DMCA / Copyright Notice

Last updated August 28, 2026

We respect copyright. This page explains how to send us a takedown notice under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”, 17 U.S.C. § 512), and how to send a counter-notification if your material was removed by mistake.

Please read this first

PREPNIGHTS+ does not host, upload, transmit, record, or store any video or audio broadcast. This website is a text-and-links guide to U.S. high school football games. The streams themselves are delivered by a separate third-party service that we do not own or operate, on their servers, under their control.

That means: if your complaint is about a broadcast, a recording, or a player page, the correct recipient is the service that transmits it, and you should send your notice to that service’s designated agent. Sending it to us will not get the stream taken down, because we have no technical ability to remove it.

If your complaint is about something we do control — text, an image, a logo, a preview clip, or a page on this website — send it to the agent below and we will act on it.

Designated agent for copyright notices

What a takedown notice must contain

To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), your written notice must include all six of the following. A notice that leaves one out may be invalid, and we may have to ask you to resend it.

1. Your signature. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, or of a person authorised to act on the owner’s behalf. Typing your full legal name at the end of the email counts as an electronic signature.
2. The work you own. Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed. If several works on this website are covered by one notice, a representative list of those works is enough.
3. The material to be removed. Identification of the material you claim is infringing, with enough information for us to find it — in practice, the exact full URL on this website, plus a description of the item on that page (for example, “the photograph at the top of the page”).
4. How we can reach you. Your contact details: full name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
5. A good-faith statement. A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. An accuracy statement under penalty of perjury. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and that, under penalty of perjury, you are the copyright owner or are authorised to act on behalf of the owner.

What we do when a valid notice arrives

• We acknowledge receipt, normally within 2 business days.
• We remove or disable access to the identified material expeditiously — in practice within 2 to 5 business days of confirming the notice is complete.
• Where the material was supplied by someone else, we forward the notice to them and tell them it has been removed, so that they can file a counter-notification if they wish.
• We keep a record of the notice.

Repeat infringers

We maintain a policy of terminating access, contributions, or listings for anyone who is the subject of repeated valid copyright notices.

Counter-notification

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you may send a counter-notification to the same agent above. Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3) it must contain:

1. your physical or electronic signature;
2. identification of the material that was removed, and the location where it appeared before it was removed;
3. 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;
4. your full name, mailing address and telephone number, 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, for any judicial district in which we may be found), and a statement that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice or their agent.

If we receive a valid counter-notification, we will forward it to the original complainant and may restore the material in 10 to 14 business days, unless we are told first that a court action has been filed to keep it down.

False claims carry a penalty

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), a person who knowingly and materially misrepresents that material is infringing — or that it was removed by mistake — can be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees. If you are not sure whether the use is infringing, or whether it is protected as fair use, please speak to a lawyer before sending a notice. We cannot give you legal advice.

Trademark and other complaints

School names, team names, and logos on this website are used only to identify the games being discussed, and we claim no ownership of them (see our Terms of Service). Trademark, publicity, or defamation complaints can be sent to the same email address; please set out clearly what the mark or claim is and which page it concerns.

This page describes a procedure. It is not legal advice and creates no obligation beyond what the DMCA already requires.