Filing identity
Verify Takedown Bureau
This page verifies our published filing identity. It does not verify, and cannot be used to assess, the merits of any individual request.
- Organization
- Takedown Bureau LLC
- Canonical domain
- takedownbureau.com
- Filing mailbox
- copyright@takedownbureau.com
- Current signatory
- Ralph S. Becnel — Director, Copyright Enforcement & Rights Operations
- Verification
- compliance@takedownbureau.com
- Location
- California, USA
Original filings
Takedown Bureau submits original copyright removal requests only from copyright@takedownbureau.com, on the domain takedownbureau.com, and sends any retraction of those requests through the same filing identity. We do not submit filings from consumer or free email providers, or from unrelated domains. Sender details can be forged, so a matching address is not proof on its own. If a message presented as a Takedown Bureau filing looks inconsistent, write to compliance@takedownbureau.com — typing the address published here rather than replying to the message — before acting on it.
Checking a filing against this record
- Confirm the message came from the canonical domain above — not a lookalike, and not a consumer mail provider.
- Confirm an original filing arrived from the filing mailbox above. Original filings come from that address and no other.
- Confirm the named signatory. For a current filing, it must match the signatory published above. For an earlier filing, check it against the identity record in force on the filing date — the revision log is on the platforms page — or ask the verification mailbox above.
- Confirm the request names a copyright owner, and identifies Takedown Bureau as an authorized representative rather than as the owner.
- Confirm the work is identified specifically, and that the reported location is the material itself in the format your platform uses for that content type.
- If anything is inconsistent, write to the verification mailbox above before acting on the message.
These steps check a communication against our published identity. They do not assess the merits of the request it carries — identity and merits are separate questions, and this page answers only the first.
What a match does not establish
A message that matches this record has passed an identity check, and nothing more. A match does not, by itself, establish:
- that the message was actually sent by us — sender details can be forged;
- who owns the copyright in a work;
- that any material infringes copyright;
- that we are authorized to act on a particular matter;
- that a request is legally valid;
- that YouTube or any other platform has accepted it, or will act on it.
If anything is inconsistent, write to compliance@takedownbureau.com — typing the address from this page rather than replying to the message.