DMCA

Last updated: November 14, 2026

Pickl Ink makes club apparel and courtside gifts for pickleball groups. We draw our own designs, and we expect the people who buy from us to respect other people’s work just as we do. This page explains how a copyright owner can tell us that material on picklink.shop infringes their copyright, what we do with that notice, and how someone whose material was removed can respond. It follows the notice-and-takedown process of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. section 512, and is written in plain language so that a club secretary, an illustrator or a photographer can use it without a lawyer.

1. What this page covers

This page covers copyright, which protects original creative work: artwork, illustrations, lettering layouts, photographs, written text and similar material. It applies to everything published on picklink.shop, including:

• The designs on our tees, long sleeve tee, tank, crewnecks, hoodie, quarter-zip, hats, beanie, towel, tumbler, mug and tote.
• Product photographs, mockups and illustrations, including the drawn sign-up sheet, the court map and the paddle rack on the homepage.
• Product descriptions, page text and any articles we publish.
• Text a buyer types into a personalisation field, once it is printed on an item or shown on the site.

Copyright does not usually cover a short name or a single word. If your concern is that someone has used your club name, league name, brand or logo, that is normally a trademark question and belongs on the Intellectual Property Policy page instead. If you are not sure which applies, send your concern to the same address and say so. We will read it either way.

2. Our designs and what buyers can add

The artwork on every item is drawn for Pickl Ink. We do not resell designs from marketplaces, we do not trace other shops’ artwork, and we do not use the names or logos of any league, association, tournament, rating system, brand or venue. A paddle that appears in one of our photographs is a plain, unbranded prop.

Five items take customer text: the Club Crest Tee, the Varsity Club Crewneck, the Team Tee with Back Name and Number, the Courtside Towel with Name and the Bench Tumbler with Name. The fields accept short text only: a club or team name up to 18 characters, a back name up to 12, a home court line up to 22, a towel or tumbler name up to 14, an est. year and a number from 0 to 99. There is no upload button. A buyer cannot add an image, a logo or someone else’s artwork to any item.

Buyers agree to type only their own club or group name. Lines of song lyrics, quotations from books, catchphrases from shows or a copied slogan are not club names, and they should not be typed. If we learn that a personalised order contains someone else’s protected text, we treat it as described in section 5.

3. How to send a copyright notice

Email your notice to support@picklink.shop with the subject line “Copyright notice”. You may also send it by post to Pickl Ink, 3042 Lake Barkley Rd, Henderson, NV 89052, US, but email reaches us faster. Your notice should contain all six of the following:

1. Signature. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or of a person authorised to act for them. A typed full name at the end of an email counts as an electronic signature.
2. The original work. Identify the copyrighted work you say has been infringed. A link to where you published it, a registration number if you have one, or an attached image of the original all help.
3. The material on our site. Identify the material you say is infringing, with the exact URL of each product or page. “Your crewneck” is hard to act on. A link such as /products/open-play-varsity-crewneck/ and a note saying which part of the design is the problem is easy to act on.
4. Your contact details. Your name, postal address, telephone number and email address.
5. Good-faith statement. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent or the law.
6. Accuracy statement. A statement that the information in your notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or are authorised to act for the owner.

A notice that is missing one of these elements may still be read, but we may have to write back and ask for the missing part before we can act on it. That costs you time, so it is worth checking the list before you send.

A short example

“I am the illustrator of the attached drawing, first published on my portfolio at the address linked below in 2024. The design on your product at /products/paddles-up-tee/ uses the same layout and figure. I have a good-faith belief that this use is not authorised by me, my agent or the law. The information in this notice is accurate, and under penalty of perjury I am the copyright owner. Name, postal address, phone, email. Signed, full name.” That notice has everything needed.

Who receives the notice

Copyright notices for picklink.shop are received by Pickl Ink itself, at the email and postal address above. We are a single shop selling our own designs. There are no third-party sellers on the site, so every notice about every listing reaches the shop that published that listing. Please address your notice to Pickl Ink rather than to a named individual; that keeps it from sitting in the wrong place.

If you write on behalf of someone else

Agents, publishers and legal representatives are welcome to send notices for a rights owner. Say who you act for, and include the owner’s name as well as your own contact details. The signature and the accuracy statement in elements 1 and 6 must come from a person who really has that authority.

4. What we do when a notice arrives

1. We confirm we have it. Like every email to our support address, a notice gets a reply within 24 hours on business days. That first reply confirms receipt and tells you if anything is missing.
2. We review the material. We compare the original work with the material at the URLs you listed. We may ask a follow-up question if the overlap is unclear.
3. We act on a valid notice. If the notice is complete and the material appears to infringe, we remove the material or disable access to it. For a product design, that means taking the listing down or withdrawing the design.
4. We tell you the outcome. We write to you by email to say what was done. If we decide not to remove the material, we explain why, so you can send more information if you have it.

How long a review takes depends on how clear the notice is and how much material it covers. A complete notice with exact URLs and a copy of the original is the fastest to review.

When the material is customer text

If the material was typed by a buyer into a personalisation field, we remove it from anywhere it is shown on the site and do not print it again. Where the law allows, we let the buyer know that the text was removed because of a notice, and we may share a copy of the notice with your personal contact details withheld.

5. Counter-notification

If material you provided was removed because of a notice and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you can send a counter-notification to support@picklink.shop with the subject “Copyright counter-notice”. It should include:

• Your physical or electronic signature.
• Identification of the material that was removed and where it appeared before removal.
• A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of a mistake or misidentification.
• Your name, postal address and telephone number.
• A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for your address, or, if you are outside the United States, any judicial district in which Pickl Ink may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice.

We forward a complete counter-notification to the person who sent the original notice. Under section 512(g) of the DMCA, the material may be restored 10 to 14 business days after that, unless the person who sent the notice tells us they have filed a court action to stop the infringement.

6. False or misleading notices

Under 17 U.S.C. section 512(f), anyone who knowingly makes a material misrepresentation in a notice or a counter-notification can be liable for damages, including costs and legal fees. Please send a notice only for work you own or are authorised to protect, and only for material you have actually looked at. If you are not sure whether a use is infringing, for example whether a shared common phrase can be owned at all, consider getting legal advice before you write to us.

The same care applies in the other direction. A counter-notice should only be sent by someone who honestly believes the material was removed by mistake, for example because the notice pointed at the wrong product, or because the text in question is the buyer’s own club name and not a copy of anyone’s work. A counter-notice sent simply to get a listing back up, without that belief, carries the same risk of liability.

7. Repeat problems

If the same buyer repeatedly types other people’s protected text into personalisation fields after we have asked them not to, we may decline their future personalised orders. If a design of ours is the subject of a valid notice, we withdraw it and do not reuse it in another product.

8. Things this page does not cover

• Order problems. A wrong spelling, a size swap or a damaged item is handled by our support pages, not by a copyright notice. Start at the Help Center or Submit a Ticket.
• Trademarks and names. See the Intellectual Property Policy.
• Personal data. Questions about what we store about you are answered in the Privacy Policy.
• General terms. The Terms of Service apply to every order and are governed by the law of Nevada.

9. Contact

Copyright notices and counter-notices: support@picklink.shop, subject “Copyright notice” or “Copyright counter-notice”. Post: Pickl Ink, 3042 Lake Barkley Rd, Henderson, NV 89052, US. We do not take notices by phone or social media. For anything else, see Contact Us.