Reporting Content and Copyright Takedowns

Last updated: October 6, 2026

If you find material on The Shoebox Archives that infringes your copyright or breaks our Acceptable Use Policy, tell us. This page explains how to report it, what happens next, and how an archive owner can respond.

Report a copyright infringement

Send your notice to our designated agent under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA):

Katie Smith
The Shoebox Archives
844 Bearhat Mountain Rd
Kalispell, MT 59901
Phone: 4066777118
Email: ks@shoeboxarchives.org

The law requires your notice to include:

  1. Your physical or electronic signature, as the copyright owner or someone authorized to act for them.
  2. A description of the copyrighted work you believe has been infringed.
  3. The address (URL) of each page or short link showing the material, so we can find it.
  4. Your name, postal address, telephone number and email address.
  5. A statement that you believe in good faith that the use 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 authorized to act for them.

If you knowingly claim that material infringes when it does not, you may be liable for damages.

Report other content

For anything else that breaks our Acceptable Use Policy, email support@shoeboxarchives.org with the address (URL) of the page or short link, and tell us what the problem is.

What happens after you report

  1. We confirm that we received your report.
  2. We review the reported material against the law and our Acceptable Use Policy. If a copyright notice is missing something the law requires, we tell you what is missing.
  3. Before we change anything, we keep a record of the report and of the material as it was.
  4. If the material breaks the law or our policy, we take it off public view. Where it is warranted, we remove it entirely.
  5. We tell the archive's owner what we did and why, unless the law or a child's safety requires otherwise.
  6. We record what we did, so the record of every report is complete.
  7. Material that appears to show the sexual abuse of a child is reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). We never share it with anyone else.

If your material was removed: counter-notice

When we remove material because of a copyright notice, we send the archive's owner a copy of the notice. If you believe material was removed because of a mistake or misidentification, you can send a counter-notice to our designated agent at the address above. It must include:

  1. Your physical or electronic signature.
  2. A description of the material that was removed, and the address (URL) where it appeared before it was removed.
  3. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you believe in good faith that the material was removed because of a mistake or misidentification.
  4. Your name, postal address and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district where your address is (or, if your address is outside the United States, any judicial district in which The Shoebox Archives may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice, or their agent.

When we receive a valid counter-notice, we send a copy to the person who sent the original notice. We restore the material between 10 and 14 business days after we receive the counter-notice, unless they tell us within that time that they have filed a court action to stop the infringement.

If you knowingly claim that material was removed by mistake when it was not, you may be liable for damages.

Repeat infringers

We close the accounts of repeat infringers, as our Acceptable Use Policy describes.