DRAFT — ATTORNEY REVIEW REQUIRED BEFORE PUBLISHING
Counsel to confirm the instrument is scoped as an agency appointment under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)(A)(vi) and carries none of the characteristics of a power of attorney. Strategy §8.9 is explicit: a POA is a distinct instrument, requires notarization or witnesses in several states, imports fiduciary duties nobody intends, and drafted by a non-lawyer for a consumer is squarely document preparation. The carve-out in §4 below is verbatim from the strategy document and must survive review intact.
What you sign, and what it does not let us do.
Before we can file a single notice for you, you sign one document. It is one page. This page explains every line of it before you see it, because a document that arrives unexplained at the moment you are already frightened is not consent, it is momentum.
§1 — The first thing to know: this is not a power of attorney
Some services in this category call this document a "limited power of attorney." Ours is not one, and the difference is not cosmetic.
A power of attorney is a separate instrument. In several US states it requires notarization or witnesses. It can carry duties and authorities far broader than anything needed here. It can be read to let someone act for you in matters you never contemplated.
What you sign here is a Letter of Authorization. Its full name is Letter of Authorization (Agency Appointment under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)(A)(vi)). It appoints us as your agent for four specific, named, listed acts. It does nothing else, and it says so in its own text.
The reason the statute matters is short. § 512(c)(3)(A)(vi) requires a takedown notice to carry the signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf. This letter is what makes us that person for your work. Nothing more is required, so we ask for nothing more.
§2 — What you are authorizing, in full
Four things. This list is exhaustive. If an act is not on it, you have not authorized it.
1. Sending notices under the US copyright takedown law (17 U.S.C. § 512(c)) for works you identify.
We file per URL, under our name and our registered-agent address, after a logged fair-use screen. Yours goes inside the notice where the statute requires it. Ours is the name and address of record, so ours is the one that becomes public.
2. Submitting search-engine delisting requests.
Google and Bing, on both available tracks. Where the personal-explicit-imagery path is available, we prefer it, because it is not published to the Lumen Database the same way as the copyright path.
3. Submitting platform trust-and-safety, impersonation and abuse reports.
The reporting forms operated by the platforms themselves.
4. Acting as your authorized person for removal requests under the TAKE IT DOWN Act.
The statute contemplates a request signed by the depicted individual or by an authorized person acting on their behalf. This is the line that makes us that person.
§3 — What we need from you for each, and why
| What we ask for | Why we ask |
|---|---|
| Your legal name | A takedown notice carries a statement made under penalty of perjury. It has to carry a real name. It is encrypted, never displayed in any report, and never used outside a notice. |
| Proof you are the person depicted | It is the difference between a removal service and a censorship service. It is also the first line of our acceptable-use policy. |
| Proof you hold the rights | § 512(f) creates liability for a knowing material misrepresentation in a notice. That is the statute's own wording. What it would mean in any particular case is a lawyer's question. We file in our name, so it is our exposure too. |
| Chain-of-title answers | If a collaboration partner shot a set, or a management agreement assigns copyright, you may not hold the right you think you hold. |
A yes does not stop the rest of the work. It does stop us filing on those particular works until the ownership question is answered.
A notice you file under your own name becomes a public record. Google forwards copyright removal notices to the Lumen Database, which is public, searchable, and Harvard-hosted. The record reads, in substance, "[legal name] asked Google to remove these URLs", with the URLs attached. That is a directory of your leaks with your real name on it.
We file under our name, never yours. How we keep your name out of public records →
§4 — What this does not authorize
The letter contains this carve-out in its own text, in the same type size as everything else:
This authorization does not empower Leak Cleaner to respond to any counter-notification, to initiate or defend any legal proceeding, or to make any representation about your legal rights.
To put that in operational terms.
- We will never file a counter-notification for you. Not on any tier, not at any price, not if you ask us to in writing. A counter-notification puts your name, your physical address, your telephone number and your consent to federal jurisdiction into the hands of the party you are disputing. That decision belongs to you and an attorney, and it will never be made by a vendor.
- We cannot start, defend, settle or withdraw from any proceeding.
- We cannot sign anything on your behalf other than the four acts listed in §2.
- We cannot access, control, close, or transfer any of your accounts. This letter grants nothing over your OnlyFans account, your social accounts, your email, your banking, or your payouts.
- We cannot receive money on your behalf.
- We cannot say anything about what your rights are, because we are not qualified to.
§5 — Revoking it
The authorization is revocable at any time, for any reason, with no notice period and no conversation.
There is no portal on day one. Until it ships, revoking your authorization runs by email. One line to FOUNDER: revocation email, no call and no questions, and we start it the same working day. When the portal ships it becomes one button.
Revocation is effective on receipt. You get written confirmation within 1 business day.
Here is what revocation does and does not do, stated before you need it.
| What happens | Detail |
|---|---|
| New notices | Stop immediately. Nothing further is filed. |
| Notices already dispatched | Cannot be recalled. They were delivered to third parties and are already public record in some cases. |
| Pending delisting requests | We withdraw those that can be withdrawn and tell you which could not be. |
| Any counter-notification that arrives afterwards | Comes to us as the filing agent. We forward it to your last known contact for 12 months and take no other action on it. |
| Your evidence archive | Exported to you as a ZIP on request, at no charge, at any time. |
| The notice archive | Retained for 7 years. It is already public record in part, and it is our own defence file under § 512(f). This survives revocation and we would rather say so here than surprise you later. |
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§6 — The letter itself
DRAFT INSTRUMENT — ATTORNEY REVIEW REQUIRED
LETTER OF AUTHORIZATION
(Agency Appointment under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)(A)(vi))
Principal: CLIENT_LEGAL_NAME, of CLIENT_ADDRESS_ON_FILE
Agent: FOUNDER: entity legal name, doing business as Leak Cleaner, of FOUNDER: registered agent address
Date: SIGNATURE_DATE
1. Appointment. The Principal appoints the Agent as an authorized agent to act on the Principal's behalf solely for the purposes stated in section 2, in respect of the works identified in Schedule A.
2. Scope. The Agent is authorized to:
(a) prepare, sign and send notifications of claimed infringement under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) in respect of the identified works;
(b) submit removal and delisting requests to search engines in respect of the identified works and in respect of the Principal as a depicted individual;
(c) submit trust-and-safety, impersonation and abuse reports to online platforms in respect of the identified works and the Principal's likeness; and
(d) act as an authorized person acting on behalf of the Principal in submitting removal requests under the TAKE IT DOWN Act.
3. Limitations. This authorization does not empower Leak Cleaner to respond to any counter-notification, to initiate or defend any legal proceeding, or to make any representation about your legal rights.
The Agent is further not authorized to: access, operate or control any account of the Principal; receive funds on the Principal's behalf; enter into any agreement on the Principal's behalf; or execute any instrument other than those described in section 2.
4. Nature of this instrument. This is a limited agency appointment for the purposes stated. It is not a power of attorney, it creates no fiduciary appointment beyond the acts described, and it creates no attorney-client relationship. Leak Cleaner is not a law firm.
5. Representations by the Principal. The Principal represents that she is the owner of, or holds an exclusive right in, each work identified in Schedule A, that each depicted person was at least 18 years of age at the time of creation, and that she has disclosed any collaboration or management agreement that may affect ownership of any identified work.
6. Revocation. The Principal may revoke this authorization at any time, immediately, by written notice to FOUNDER: revocation email. Revocation is effective on receipt. It does not recall any notice already dispatched.
7. Term. This authorization continues until revoked, or until 30 days after termination of the service agreement, whichever is earlier.
8. Governing law. FOUNDER: state of incorporation, confirmed by counsel
Schedule A — Identified works: [ATTACHED / AS RECORDED IN THE CLIENT FILE]
Signed: ___________________ (Principal)
Countersigned: ___________________ (Agent)
§7 — If you would rather not sign this at all
You can file every one of these yourself. It is your right, the procedure is public, and we publish it in full and do not gate it.
The first site takes about twenty minutes to work out. Every one after that takes about five. Where that stops being worth your evenings is a judgment only you can make, and we would rather you make it with the procedure in front of you.
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