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DMCA & Copyright Policy

This page runs in both directions: what we own and how to reuse it, and what to do if you think we have used something of yours without the right to. Last updated: August 2026.

What we own

The reporting, the headlines, the explanations inside each piece, the Spanish glossary entries, the photographs and graphics we made and the arrangement of the pages belong to the publisher or are used under licence. Free to read is not the same as free to take.

The glossary side gets copied most, and the copies are easy to spot because those sentences follow a rule nobody else bothers with: an unfamiliar term is never explained by reaching for a second one. We have found our own entries word for word on aggregator pages with the byline stripped.

Quoting us, which we like, and republishing us, which we do not

Quote a passage, name Significadopedia in the sentence where you use it, and link to the piece in the copy rather than in a credit line at the foot where nobody looks. That is the standard we hold ourselves to when another outlet breaks a story, set out in our editorial standards. It needs no permission and no email.

What needs permission is anything approaching the whole thing: a full article on your site, a close rewrite in the same order, a translation of one of our explanations, our photographs and charts on their own, or a machine-made summary reproducing the substance. A translated explanation is still our explanation, and that is the reuse people assume is fine. Bulk collection and model training are dealt with in our terms of service, where the answer is no unless licensed.

Reprints, syndication and licensing

We do licence this material. Publishers already pay to run our explainer material, which is why the corrections chain on our reference pages reaches other people’s sites. Write to support@significadopedia.com with Licensing in the subject line and say which pieces, in what language, for what audience, for how long.

Teachers and students reproducing a page for a class or a thesis get a yes and no invoice, usually inside two working days. One condition rides on every licence: corrections travel with the copy. When we fix a definition, licensees are told and expected to apply the fix, because one wrong definition is not wrong once, it is wrong everywhere it was reprinted.

Sending us a copyright complaint

If material here infringes a copyright you own or control, send a notice and we will act on it. To be valid under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. section 512, a notice must contain all of the following, and one missing an element may be one we cannot act on.

Send it to support@significadopedia.com with DMCA notice in the subject line. It reaches the publisher’s designated copyright agent, a role held by a member of the founding editorial team rather than by a legal department we do not have, so yes, it lands in the same inbox as everything else, as our contact page admits.

  • Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed, or a representative list where several are involved.
  • Identification of the material complained of, with enough detail to find it: the page address and the position on the page.
  • Your contact details: name, postal address, telephone number and email address.
  • A statement that you have a good faith belief the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
  • A statement that the information is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner or authorised to act for the owner.
  • Your physical or electronic signature.

What we do when a notice arrives

We acknowledge receipt within two working days and read the notice ourselves rather than routing it to a queue. Where it is valid we remove or disable access to the material expeditiously, and where the material came from a user we tell them and pass on the notice.

If we think you are wrong we say so in writing and explain why, instead of quietly leaving the file open. Fair dealing and fair use let a news outlet quote and illustrate what it reports on, and we will defend a short quotation or a still identifying a story’s subject. Where a complaint is really about coverage, our corrections policy is the route that can help, and it moves faster than any takedown.

Counter-notification

If your material came down and you think that was a mistake, send a counter-notice to the same address. It needs your signature, identification of what was removed and where it sat before removal, a statement under penalty of perjury of your good faith belief that the removal was an error, your name, address and telephone number, a statement consenting to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the district of your address, or, if your address is outside the United States, to any judicial district in which we may be found, and your consent to accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice.

We forward a valid counter-notice to the complainant. Unless they tell us they have gone to court to restrain the activity, we restore the material in not less than ten and not more than fourteen business days. We give you the date we expect to put it back.

Repeat infringers, and notices sent in bad faith

Comment and contributor accounts drawing repeated valid complaints are terminated, and there is no scheme for buying a way back. We keep a record of notices against each account so the word repeated means something we can point at.

The other warning runs the other way. Section 512(f) makes a person who knowingly misrepresents that material is infringing liable for damages and costs, including the other side’s legal fees. We have had takedown notices that were reputation management in a copyright costume, filed over a photograph in a story the subject disliked rather than over any right they held. Those get refused and kept on file.