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WhatsApp is committed to helping people and organizations protect their intellectual property rights, including copyright and trademark. This form is to be used only for reporting alleged infringements of your intellectual property rights. Please note that any other types of claims will not be addressed through this form. If you do not wish to submit an intellectual infringement report, but you still want to report content on WhatsApp, you can do so directly from the app. Learn what happens when you use our block and report features, and how to do this, in this article.

What right is being violated or infringed?

Copyright

Trademark

Counterfeit

Copyright is a legal right that protects original works of authorship, such as film, music, books and art.

A trademark is a word, slogan, symbol or design (for example: a brand name or logo) that a person or company uses to distinguish their products or services from those offered by others.

A counterfeit product is an unauthorized imitation or reproduction of a product bearing the trademark of the original rights owner.

Describe your relationship to the rights owner

I am the rights owner.

I am reporting on behalf of my organization or client.

I am reporting on behalf of someone else.

Describe your relationship to the rights owner

I am the rights owner.

I am reporting on behalf of my organization or client.

I am reporting on behalf of someone else.

If you believe others' rights may be infringed, you may wish to ask them to review the intellectual property section of the Help Center.

Your Contact Information

Note that we regularly provide the rights owner's name, your email address and the nature of your report to the person who posted the content you are reporting. This person may use the information you provide to contact you. For this reason, you may wish to provide a valid generic business or professional email address.

Your full name

Mailing address

Email address

Provide a valid email address that can be used to contact you. This may be a professional or business email address. Keep in mind the reported party may use this email to contact you.

Confirm your email address

Rights Owner Information

What is the name of the rights owner?

This may be your full name or the name of the organization for whom you are the authorized representative.

What is your relationship to the rights owner?

Where is the rights owner asserting rights?

Which of these best describes the copyrighted work?

Provide a link to the rights owner's official online presence

(Ex: website, etc.)

Provide links (URLs) to the copyrighted work or describe it in the box below

You can provide links (URLs) to examples on your website or anywhere else on the web. Please note that we are unable to review materials hosted on a third-party application.

What is the trademark?

Provide information for one trademark at a time. You will have an opportunity to list additional trademarks at the end of this section.

Where is the trademark registered (if applicable)?

What is the trademark registration number (if applicable)?

If possible, also provide a link (URL) leading directly to the trademark registration.

Attachment

If possible, provide a scanned copy of your trademark registration certificate(s) or screenshot of your registration on the website or database of the applicable national or community intellectual property office(s). Please note that we only support the following file formats: JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF and PDF.

I have additional trademarks.

Trademark

Registration no.

Jurisdiction

Link to registration

Content You Want to Report

End-to-end encryption ensures only you and the person you're communicating with can read or listen to what is sent, and nobody in between, not even WhatsApp. WhatsApp has no ability to see the content of messages that are end-to-end encrypted. Learn more about end-to-end encryption in this Help Center article.

What type of content are you reporting?

WhatsApp Private Message Chat

WhatsApp Group Message Chat

WhatsApp Community

WhatsApp Channel

Specify

Photo, video, or post

Entire Channel

Required: Provide the phone number associated with the WhatsApp account you want to report

Please note that without this information, we will not be able to process your report.

Required: Provide the community invite link.

You can learn about communities in this help center article https://faq.whatsapp.com/495856382464992/.

Required: To help us identify the group, provide the group name.

Required: To help us identify the group, provide the phone number associated with the WhatsApp account of a group admin.

Required: Provide the channel invite link

You can learn how to find a channel link here: https://faq.whatsapp.com/794229125227200.

Required: Provide the channel post link

Describe how you believe this content infringes your intellectual property rights, and provide any additional information that can help us understand your report.

Attachment

Attach screenshots of the messages of the chats you're reporting. Please ensure that the screenshots include the WhatsApp account phone number, date, and time and, if applicable, the name of the chat where the messages were shared. Please note that we only support the following file formats: JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF and PDF.

Declaration Statement

By submitting this notice, you state that you have a good faith belief that the reported use described above, in the manner you have complained of, is not authorized by the intellectual property rights owner, its agent, or the law; that the information contained in this notice is accurate; and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the intellectual property rights at issue.

Electronic signature

Your electronic signature should match your full name.

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