Everyone Paints
Copyright & Trademark Policy
Last updated 28 August 2026
Everyone Paints respects other people's intellectual property and expects the same of everyone using it. This page is how a rights holder tells us about something, how the person on the other end responds, and what happens to accounts that keep doing it.
If you are a rights holder and want the designated agent's details on their own, they are on the DMCA & Designated Agent page.
What is not allowed
- Posting text, images or other work you do not have the right to post.
- Using paint comments to reproduce a copyrighted work — a character, a photograph, a piece of art — or to recreate an existing work closely enough to substitute for it.
- Brand logos, trade dress and trademarks used in a way that suggests a connection with, or endorsement by, the brand.
- A celebrity's name or likeness used commercially, or to imply an endorsement they did not give. Commentary, criticism and satire are not this.
- Impersonating a person or a company in a username, display name or profile picture.
Designated agent
- Service provider: Beczak Digital LLC
- Also listed as: Everyone Paints
- Copyright Office registration number: DMCA-1078799
- Designated agent: Collin T Beczak
- Mailing address: Beczak Digital LLC
8101 College Blvd Ste 130 PMB 356494
Overland Park, KS 66210 - Telephone: 4697634197
- Email: support@everyonepaints.com
These details are the ones on file with the United States Copyright Office and can be verified at dmca.copyright.gov.
Reporting an infringement
Send a notice to support@everyonepaints.com with "DMCA" or "TRADEMARK" in the subject line. It has to contain all six of the following, or we may not be able to act on it:
- Your physical or electronic signature.
- Identification of the work you say has been infringed — or a representative list, if there are many.
- Identification of the material you say infringes it, described precisely enough for us to find it: the URL of the canvas, the version number, and the text of the comment where the material is a comment.
- How to reach you: address, telephone number and email.
- A statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the rights holder, its agent, or the law.
- A statement that the information in the notice is accurate and — under penalty of perjury — that you are the rights holder or authorised to act for them.
A trademark complaint needs the mark, the registration number and jurisdiction where it is registered, and an explanation of why the use is likely to confuse.
Deliberately misrepresenting that something infringes carries liability for damages under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f). Please be sure before you send it.
What we do about it
We aim to act on a complete notice within two business days. Material that infringes is removed or disabled, and the person who posted it is told what was removed and why, and given this page.
Because a picture here is generated from many people's comments rather than uploaded by one of them, removal is usually not one delete. It is up to three things, and the first is the one a notice is asking for:
- The picture comes down. The version you identified stops being served: its image no longer loads, at that address or any other. It keeps its number and its place in the canvas's history, marked as removed, and the canvas goes back to showing the last version before it.
- The comments that introduced it are removed, which is what stops them shaping any later version. Taking one picture down does not on its own stop the next round painting the same thing again.
- The canvas is repainted where the element would otherwise persist in the current picture.
Where the infringement runs through the whole history of a canvas, every version of it comes down. Nothing we remove is deleted: we keep what was taken down so that it can be put back if a counter-notice succeeds, and for no other purpose.
Counter-notice
If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, send a counter-notice to support@everyonepaints.com containing:
- Your physical or electronic signature.
- Identification of what was removed, and where it appeared before it was.
- A statement under penalty of perjury that you believe in good faith it was removed as a result of a mistake or a misidentification.
- Your name, address and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for the district where you live — or, if you are outside the United States, of any district in which we may be found — and that you will accept service from the person who sent the original notice.
We forward a valid counter-notice to the person who complained. If they do not tell us within 10 business days that they have gone to court, we may restore the material, ordinarily between 10 and 14 business days after we forward it.
Repeat infringers
Every upheld notice is recorded against the account behind the material. This is the whole point of keeping the record: a policy that forgets cannot recognise a pattern.
- First upheld notice: the material is removed and the account is warned, with a link to this page.
- Second: removal and suspension. The account cannot write until it acknowledges the policy.
- Third within twelve months: the account is terminated.
A strike withdrawn by the complainant, or reversed by a counter-notice, stops counting. Deliberate infringement at scale, commercial counterfeiting, or creating a new account to carry on after a termination, is terminated at the first instance rather than worked through the list. Terminated accounts are not permitted back.