BentBox Copyright Policy

• As a market place for content and information, it is not possible to provide you with the Service without your agreement that BentBox.co may be required to modify, crop, frame, resize or otherwise modify your Content in order for it to be distributed to and delivered through the website;
• CDNs (Content Delivery Networks, e.g. Google Images) are automated 3rd party services used for the promotion and distribution of Content, and are not controlled by BentBox.co. This may result in unexpected (re)use, duplication, modification, adaption, processing, reproduction, publication, display and distribution of content uploaded to BentBox.co
• BentBox.co may change the methods used to display Content on the site from time to time, which may automatically apply styles, templates, or other modifications such as thumbnails, frames or crops in order to provide a standard user or viewer experience.

You acknowledge that the nature of automated Content Delivery Network mechanisms means it is possible BentBox.co will not be aware of specific scenarios that may eventuate, and may not be able to do anything to prevent misuse. As a result, you retain the right to remove your content from BentBox.co, and will not hold BentBox.co responsible for unauthorised use outside of BentBox.co’s control.

It is BentBox.co's policy, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, to disable and/or terminate the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe or are repeatedly charged with infringing the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of others.

European copyright law applies to actions that take place in the Netherlands, even if the material used was created or first published in another country.

For further information about copyright, visit the European Copyright website,

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/eu-copyright-legislation

If you are a copyright owner, or are authorised to act on behalf of one, or authorised to act under any exclusive right under copyright, report alleged infringement taking place on or through the Site using the notice form below. On receipt of a Notice containing the elements described in this policy, BentBox will take whatever action it deems appropriate, including removal of the challenged material.

If you are a BentBox creator and your content has been leaked to another site, that is the opposite direction. See Content Leaks & DMCA Takedown Requests.

Licensing Agreement

Users paying to open BentBox boxes (in order to access the content of the boxes) implicitly agree to respect the Licensing Agreement set by the content publisher for each individual Box.

The download of content is enabled by default with all licensing agreements apart from "Personal use without download".

Licenses for shareable content by Creative Commons.

1. Attribution
2. Attribution-ShareAlike
3. Attribution-NoDerivs
4. Attribution-NonCommercial
5. Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
6. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

Privately available content ("All right reserved") should be licensed as "Personal Use Without Download" or "Personal Use With Dowload".

1. Personal use with download
2. Personal use without download

Sellers can write their own Custom Licenses.

Custom Licenses

Content protection and authorised use

The content author or content creator is the owner of copyright.

BentBox users must have written consent (e.g. model release form) for public and commercial use from any individuals portrayed in images, videos, and other content.

The buyer of a Box can use the content only within the boundaries set by the licensing agreement. Any other user could be considered infringement of copyright.

Any form of content trading ("swapping") is considered content piracy and it is strictly prohibited. This would be considered infringement of copyright and could have legal consequences for all parties involved in any non authorised transactions of content.

Example: if a buyer purchases access to a Box with the licensing agreement set to "Personal use with download", the buyer is not authorised to share the downloadable content with any other party.

Notice of Alleged Infringement ("Notice").

1. Identify the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed, or - if multiple copyrighted works are covered by this Notice - you may provide a representative list of the copyrighted works that you claim have been infringed.
2. Identify (i) the material that you claim is infringing (or to be the subject of infringing activity) and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material, including at a minimum, if applicable, the URL of the link shown on the Site where such material may be found, and (ii) the reference or link, to the material or activity that you claim to be infringing, that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate that reference or link, including at a minimum, if applicable, the URL of the link shown on the Site where such reference or link may be found.
3. Provide your mailing address, telephone number, and, if available, email address.
4. Include both of the following statements in the body of the Notice:

   "I hereby state that I have a good faith belief that the disputed use of the copyrighted material or reference or link to such material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law (e.g., as a fair use)."

   "I hereby state that the information in this Notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that I am the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of the copyright or of an exclusive right under the copyright that is allegedly infringed."

5. Provide your full legal name and your electronic or physical signature.

Submit this Notice, with all items completed, through the copyright notice form. The form asks for each element in the order above, including a separate block for each work, so that nothing has to be returned to you for a missing item. A Notice containing all of the elements above is valid however it reaches us, including by email to our designated agent, but a notice sent to general support will lose time in transit.

How we assess a Notice

We do not remove content automatically on receipt of a Notice. Every item published on BentBox carries verified uploader identity, a digital model release naming each person depicted, records kept to the standard required under 18 U.S.C. § 2257, a content provenance entry, and a timestamped upload log.

When a Notice identifies a work, we compare the material at the reported URL against that work and against the records held for the item, then either remove it or reply explaining what we found. The most common inaccurate claim we receive is against a creator’s own authorised upload, reported by an enforcement agency that matched an image found elsewhere online. Acting on such a notice without checking would remove a creator’s income at the request of a party purporting to act for that same creator.

Every Notice is logged with its sender, its contents and our decision. Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), a person who knowingly and materially misrepresents that material is infringing is liable for the resulting damages and legal costs, including those incurred by the uploader. Repeated unsubstantiated notices from one source affect how later notices from that source are queued.

What if I receive a Copyright Complaint (DMCA) notification?

If you receive a notification that a Box has been removed due a copyright complaint, it means that the Box’s content has been deleted from BentBox.co at the request of the content's owner. If your account receives too many copyright complaints, you may lose the ability to post new content on BentBox.co, and your account may be disabled completely.

If you believe a Box was removed in error, you have the option to file a counter-notice by following the steps below. When we receive a valid counter-notice, we will forward a copy to the person who filed the original complaint.

If we do not receive notice that the submitter of the original complaint is seeking a court order to prevent further infringement of the content at issue, we will restore the material not less than 10 and not more than 14 business days after receiving your counter-notice, and remove the complaint from your account’s record.

All funds resulting from sales of the content being disputed are witheld until resolution. Once the copyright ownership has been determined, the funds are made available to the copyright owner of the content.

Note: There are legal and financial consequences for fraudulent and/or bad faith submissions. Before submitting a counter-notice, be sure that you are the actual rights holder of the removed content or that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed in error, and understand the repercussions of submitting a false claim.

How to File a Counter-Notice

Send your counter-notice to our designated agent at copyright@bentbox.co, quoting the reference from the removal notice you received. It must include all of the following:

• a.Your full name, address, and telephone number.
• b.Identification of the material that was removed, and the location at which it appeared before it was removed. Copy the link from the notification email.
• c.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.
• d.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 BentBox may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original Notice or from that person’s agent.
• e.A physical or electronic signature, for example typing your full name.

A counter-notice missing item (d) is not effective and we cannot act on it. That item is what allows the original complainant to bring the dispute before a court, and it is the element most often left out.

Non-consensual intimate content

Not every removal request is a copyright question. If intimate images or video of you have been published here without your agreement, copyright is the wrong instrument and the slower one — it asks you to prove ownership of a work rather than to state that you did not consent.

Report it instead through the non-consensual content route. You do not need to own any copyright in the material, you do not need a BentBox account, and you are not asked to identify a work. We review these ahead of all other requests and confirm the outcome within 48 hours. This applies equally to AI-generated and digitally altered depictions.

We check every such report against the identity verification and model release we hold for the item. Where we cannot establish that consent covered publication here, the material is removed. Counter-notification does not apply to removals made on this ground.

Notices under EU law

BentBox is operated from the European Union by Haas & Reed B.V. Article 16 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (the Digital Services Act) is therefore the operative notice and action mechanism, alongside the process set out above. A notice submitted under Article 16 should contain a sufficiently substantiated explanation of why the content is unlawful, a clear indication of its exact electronic location such as the precise URL, the name and email address of the person or entity submitting it, and a statement confirming a bona fide belief that the information is accurate and complete.

The same requirement applies in substance: a notice that names a person and links to profile pages does not substantiate anything, because it never explains which work is unlawfully present or why. The removal form collects what both regimes require.

Repeat infringers

BentBox adopts and implements a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe the copyright or other intellectual property rights of others. Uploads removed following a valid Notice are recorded against the uploading account. Accumulated records lead to suspension of the ability to publish new content and, on continued repetition, to termination of the account. Records attached to material restored after an effective counter-notice, or to notices we decline as unsubstantiated, are cleared and do not count towards termination.

Funds arising from sales of disputed content are withheld until the dispute is resolved, and are then released to the party established as the rights holder.

Designated agent

This policy was last reviewed on 12 September 2026. BentBox is operated by Haas & Reed B.V., Mantelmeeuwhof 15, 3582 DN Utrecht, Netherlands.