Copyright and DMCA

Listings on our rental map and in the chat assistant come from other listing sites, and their photos are displayed from those sites. To have one removed from Easy Rental, see removing a listing from the map; the notice below applies too if you are claiming copyright.

Send a notice to leasing@easyrental.ai with the subject line “DMCA”. To act on it we need:

• Identification of the work you say has been infringed.
• The link to the listing on Easy Rental where it appears, specific enough for us to find it.
• Your name, address, telephone number and email address.
• A statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act on their behalf.
• Your physical or electronic signature.

We remove or disable access to the material, and tell the landlord who uploaded it what was removed and why. Accounts that infringe repeatedly are removed from the site entirely.

Because unauthorised photographs are also the raw material of most rental scams, a notice like this usually tells us something about the listing beyond the copyright question, and we look at the whole listing again.

Send a counter-notice to the same address with the material identified, your contact details, a statement under penalty of perjury that it was removed by mistake or misidentification, and your consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for the district where you live. We will pass it to the complainant, and unless they file a court action we may restore the material.

When you list a property you confirm you own the photographs or have permission to use them. Photographs taken by a previous agent or a previous listing are usually owned by the photographer, not by the landlord — reusing them is the most common way this goes wrong, and it is not a technicality.