Copyright and DMCA

Designated agent

Send notices to our designated agent by email at dmca@watchgasp.com or by post:

The US Copyright Office registration number for this agent will be published here once the designation is filed.

Filing a takedown notice

A complete notice must include all of the following:

• A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, or of a person authorised to act for them.
• Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed.
• Identification of the material on Gasp you say is infringing, with enough detail for us to find it — the series URL, and the episode number and timestamp where relevant.
• Your name, postal address, telephone number, and email address.
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act on the owner's behalf.

Incomplete notices slow everything down. Knowingly misrepresenting that material is infringing can make you liable for damages under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f).

What we do with it

We aim to acknowledge a notice within two business days. If it is complete we suspend the episode or the series, notify the studio that published it and say why, and pass on your notice. Suspended episodes leave the library immediately and stop playing for viewers who had already unlocked them. A suspension can be lifted after a valid counter-notice, as described below, and the studio is told when it is.

Counter-notice

If your content was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, send a counter-notice to the same address with:

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

We may restore the material 10 to 14 business days after forwarding a valid counter-notice, unless the claimant tells us they have filed a court action.

Repeat infringers

Accounts that accumulate repeated valid notices have generation paused and are then suspended, in line with the Terms of Service and the Content Guidelines.

A note on generated and uploaded material

Episodes on Gasp are either generated by AI models from creator prompts or made elsewhere and uploaded by a studio. Creators are contractually forbidden from prompting for copyrighted characters, scripts, brands, or trade dress, and the prompts behind every image and video are screened before it is generated. A studio that uploads a video first confirms that it holds every right in it, and must show its releases and licences if we ask. Neither safeguard is perfect, which is why this process exists.