Copyright & takedowns

How to ask for something to be taken down

Email hello@samo.world with the subject “Takedown”, and include:

1. your name and how to contact you (and who you act for, if it's on someone else's behalf);
2. what your work is — a link, or a description;
3. the link to where it is on samo (the page, shelf, post or picture);
4. a statement that you believe, in good faith, that it's being used without permission from you or the law;
5. a statement that what you've told us is accurate, and that you own the rights or are allowed to act for whoever does.

Members can also use Report on anything, and choose “Uses my work without permission”.

What happens next

• We'll normally remove or disable it within a few days of a complete request, and tell the member who posted it.
• If they believe it was a mistake — say they have permission — they can email us to explain, and we'll let you know. We may put it back if you don't take it further.
• Members who repeatedly post other people's work without permission will have their accounts closed.

Stickers in the banner maker

The banner maker's stickers are animated GIFs found on old GeoCities pages, through the Internet Archive's GifCities. Most were shared freely around the early web and their makers are unknown. If one of them is yours and you'd rather it wasn't here, email hello@samo.world with a link to the page it's on (or the sticker itself) and we'll take it out — no formal notice needed.

Things samo doesn't host

Some things on members' pages are shown straight from other services: YouTube videos, Apple Music song previews, Bandcamp's player, and album, film and book covers from sites like Deezer, Wikipedia and Open Library. For those, it's usually quickest to contact that service — but tell us too, and we'll remove it from samo.

Please don't misuse this

Only send a takedown request for your own work (or work you're allowed to act for). Knowingly false requests can have legal consequences.