DMCA & Copyright Policy
Where we stand on copyright
AN TV NEWS respects copyright, our own and everyone else’s, and we expect the same in return. Reporting the news means quoting, linking, describing and, within the bounds of fair use and fair dealing, showing material that other people created. We try to stay inside those bounds. When we get it wrong, we want to hear about it and put it right quickly, and this page tells you how.
It also tells you what to do if you think your work has appeared here without permission. We follow the notice-and-takedown approach set out in the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and we apply the same fair process to rights holders wherever they are based, whichever law protects them.
How we use other people’s material
Our default is to link rather than copy. Where a story quotes a document, a statement or another outlet’s reporting, we keep the extract to what the story needs and we attribute it. Photographs and video are used under licence, with permission, or where a clear fair-use or fair-dealing basis exists for reporting on the material itself, and we credit the source where one is known.
We do not knowingly publish anyone’s copyrighted work beyond what the law permits. If we have overstepped, that is a mistake to fix, not a position to defend, and the fastest way to fix it is a clear notice from the person who holds the rights.
Filing a takedown notice
If you own the rights to material you believe we have used without authorisation, send a notice to support@antv.news with DMCA at the front of the subject line. To be actionable, and to let us move fast, your notice needs to include the following.
- Enough detail to identify the copyrighted work you say has been infringed.
- The exact location of the material on our site, as a direct link to the page, so we are not guessing which item you mean.
- Your name, and a way to reach you, so we can respond and, where needed, pass your contact to the person who posted the material.
- A statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised by you, your agent or the law.
- A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the rights holder or authorised to act for them.
- Your physical or electronic signature.
A notice missing these parts may be unactionable, and we may come back to you for what is missing rather than guess. Please do not send a takedown for material that is plainly fair use, such as a short quotation with a link, or for a factual report you simply dislike. Facts are not copyrightable, and a correction request for something inaccurate belongs in our corrections policy, not here.
What happens after a valid notice
When we receive a notice that checks out, we act promptly. We will remove or disable access to the material in question, and where it was posted by a reader or contributor we will tell them what happened and pass on your notice so they can respond. We keep a record of notices, because a pattern of them is how we identify a repeat problem.
Removing something on receipt of a notice is not us agreeing that infringement occurred. It is us following the process. The question of who is right is separate, and the counter-notice below is how the other side is heard.
Counter-notices
If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or that your use was lawful, you can file a counter-notice to the same address with COUNTER-NOTICE in the subject. It should identify the material and where it appeared before removal, include your contact details, and carry a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed by mistake or misidentification, together with your consent to the jurisdiction of the appropriate court and your signature.
Where the law provides for it, we may restore the material after the applicable waiting period unless the original complainant tells us they have filed a court action. We are a newsroom, not a court. Our role is to run a fair process and keep out of a dispute that belongs to the two sides and, if it comes to it, a judge.
Repeat infringers, and our own rights
We will, in appropriate cases and at our discretion, disable the accounts of readers or contributors who repeatedly post infringing material. A free comment section is not a licence to use it as a copying machine.
The traffic runs both ways. Our own reporting, layout, and the images we create or license are protected, and the terms on which you may quote and link to them are set out in our terms of service. If you find our work republished in full somewhere it should not be, we would be glad to know. Write to support@antv.news, and other ways to reach us are on our contact page.
Last updated: August 2026
