This policy explains how copyright applies to content on UnboundedFigures, with particular attention to the nature of mathematical expression and the role of AI-generated content.
Your Content, Your Copyright
You retain full copyright ownership of the original expression in any content you submit to the Platform. Posting to UnboundedFigures does not transfer your intellectual property rights to us.
You grant UnboundedFigures the limited license described in Section 2 to operate the Platform. Beyond that license, we make no claim on your work.
License to UnboundedFigures
By posting content to the Platform, you grant UnboundedFigures a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to store, reproduce, and display your content to operate the Platform, subject to the visibility you choose. We may use service providers for those purposes.
This license is necessary for the Platform to work. For example, it lets us display your sketch to other users, to send email notifications containing excerpts, or to surface your work in search results.
This license ends when you delete your content or close your account, except for contributions our deletion process keeps (shared project work and requests other people took part in), copies kept as evidence for a safety report, and records we must keep by law.
Mathematical Ideas vs. Expression
Copyright law does not protect mathematical ideas, theorems, methods, or proofs as abstract concepts. Only the specific written expression of those ideas is protected.
This has important implications for how the platform works:
Network responses and formal versions
When someone writes a formal proof or counterexample in response to your sketch, they are engaging with your mathematical idea. Responding to an idea does not by itself give permission to copy its written expression. Each author holds the rights in what they wrote, and both contributions are recorded and credited.
Collaborative projects
In a Project Lab document, each contributor keeps the rights in what they wrote. Project history records who saved each version. It does not identify who wrote every part of a shared document. Working in a shared project does not by itself settle ownership or publication rights for the work as a whole, so collaborators should agree on credit and publication before releasing shared work elsewhere.
Prior art and known results
If a Network response points to existing literature where the same result is known, its author should cite the original source. Citing a source does not by itself give permission to reproduce it: quote briefly, and only post material you have permission to share or that the law otherwise allows.
AI-Generated Content
Under current United States copyright law, content generated purely by AI without sufficient human creative authorship may not be eligible for copyright protection. If you substantially relied on AI to generate mathematical content you have posted, be aware of this limitation.
You remain responsible for ensuring that any AI-generated content you post does not reproduce copyrighted material from the AI’s training data. You must also comply with our disclosure requirements for AI-assisted mathematical content as described in our Community Guidelines.
Do not knowingly make false copyright claims, including in AI-generated content you did not creatively author. Misrepresentations in DMCA notices or counter-notices can have legal consequences.
DMCA Takedown Process
UnboundedFigures respects intellectual property rights and will respond to valid takedown notices submitted under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512).
Designated agent
Tyler Samuels42 Broadway Suite 1227-642, New York, NY 10004
(516) 643-2333
contact@unboundedfigures.com
Notices may also be sent by post to this address.
To submit a DMCA takedown notice, send a written notice to contact@unboundedfigures.com with the subject line “DMCA Notice” including all of the following:
- Your full legal name and contact information (email, address, phone number)
- A description of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed
- The specific URL(s) on UnboundedFigures where the infringing content appears
- A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law
- A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on their behalf
- Your electronic or physical signature
Incomplete notices may not be acted upon. We will review valid notices promptly and take appropriate action, which may include removing the content and notifying the user who posted it.
Counter-Notices
If your content was removed in response to a DMCA notice and you believe the removal was a mistake or misidentification, you may submit a counter-notice to contact@unboundedfigures.com with the subject line “DMCA Counter-Notice” including:
- Your full legal name and contact information
- Identification of the content that was removed and its location before removal
- A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief the content was removed by mistake or misidentification
- Your consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the district where you live or, if you live outside the United States, any judicial district in which UnboundedFigures may be found, and your agreement to accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice
- Your electronic or physical signature
If we receive a valid counter-notice, we send a copy of it, including your contact information, to the person who sent the original notice. We may restore the removed content after 10–14 business days unless they tell us they have filed a court action.
Repeat Infringers
UnboundedFigures will terminate the accounts of users who are found to be repeat copyright infringers in appropriate circumstances. We take repeat infringement seriously and reserve the right to act on patterns of infringing behavior even outside of formal DMCA processes.