Copyright and DMCA Notices for Shortbread

Effective date: September 11, 2026

Shortbread fetches recipe pages at the direction of the person who saved them and keeps a copy of the structured recipe data those pages publish. If you own material reached that way and want it removed, this page is how. Requests are acted on — removal is a supported operation in the software, not an escalation.

Designated Agent

Registered with the U.S. Copyright Office, registration DMCA-1080304, and listed in the Office's public DMCA Designated Agent Directory.

Service provider: Lee Richardson, an individual, also known as Shortbread.
Designated agent: Lee Richardson
Email: lee@leerichardson.net
Post: 2635 Grand Summit Rd., Torrance, CA 90505
Telephone: (808) 221-9677

Sending a Notice

Email the agent above. To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), a notice must include:

  1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or someone authorised to act for them.
  2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed.
  3. Identification of the material to be removed, and the URL of the recipe page — that is what Shortbread stores content against, and the fastest way to have it found and removed.
  4. Your contact details: address, telephone, email.
  5. A statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
  6. A statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and — under penalty of perjury — that you are authorised to act for the owner.

A URL alone, without the rest, will still be looked at. The list above is what makes a notice legally effective.

What Happens Next

On a valid notice:

  • The recipe content is deleted, including the original structured data captured from the page — not just the visible fields.
  • The URL is tombstoned, so it cannot be imported again by anyone. Removal is not something you should have to ask for twice.
  • Anyone who had saved it keeps a placeholder in their library explaining that it was withdrawn at the publisher's request. Nothing vanishes silently from someone's account, but no content remains.

Counter-Notices

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or misidentification, send a counter-notice to the agent above containing your signature, identification of the removed material and where it appeared, a statement under penalty of perjury that you believe it was removed by mistake, your contact details, and consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for your district.

Repeat Infringement

Accounts that repeatedly infringe are terminated. This policy is applied, not merely published.

Preventing Imports in the First Place

Shortbread checks robots.txt before fetching, on every redirect hop, and will not read a page you have disallowed for its user agent, shortbread-recipe-import. Disallowing it stops future imports without anyone needing to send anything.

A notice is still the way to remove what has already been saved. See also the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.