For performers, creators and small studios whose clips are re-uploaded by someone reachable in the US

A federal suit costs more than the clips earn. The Board does not.

Riposte builds a claim for the Copyright Claims Board, the federal small-claims alternative: each work with its registration or application and whether it was timely, the copying with every capture fingerprinted and every takedown sent, a service address, and the damages asked against what the Board can actually award.

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Opens in this browser with an invented performer already in it. No account, no email address, nothing installed.

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The problem

A claim the Board cannot award is wasted.

The Copyright Claims Board hears disputes up to $30,000 in total, with statutory damages up to $15,000 per work — half that for works not timely registered — and no lawyer needed. A claim needs a registration or a pending application, must be within three years of the copying, and must be servable. Built wrong, it is dismissed.

$30,000

the most the Board can award in total in one proceeding.

$15,000

statutory damages per work — $7,500 for works not timely registered.

Registration

or a pending application is needed before or with the claim.

Will not let a claim be filed that the Board will throw out.

Not a reminder. I filed it refuses, with the reason named, while a work has neither a registration nor an application, the copying is outside three years, the respondent or a service address is missing, there is no fingerprinted evidence, or the amount asked is over the caps. There is no override.

How it works

Works, copying, the claim

List the works

First published, registration or application number and date, and the damages asked. Each is marked timely or not.

Record the copying

The respondent, a service address, when it began and was last seen, every capture fingerprinted and every takedown sent.

Build the claim

Statutory or actual damages, each work’s ceiling, the most the Board can award, and the track. File on eCCB.

What it will never do

It builds the claim. The Board’s eCCB files it.

Riposte prepares everything the claim needs. You file it on the Board’s own system.

No captures kept.Each file stays on your disk; Riposte keeps its fingerprint.

No filing.You file on eCCB.

It is not a lawyer.Not legal advice. The respondent may opt out, and then federal court is the road.

It never touches a payment.The packet is for software.

Pricing

Priced per claim

The Board’s fees are modest. The risk is a claim built wrong.

Most performers

One claim

$59 per claim

One respondent, the works they copied.

Each work’s ceiling worked out
Captures fingerprinted
Filing gate, no override

Three claims

$129 for three

Three sites copying your work.

Everything in One claim
A packet per respondent
Export for your lawyer

One-time payment. Your bank statement says Riposte Software. Refunded in full on request within 30 days if the claim has not been marked filed. Your licence key is emailed to you within two working days of payment.

Checkout is our own bitcoin server, not a card processor — nobody we had to apply to and nobody who can close the account. The button takes you straight to it. Give your email address there — that is where your key is sent.

Questions

The ones we actually get asked

What does “timely registered” mean?

Registered before the copying began, or within three months of publication. A late registration halves the statutory ceiling.

What if I only applied?

A pending application is enough to bring the claim. A refused one dismisses it without prejudice.

Can the respondent refuse?

Yes. The Board is voluntary; a respondent may opt out, and the claim can go to federal court instead.

Is this legal advice?

No. It is the packet the Board needs.

What do I actually get when I pay?

The demo on this page is the whole program, running on invented records. Paying gets you a licence key — one line of text, emailed to the address you give at checkout within two working days. Paste it into the program and from then on it keeps your own records. Until then, nothing you type into it is kept.

The key is checked inside the page, on your own machine. It never calls us, so there is still no account and nothing about your business goes anywhere. If you ever stop paying, your records stay exactly where they are, read-only, and Export still hands you every one of them.

Open the demo before the next takedown

The invented performer’s three clips were re-uploaded: one timely registered, one registered too late, one only applied for. She asked $45,000 against a ceiling of $30,000, and there is no service address. Riposte will not file until each is fixed.

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