DMCA Policy
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Camp Ink draws its own designs: the back-in hand signals, the level bubble, the hookup pedestal, the striped awning, the loop map and the rest of the campsite you see across this shop. We expect other people’s work to be treated the same way we want ours treated. This page explains how to tell us if you believe something on campink.shop copies a work you own, what we do with that notice, and how the person who supplied the material can answer it. Trademark questions, and the names and marks we refuse to print in personalisation fields, are covered on our Intellectual Property Policy.
Copyright notices, at a glance
- Where to send it: support@campink.shop, subject line “Copyright notice”. Email is our only channel.
- What to include: the six items listed in the section on writing a notice. A complete notice is the fastest notice.
- First reply: within 24 hours on business days, confirming we have it or asking for a missing item.
- What happens next: we review it and, where it is valid, remove or disable the material and tell you by email.
- Counter-notice: the person whose material was removed can answer it, as described below.
- Postal address for legal mail: Camp Ink, 219 Baer Creek Dr, Kaysville, UT 84037, US.
What this page covers on campink.shop
Camp Ink is a single store. There are no outside sellers listing their own products here, so a copyright question almost always falls into one of four groups. The table shows them, with a plain example of each, so you can tell us quickly which one you mean.
| Material | Where it appears | Example of a concern |
|---|---|---|
| Product designs | Tees, hoodies, mugs, blankets, garden flags and metal signs, and their product pictures | “The loop-map drawing on your fleece blanket looks like the map I drew for my own shop.” |
| Site drawings and layout art | The homepage campsite, category headers, icons and page artwork | “Your campsite illustration copies a print I sell.” |
| Written text | Product descriptions, help pages, policies and guides | “A paragraph on your size guide is copied word for word from my article.” |
| Text typed by customers | Personalisation lines on Name Your Site products, printed exactly as typed | “Someone ordered a sign carrying a poem I wrote and published.” |
The process on this page follows the notice-and-counter-notice approach of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. section 512). We apply the same steps to notices sent from Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the other countries we ship to. Nothing on this page is legal advice; if you are unsure whether something infringes your rights, a lawyer in your own country is the right person to ask before you write to us.
How to write a notice we can act on
A notice does not need legal wording. It needs to let us find the material and know who is asking. Please put these six things in one email:
- Your signature. A typed full name at the end of the email counts as an electronic signature. If you act for the owner, say so and name the owner.
- The work you own. Describe it and, if it is online, give a link. For a drawing, a picture of the original helps more than any description.
- The material on our site. The exact address of each page, for example the product page of the blanket or flag, and which part of the page you mean: the main picture, a gallery picture, the design itself or a paragraph of text.
- How to reach you. Your name, postal address and email address. A phone number is helpful for the record but we answer by email.
- A good-faith statement. A sentence saying you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent or the law.
- An accuracy statement. A sentence saying the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner or are authorised to act for the owner.
Send it to support@campink.shop with the subject “Copyright notice”, so it does not sit in the queue behind questions about sizes and delivery dates. Attach pictures as files rather than links to private albums we cannot open. If you prefer paper, post the same six items to Camp Ink, 219 Baer Creek Dr, Kaysville, UT 84037, US, but email is far quicker for both of us.
A short example
Say you are an illustrator who sells a drawing of a striped awning with a string of lights, and you think our Awning Stripe Fleece Camp Blanket copies it. A useful notice reads something like this: you name yourself and your drawing, attach your original file and the date you first published it, paste the address of our blanket page, say it is the blanket design you mean, give your postal address, and add the two statements from the list above with your typed name. That is all we need to start.
What we do after your notice arrives
Every notice is read by a person, not filtered by software. Here is the order of things.
| Step | What happens | What you hear from us |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Received | We log the notice and check that the six items are there. | A reply within 24 hours on business days, either confirming it is complete or asking for what is missing. |
| 2. Review | We compare your work with the material on our page and look at where our design came from. | If we need more detail, we ask for it before deciding. |
| 3. Action | For a valid notice, we remove or disable the design, picture or text and stop offering that product or that version of it. | An email saying what was removed and where. |
| 4. Close | We keep a record of the notice and our reply. | A final email if anything else changes, for example after a counter-notice. |
We cannot give you a fixed number of days for the review, because a simple copied paragraph and a disputed drawing take very different amounts of time. What we can promise is that you will hear from us within 24 hours on business days at every step where we are waiting on ourselves, not on you.
When the material came from a customer
The Name Your Site products, such as the Family Campsite Metal Sign and the Family Site Name Garden Flag, print the lines a customer types: usually a family name, a site number and an Est. year. Most of that is short and personal, and nobody owns “The Hollis Crew / Site 14 / Est. 2019”. Occasionally someone types a line of a poem, a song or another person’s slogan. If your notice is about such an order, we cannot unprint an item already delivered, but we will not print that text again, we will decline the same text in new orders and we will tell the customer that it was removed after a copyright notice. Where the law allows, we hold back your contact details when we pass the notice on.
Answering a notice: the counter-notice
If material you supplied was removed and you believe that was a mistake, or that the material was identified wrongly, you can send a counter-notice to support@campink.shop with the subject “Copyright counter-notice”. It needs:
- your physical or electronic signature;
- a description of the material that was removed and where it appeared before it was removed;
- a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you believe in good faith the material was removed by mistake or misidentification;
- your name, postal address and email address;
- a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for your address (or, outside the United States, any judicial district in which Camp 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-notice to the person who sent the original notice. Under the U.S. process, the material may be restored if that person does not tell us, within the period the law sets, that they have gone to court about it. We tell both sides by email what we have done.
Notices that are false or careless
Under 17 U.S.C. section 512(f), anyone who knowingly and materially misrepresents that material infringes, or that it was removed by mistake, can be liable for damages. Please check before you write. A few common mix-ups we would rather help you with as an ordinary question:
- Common camping objects. Nobody owns the idea of a fire ring, a folding chair, a site post or a striped awning. A notice needs to point at a specific drawing or text that was copied, not at the subject.
- Common phrases. Short everyday phrases are rarely protected by copyright. If your concern is a slogan you use as a brand name, that is a trademark matter: see the Intellectual Property Policy.
- Your own order. If you are a customer and want a typed line changed on your own order, that is not a copyright notice. You can change typed text within 24 hours of ordering, as explained on Cancel or Change an Order.
Repeat problems
If the same customer account keeps sending text that draws valid copyright notices, we stop accepting personalisation orders from that account and may close it. We also review our own design work after any valid notice, so the same problem does not appear on another product in the shop.
How our own designs are made
Every design on campink.shop is drawn for Camp Ink from scratch around the campsite itself: the back-in, the level, the hookup, the awning, the chairs round the ring and the family sign at the road. We do not use real campground, park, club, RV maker, team, character or brand names or logos, and we do not trace other people’s artwork. Product pictures are made for this store. If you spot something that seems to break those rules, we want to know, even if you do not own the work involved: send a short note to support@campink.shop and we will look into it.
If you would like to use one of our drawings yourself, for example on a campground newsletter, ask first by email. We reply within 24 hours on business days and will tell you plainly whether we can say yes.
Contact for copyright matters
Copyright notices and counter-notices: support@campink.shop. Postal address: Camp Ink, 219 Baer Creek Dr, Kaysville, UT 84037, US. There is no phone line or chat. For anything else about an order, the Help Center and the Contact Us page are the quickest way to the right answer, and the Terms of Service explain the rules for personalised text.