Copyright claims

If someone re-uploaded your map, a formal copyright notice works and is the right tool. But a report on the map itself often resolves it faster and reaches the same moderators, and it does not require you to make legal statements under penalty of perjury.

Use the notice below when you want a formal, recorded claim — or when a report has already been dealt with and you disagree with the outcome.

These are the elements a copyright notice needs to be actionable. The form below collects all of them, which is why it exists — an incomplete notice is one we have to send back, and that costs you another day.

1. Enough detail to identify the work you say was infringed.
2. A link to the map on Flamezam that you say infringes it.
3. Your name and an email address we can reply to.
4. A statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
5. A statement that the information is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act for them.
6. Your electronic signature — your full name typed out.

Your notice enters the moderation queue with a status, not an inbox. A person reads it and replies to the address you gave.

If we uphold it, the map is removed and its uploader is told what was claimed and by whom. That last part is not incidental: they cannot file a counter-notice against a claim they have not seen.

Accounts that repeatedly infringe are suspended, and then banned. Re-uploading someone else’s work is one of the few things here that can cost an account on a first offence.

If you believe your map was removed by mistake or misidentification, reply to the notice we sent you, or write to contact@flamezam.com with:

• which map it was;
• why you believe the removal was wrong;
• your name and contact details;
• a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you believe in good faith the map was removed as a result of a mistake or misidentification.

We will pass it to the claimant. Being wrong in good faith is not something you get punished for here — it happens, and it is why counter-notices exist.

Filing a claim you know to be false has legal consequences, and it wastes moderation time that a real dispute needed. Do not use copyright claims to attack a competing map or settle an argument.

Notices sent by email are read at the same address as everything else: