DMCA Policy

Last updated: 3 September 2026. Version 1.0.

Artevivo Magazine respects the intellectual property of others and expects the same in return. This page sets out how to notify us of material on artevivomagazine.com that you believe infringes your copyright, how we handle such notices, and how a person whose material has been removed can dispute that removal.

We operate from Italy and are subject to Italian and EU law, in particular Law No. 633 of 22 April 1941 on copyright, Legislative Decree No. 70 of 9 April 2003 implementing the E-Commerce Directive, Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (the Digital Services Act) and Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright in the Digital Single Market. Because our readership is substantially in the United States and our infrastructure may be served from there, we also operate a notice and takedown procedure modelled on the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512. Either route reaches the same address and produces the same result.

1. Designated agent for notices

Send all copyright notices to:

Copyright Agent, Artevivo Edizioni S.r.l.
Via Giuseppe Ripamonti 44, 20141 Milano (MI), Italy
Email: [email protected]
PEC: [email protected]
Telephone: +39 02 8734 6120

Email is the fastest route and is the one we recommend. Notices sent to any other address, posted as a comment, or sent through social media may not be seen and will not start the clock.

2. Before you send a notice

A great deal of what we publish is lawfully used, and a notice sent in haste costs you time and us time. Please consider the following first.

  • Public domain works. Reproductions of paintings, sculpture, prints and photographs whose copyright term has expired are not infringing. In Italy and across the EU, copyright in an artistic work generally expires 70 years after the death of the author. A faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional public domain artwork does not, in most European jurisdictions, generate a fresh copyright.
  • Freely licensed images. Many of our images are used under Creative Commons or similar licences and are credited with the photographer’s name and the licence in the caption. If you are the photographer and the attribution is wrong or missing, that is a licence compliance issue and we will fix it immediately on request — you do not need a formal takedown notice, and a short email to the same address is enough.
  • Quotation and criticism. Short quotations for the purposes of criticism, review, discussion and news reporting, with attribution, are permitted under Article 70 of the Italian copyright law and Article 5(3)(d) of Directive 2001/29/EC.
  • Facts are not copyright. Dates, dimensions, provenance and historical events are facts. That an institution first published a fact does not give it copyright in that fact, though the particular expression of it is protected.

If, having considered the above, you still believe your rights are infringed, please proceed.

3. What a valid notice must contain

To be effective, your notice must include all of the following. A notice missing any element cannot be acted on and we will write back asking for the missing part, which delays removal.

  1. Your identity and standing. Your full name, postal address, telephone number and email address, and a statement of whether you are the owner of the exclusive right allegedly infringed or a person authorised to act on the owner’s behalf. If you are acting for someone else, say for whom, and in what capacity.
  2. Identification of the protected work. A description of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed, sufficient for us to identify it. Where possible, give a URL at which the authorised version can be seen, a registration number, or the date and place of first publication. If your notice covers multiple works on our Site, a representative list is acceptable.
  3. Identification of the material to be removed. The exact URL or URLs on artevivomagazine.com where the material appears, and, where the page contains several images or passages, an indication of which one you mean. “Somewhere on your site” is not sufficient.
  4. A statement of good faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent or the law.
  5. A statement of accuracy that the information in the notice is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act on the owner’s behalf.
  6. A signature, physical or electronic, of a person authorised to act on behalf of the owner of the right allegedly infringed. Typing your full name at the foot of an email from a verifiable address constitutes an electronic signature for this purpose.

4. What we do when a notice arrives

  1. We acknowledge receipt within two working days.
  2. We assess the notice for completeness. If elements are missing, we write to you identifying them.
  3. Where the notice is complete and the claim is not manifestly unfounded, we expeditiously remove or disable access to the identified material. We do this without prejudging the merits: removal is not an admission that infringement occurred.
  4. We notify the author or contributor responsible for the material, giving them a copy of the notice, and we tell them how to file a counter-notice.
  5. Where an image is removed but the article remains, we usually replace it with an alternative or leave a caption explaining that an image was removed following a rights claim.
  6. We record the notice, our assessment and the action taken. These records are retained for five years, in line with our Privacy Policy.

5. Counter-notice

If your material has been removed and you believe the removal was the result of mistake or misidentification — for example because the work is in the public domain, because you hold a licence, or because the use is permitted by law — you may send a counter-notice to [email protected] containing:

  1. your full name, postal address, telephone number and email address;
  2. identification of the material that was removed and the location at which it appeared before removal;
  3. a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification;
  4. a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the courts of Milan, Italy, and, if you are outside Italy, of any judicial district in which the complainant may be found or in which our service provider is located, and that you will accept service of process from the person who submitted the original notice or that person’s agent;
  5. your physical or electronic signature.

On receipt of a complete counter-notice, we forward a copy to the original complainant. If the complainant does not notify us within ten to fourteen working days that they have commenced proceedings seeking a court order restraining the relevant activity, we may restore the material.

6. Complaints under EU law and the Digital Services Act

Nothing in this procedure limits your rights under Italian or EU law. You may notify us of allegedly illegal content of any kind, not only copyright infringement, using the same address. Where we act on such a notice by removing or restricting content, we will give the affected user a clear and specific statement of reasons explaining what was removed, on what ground, and how the decision may be contested, in accordance with Article 17 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065.

We may also act on our own initiative where we identify content that infringes rights or breaches our Terms and Conditions.

7. Abuse of this procedure

A takedown notice is a serious legal instrument. Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f) a person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing may be liable for damages, including costs and legal fees, incurred by the alleged infringer and by the service provider. Comparable liability arises in Italian law for abuse of process and for wrongful interference with the freedom of expression.

We treat notices sent to suppress legitimate journalism, criticism or reporting of matters of public interest with particular care, and we will refuse manifestly unfounded notices, publish the fact that a notice was received where the public interest requires it, and take advice on our remedies. Where a complainant repeatedly submits notices that are manifestly unfounded, we may suspend processing of their notices for a reasonable period, as permitted by Article 23 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065.

8. Repeat infringement

We terminate the account or contributor relationship of anyone who is a repeat infringer of copyright, and we do not publish material from a contributor who has supplied infringing material more than once.

9. If you are the subject of an article

Requests to remove or amend editorial content on grounds other than copyright — accuracy, privacy, reputation, or a request under the right to be forgotten — are not handled under this policy. Write to [email protected] or, for factual corrections, to [email protected]. Requests of that kind are assessed against the public interest in the material remaining available, and the journalistic derogation described in section 4 of our Privacy Policy applies.