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Takedowns & DMCA

How to request removal or re-tiering of hosted content.

Sophon hosts excerpts and metadata of third-party research artefacts under the policy described in our content policy. If you believe specific content is hosted in error or should be re-tiered, contact us and we will respond within 72 hours.

How to request a takedown

Send an email to support@sophon.at including:

  • The URL(s) of the affected page(s) on Sophon.
  • Your relationship to the content (author, rights-holder, agent).
  • What you want done - full takedown, abstract-only fallback, or license re-classification.
  • For DMCA notices: a statement under penalty of perjury that the information is accurate and that you are authorised to act on behalf of the rights-holder.

What happens next

  1. We acknowledge receipt within 24 hours.
  2. Affected content is hidden behind a placeholder while we review.
  3. We respond with a decision within 72 hours of acknowledgement.
  4. If we remove or re-tier content, the change applies to all of our caches, search indexes, and public APIs.

Counter-notices

If your content was removed in error, send a counter-notice to support@sophon.at including the original URL, your contact info, and a statement of good-faith belief that the removal was a mistake.

Repeat-infringer policy

We track takedown notices by ingestion source. Sources with repeat issues are downgraded to link-out only - metadata only, no caches, no extracted content.