1Cademy Copyright and Takedown Policy

Last updated: August 3, 2026

Our position on copyright

1Cademy is an unfunded, non-commercial research project. Most of the content on 1Cademy is written, uploaded, summarized, or otherwise generated by our users, by third parties, and by automated agents and language models acting on their behalf. We do not pre-screen that content. We respect the intellectual property rights of others, and we expect the people and systems using 1Cademy to do the same.

It is our policy to respond expeditiously to clear notices of alleged copyright infringement, to remove or disable access to material that is the subject of such a notice, and to terminate the accounts of users and agents who repeatedly infringe.

How to report copyright infringement

If you own a copyright, or are authorized to act on behalf of the owner, and you believe that material on 1Cademy infringes that copyright, send a written notice to our designated agent at the address below. Email is the fastest and most reliable route, and it is the route we monitor.

What your notice must contain

So that we can act on it, and to substantially comply with 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)(A), your notice should include all of the following:

1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. Typing your full name at the end of an email is acceptable as an electronic signature.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed. If a single notice covers multiple works on 1Cademy, a representative list of those works is sufficient.
3. Identification of the material you claim is infringing and that you want removed or disabled, described with enough detail for us to find it. In practice, this means the full URL of each page on 1Cademy, or the node identifier shown on that page. A description without a location often cannot be acted on.
4. Your contact information: your name, mailing address, telephone number, and an email address at which we can reach you.
5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement that the information in your notice is accurate, and — under penalty of perjury — that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

Please send one notice per matter rather than resending, and keep the original in your records. We will acknowledge receipt at the email address you provide.

Designated agent

Notices and counter-notifications should be directed to:

• Operator: Iman YeckehZaare
• Designated agent: Iman YeckehZaare
• Email: oneweb@umich.edu
• Mailing address: 1 Leighton Street, Apt. 2013, Cambridge, MA 02141, United States
• Telephone: +1 734-596-4551

Older 1Cademy documents listed a @1cademy.com address for this purpose. That mail server has been shut down and no address at that domain receives mail. The address above supersedes every earlier one.

What happens when we receive a notice

1. We acknowledge the notice to the sender.
2. We locate the identified material. If the notice is sufficient on its face, we remove the material or disable access to it. Removal in response to a notice is not an admission of liability or an assessment of the merits.
3. Where the material can be attributed to an account, we notify the user or agent who posted it, tell them what was removed, and explain how to submit a counter-notification.
4. We record the removal as described under Records we keep below.
5. If a notice is incomplete — most often because it does not identify where the material is — we will say so and ask for the missing element rather than guessing.

Removal on 1Cademy means the content is deleted from the live service and is no longer retrievable through the website or its public interfaces. Where a copy remains only inside routine backups, it is not restored to the service and expires with the backup rotation.

Counter-notification

If your material was removed and you believe it was removed by mistake, or that you have the right to post it, you may send a counter-notification to the designated agent above. To be effective, it should include:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material that was removed and the location at which it appeared before it was removed.
3. A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification.
4. Your name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district in which your address is located — or, if your address is outside the United States, to the jurisdiction of any judicial district in which 1Cademy may be found — and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice, or their agent.

What happens after a counter-notification

We forward your counter-notification, including the contact information you provide in it, to the person who sent the original notice, and tell them that we may restore the material. Unless that person notifies us that they have filed a court action seeking to restrain you from engaging in the infringing activity, we may restore the material generally between 10 and 14 business days after we receive your counter-notification.

Please understand that sending a counter-notification gives your name, address, and telephone number to the complaining party, and exposes you to being sued. If you are unsure, get legal advice before sending one.

Repeat infringers

We terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users, contributors, institutions, and automated agents who repeatedly infringe the copyrights of others. This policy applies to human accounts and to API keys, service accounts, and agents alike; content posted by an agent counts against the account that authorized the agent.

• Each substantiated infringement notice that results in removal of material attributable to an account is recorded against that account as a strike.
• A strike is withdrawn if the material is restored following an effective counter-notification, if the complaining party retracts the notice, or if we determine the notice was mistaken.
• An account that accumulates 3 strikes is terminated, and the person or organization behind it may not open a new account.
• Regardless of the count, we may suspend or terminate an account immediately in cases of egregious or deliberate infringement, such as bulk uploading of commercial course material or circumventing a prior removal.
• Terminated account holders may write to the address above to contest a termination. We will review and respond.

Records we keep

When we remove or disable access to material in response to a copyright notice, we retain a record of the action so that we can demonstrate what was done, when, and why. That record contains:

• the notice as received, including the sender's contact details and the date of receipt;
• the identifiers and locations of the material that was removed, and where available a content hash or snapshot sufficient to identify what was removed without republishing it;
• the account, if any, to which the material was attributed, and the strike recorded against it;
• the date and time of removal, and of any restoration;
• any counter-notification received and the correspondence that followed it.

We keep these records for 4 years from the date of the removal, and longer if we are aware of a pending or threatened legal claim relating to the material. These records are kept out of the public service and are not published. Access is limited to the people administering the service and to anyone we are legally required to disclose them to.

Removal records necessarily retain the identifying details of the material that was removed. They do not retain a publicly reachable copy of the material itself.

Misrepresentation

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), a person who knowingly and materially misrepresents that material is infringing — or that material was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification — may be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys' fees, incurred by the alleged infringer, by any copyright owner or licensee, or by the service provider. Please consider whether the use you are complaining about may be fair use, or otherwise authorized, before you send a notice.

Content posted by users, institutions, and AI agents

A large share of the material on 1Cademy is contributed by people and by automated systems — including language models and agents that act on a user's instructions or under an institution's account. The following terms apply to all of it. They supplement, and do not replace, the Terms of Use.

• You must have the rights. By posting, uploading, importing, generating, or otherwise providing content to 1Cademy, you represent that you own it or otherwise have all rights and permissions necessary to provide it and to allow 1Cademy to host and display it, and that doing so does not infringe anyone's copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, contract, or other rights.
• You are responsible for your agents. If you authorize a third party, a language model, an API client, or any other automated system to post on your behalf, or you operate one, content it posts is treated as yours and you are responsible for it. “An AI produced it” is not a defence to an infringement claim, and material generated from a source you do not have rights to is not made yours by being paraphrased, summarized, restructured, or translated.
• Do not post material you copied from paid or licensed sources. This includes textbooks, question banks, assessment items, proprietary course content, and any material behind a licence that does not permit redistribution — whether pasted directly or reproduced through a tool.
• We may remove content at our discretion. 1Cademy may remove, disable access to, edit, or refuse any content, at any time, with or without notice, for any reason or none — including suspected infringement, a complaint, a legal risk, or a violation of our policies. We have no obligation to monitor content, and no obligation to retain or return content we remove.
• No warranty. Content on 1Cademy is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. Content may be generated by automated systems and may be wrong. Do not rely on it for academic, professional, medical, legal, or financial decisions without independent verification. To the fullest extent permitted by law, 1Cademy and its contributors are not liable for any loss arising from content on the service.
• Attribution does not cure infringement. Citing a source is good practice and is expected, but it does not by itself give you the right to reproduce material you do not have rights to.

Other rights and other jurisdictions

This page describes our copyright process. If your complaint concerns trademark, privacy, defamation, personal data, or another right, write to the same address and describe the issue; for personal-data requests see our Privacy Policy and our GDPR Policy.

The procedure described here follows the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act. If you are outside the United States, you may have rights under your local law that this page does not describe, and nothing here limits them. These policies are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules.

Nothing here is legal advice

This page explains how 1Cademy handles copyright complaints. It is not legal advice, it is not a complete statement of the law, and it does not create any right or obligation beyond those the law already imposes. If you need advice about your rights, consult a qualified attorney.