you get an email explaining the claim and your right to send a counter-notice. Everything else keeps working. A second confirmed claim removes your upload rights until an appeal succeeds, and a third ends the account, so one claim is the moment to check every other video for the same problem.
How long do I have to send a copyright counter-notice?
Ten days from the date of the removal email. The counter-notice must say why you believe the removal was a mistake, for example that the work is yours, that you hold a licence, or that the use is fair dealing, and must include your contact details and consent to be contacted by the claimant. After it is received, the claimant has a short window to respond before the video is restored.
Does background music in my own video count as infringement?
Usually yes, if the music is a commercial recording you do not have a licence for. The footage being yours does not change the status of the song. Use music that is clearly licensed for reuse, your own recordings, or none at all. Music claims are the most common confirmed claims on new channels and they count towards the repeat-infringer limit like any other.
Is a short clip for review or teaching allowed?
Sometimes. Indian law allows fair dealing for private study, research, criticism, review and reporting of current events, but only when the amount used and the purpose fit. A two-minute song under a dance video is not review; thirty seconds of a film with commentary over it may be. If a claim arrives, say so in a counter-notice and let a person decide.
In Short
A rights holder with the seven parts of a valid notice can expect an acknowledgement within 24 hours and the video hidden within 36 hours, through the form or by email. An uploader who disagrees has 10 days to counter, a reviewer weighs both sides, and a successful counter-notice restores the video with nothing lost.
Two confirmed claims end uploading and three end the account, so the first one is the time to check every other video, especially for music. Fair dealing exists in India but is narrow, credit is not permission, and a copyright notice sent in bad faith harms the sender. Make it yourself, license the rest, and this page stays something you read once.