Copyright

What is here, and where it came from

Dictionaryish collects what things mean to people: definitions, quotations, trivia, one-liners, jokes and images, gathered around concepts. A great deal of it is quoted or excerpted from somewhere else, and it is credited wherever we hold the information to credit it. Where we do not, that is a gap in our records rather than a claim about yours.

If something here is yours

If you own rights in something published here and you would rather it were not, tell us and we will take it down. You do not need a lawyer to ask, you do not need to use any particular form of words, and we would far rather hear from you early than late.

Write to admin@dictionaryish.com. So that we can act quickly rather than write back asking, it helps enormously to include:

• The address of the page the material appears on. A link is ideal.
• Which item on it you mean. A single page here can hold dozens of definitions, quotations and images, so telling us the page alone often is not enough.
• What the work is, and what your relationship to it is — whether you are the rights holder or acting for one.
• How to reach you.

Our designated agent

Dictionaryish LLC has registered a designated agent with the United States Copyright Office to receive notices of claimed infringement, as provided in 17 U.S.C. § 512(c). Registration number DMCA-1080447. The registration can be looked up in the Copyright Office’s public directory of designated agents.

Copyright Agent
Dictionaryish LLC
admin@dictionaryish.com

Email reaches us fastest. The agent’s full postal details, as filed, are in the Copyright Office directory linked above. Nothing here replaces the informal route described on this page — you are welcome to simply write and tell us, and most people should.

What happens next

We aim to reply within a few days. Where the claim is clear, we remove the material first and discuss it afterwards — we would rather take something down that turns out to be fine than leave something up that is not.

If we have removed something of yours and you believe that was a mistake, write to the same address and say so. We will look again.

Corrections and attribution

Not every problem is a request for removal. If a quotation here is misattributed, garbled or credited to the wrong source, that is a thing we want to fix rather than defend, and the same address reaches us. Corrections are welcome from anyone, not only from rights holders.

Repeated infringement

Accounts that repeatedly post material they have no right to post will be closed.

A note on this page

This describes what we do, in plain words, rather than reciting a statute. It is an interim statement of practice written before a lawyer has reviewed it, and it will be replaced by a fuller formal policy. Nothing here limits any right you have, and asking us informally does not waive anything you might do formally.

The Terms of Use and Privacy Policy cover the rest.