Copyright and DMCA Policy

Last updated October 25th, 2026.

Shortlist is run by BLRB Digital LLC ("we" and "us"). We respect copyright, and we expect everyone who uses Shortlist to do the same. This page explains how to tell us about content on Shortlist that you believe infringes your copyright, what we do when we get a notice, how the person who posted the content can respond, and what happens to accounts that infringe more than once. It follows the notice and takedown process of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. 512). It explains the copyright section of our Terms of Service in more detail.

What this policy covers

This policy covers all of Shortlist: the Shortlist apps for iPhone and Android and the website at shortlist.watch. It matters most for content that Shortlist users post and other people can see:

Profiles: display names, usernames, bios and profile photos.
Lists: list names, descriptions and cover photos, including lists that people build together.
Rankings, and the reviews and notes people write about the movies and shows they rank.
Comments on other people's rankings and posts, and comments in live events.

Public profiles and public lists can also be seen on the web, at addresses that start with shortlist.watch/u/ (profiles) and shortlist.watch/list/ (lists). Our own articles, tier lists, guides and newsletter are covered by this policy too.

Movie and TV posters, artwork and details on Shortlist come from TMDB (The Movie Database), and trailers in the apps play from YouTube. If your notice is about one of those, you can send it to us and we will act on what appears on Shortlist. You may also want to contact TMDB or YouTube, which host the originals.

Our copyright agent

Send copyright notices and counter-notices to our designated copyright agent:

Email is the fastest way to reach us. Please put "Copyright notice" or "Counter-notice" in the subject line. A person on our team reads every notice.

Before you send a notice

Only the copyright owner, or someone authorized to act for the owner (such as a lawyer or an agent), can send a notice. Copyright law also allows some uses without permission, known as fair use, such as quoting or showing part of a work in a review, a comment or criticism. Please think about whether the use could be fair use before you send a notice. If you are not sure whether something infringes your copyright, consider talking to a lawyer first.

How to send a notice

Your notice must be in writing and include all of the following:

Your physical or electronic signature, as the copyright owner or as a person authorized to act for the owner. Typing your full name at the end of an email is fine.
A description of the copyrighted work you believe has been infringed. If one notice covers several works on Shortlist, a representative list of those works is enough.
A description of the material you believe is infringing and that you want removed, with enough detail for us to find it. A link (URL) is best. For something in the app that has no link, give the username of the person who posted it and where it appears (for example, the cover photo of one of their lists, or their review of a particular movie). A screenshot helps.
Your name, mailing address, phone number and email address.
A statement that you believe in good faith that the use of the material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
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 for the owner.

If your notice leaves something out but includes items 2, 3 and 4, we will try to contact you to get the missing details. We may not be able to act on a notice until it is complete.

The Report button in the app is the quickest way to flag content that breaks our rules. For a copyright claim, please send a written notice to our copyright agent with everything listed above, so that we have what the law asks for.

What we do when we receive a notice

A person on our team reviews it.
When a notice is complete, we quickly remove the material or disable access to it.
We tell the person who posted it what we removed, why, and how to send a counter-notice. We may send them a copy of your notice, including your name and contact details, so they know who made the claim and can respond. If you would rather not share your own details, a lawyer or other authorized agent can send the notice for you.
We keep a record of the notice against that person's account (see "Repeat infringers" below).
We reply to let you know what we did.

Counter-notice

If we removed your content because of a copyright notice and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you can send our copyright agent a counter-notice. It must be in writing and include all of the following:

Your physical or electronic signature. Typing your full name at the end of an email is fine.
A description of the material that was removed or disabled, and where it appeared on Shortlist before that (a link, or your username and where it appeared in the app).
A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you believe in good faith that the material was removed or disabled because of a mistake or a misidentification of the material.
Your name, mailing address and phone 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 BLRB Digital LLC may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice or that person's agent.

Please also include your email address so we can reach you quickly.

When we receive a complete counter-notice, we promptly send a copy of it, including your name and contact details, to the person who sent the original notice, and tell them that we will put the material back in 10 business days. We then restore the material, or stop disabling access to it, 10 to 14 business days after we received your counter-notice, unless our copyright agent first hears from the person who sent the original notice that they have filed a court action seeking an order to stop you from infringing with that material on Shortlist. We can still remove content that breaks our Terms of Service for another reason.

A counter-notice can lead to a lawsuit against you in the court named in it, so consider talking to a lawyer before you send one.

Repeat infringers

We keep a record of the valid notices we receive against each account. When an account has three valid notices that were not resolved by a successful counter-notice or withdrawn by the person who sent them, we close the account. We may close an account sooner, even after a single notice, when the infringement is clear or deliberate. A person whose account we closed for infringement may not open a new Shortlist account.

False notices and counter-notices

Under 17 U.S.C. 512(f), anyone who knowingly and materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that it was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, can be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys' fees, to the person harmed, the copyright owner, or us.

Other complaints

This page is only for copyright. For anything else, such as a trademark, privacy, impersonation, harassment or other illegal content, use Report in the app or email admin@blrbdigital.com. If you are in Europe, you can also follow the steps in Reporting illegal content in our Terms of Service. For how we handle personal information, see our Privacy Policy.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The date at the top of this page shows when it last changed.