Cinelang Copyright Policy

Effective date: October 19, 2026

If a clip in Cinelang uses your work without permission, send us a notice and we'll take the clip out of the app. Notices go to cinelangsupport@gmail.com.

How Cinelang uses clips

Every clip plays in YouTube's official embedded player from a video that is already on YouTube. Alongside it, Cinelang shows subtitles transcribed from the clip's dialogue, with its own translations and word explanations. People who use Cinelang can't upload anything.

That means there are two separate things you can have removed:

• The clip in Cinelang. We remove it, with its subtitles, translations, and other learning material made from it, when you send us a notice, as this page describes.
• The video on YouTube. Only YouTube can remove it. Use YouTube's copyright removal request. Once a video is gone from YouTube, it also stops playing in Cinelang.

How to send a notice

• In the app: tap the flag on the clip and choose "Copyright or removal request". It opens an email to us that already names the clip, its YouTube source, and its Cinelang ID. Add the rest of the details below.
• By email: write to cinelangsupport@gmail.com with "Copyright notice" in the subject.

What to include

1. Who you are. Your name and how to reach you: an email address, and a postal address or phone number.
2. The work you own. For example, the film, episode, or song, and its title.
3. The clip in Cinelang. Its title, or the YouTube link of the video it comes from. A screenshot helps.
4. Good faith. A statement that you believe in good faith that the copyright owner, its agent, or the law hasn't authorized this use.
5. Accuracy and authority. A statement that the information in your notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you own the copyright or are authorized to act for its owner.
6. Your signature. A physical or electronic signature, such as your typed full name.

What happens next

1. We reply to confirm we've received your notice.
2. We review every notice promptly. If a notice is missing something we need, we tell you what.
3. If the notice is valid, we remove the clip from Cinelang, with its subtitles and translations. Clips ship inside the app, so the removal reaches everyone with the next app update, and we tell you when that update is out.

What you send us is handled as the Privacy Policy describes under "Copyright complaints and legal requests".

Removing a clip from Cinelang doesn't remove the video from YouTube. For that, use YouTube's process above.

Notices made in bad faith

Under US law (17 U.S.C. § 512(f)), anyone who knowingly misrepresents that material infringes copyright can be liable for damages. Please consider whether the use might be fair use before you send a notice.

Other problems with a clip

For anything that isn't about copyright, such as a wrong translation or a clip that doesn't play, use the flag's other options or email us.

Contact

Aram Abramian
cinelangsupport@gmail.com