Copyright Notice

© 2025–2026 Temple Seven Press, Inc. All rights reserved, except as expressly stated below. This Copyright Notice explains what is, and is not, protected by copyright on www.templeseven.com (the "Services") — including our Editions, the historical newspapers, maps, and pictures in our archive, Art Prints, works published by independent authors through our author program, and content posted by users — and sets out our procedure for reporting claims of copyright infringement. This Notice is an interim revision dated October 4, 2026 and remains subject to review by counsel.

1. Public Domain Source Works

Temple Seven publishes Editions of books whose underlying Source Works are, to the best of our knowledge and belief, in the public domain in the United States and in the other jurisdictions where we make them available. Source Works are drawn from established public-domain repositories, including the Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg, and the Library of Congress. Before publication, each title's public-domain status is checked using an AI-assisted verification process together with human editorial review, and we retain verification records for each title. We are aware that public-domain determinations can be more difficult for certain categories of works — including mid-twentieth-century titles subject to renewal formalities, foreign-sourced works subject to URAA restoration, and later editions that add separately copyrighted illustrations, forewords, or introductions to an otherwise public-domain text — and we apply extra diligence to those categories. We make no claim of copyright ownership in a Source Work itself, and nothing in this Notice restricts your use of a genuinely public-domain Source Work independent of our Edition. Public domain status can vary by country; if you plan to reuse a Source Work outside the United States, you are responsible for confirming its status under the law of your jurisdiction.

Newspapers and maps. The historical newspapers and maps in our archive are imported from public repositories — currently the Library of Congress — that make them available as public-domain material. We make no claim of copyright in those scans. Because a repository's rights statement can be incomplete, and because some later newspaper issues or maps may contain material that is still protected in some countries, we apply the same complaint procedure described in Section 3 to archive items and will remove an item promptly on a credible complaint.

Pictures and Art Prints. The pictures in our archive — photographs, prints, drawings, paintings, and plates — come from public repositories, from the open-access programs of museums and libraries, from other collections and sellers of historical material, and, in some cases, from the Editions in our catalog. A picture is published only where it is, to the best of our knowledge, in the public domain in the United States (including a faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, as described in Section 1.1), or where its source has released it under a public-domain dedication such as CC0. Its page credits its source or the holder of the original work. We make no claim of copyright in those pictures, and an Art Print is a reproduction of a public-domain picture, not a new work. A credible complaint about a picture removes it from display and from sale as an Art Print while we review it, under Section 3.4.

1.1 Reproductions of Public-Domain Works of Visual Art

A faithful photograph or scan of a two-dimensional work that is in the public domain is not a new work of authorship and carries no copyright of its own. This covers a painting, print, drawing, map, poster, label, or photographic print, recorded flat and straight-on so that it shows the work and adds nothing of its own. In the United States, the rule was set out in The Bridgeman Art Library, Ltd. v. Corel Corp., 25 F. Supp. 2d 421 (S.D.N.Y. 1998), on reconsideration, 36 F. Supp. 2d 191 (S.D.N.Y. 1999). There the court held that exact photographic reproductions of public-domain works of art are not copyrightable, because they involve no originality. As a federal district court decision it is not binding precedent elsewhere, but other courts have widely followed it. In the European Union, Article 14 of Directive (EU) 2019/790 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market provides that "[w]hen the term of protection of a work of visual art has expired, any material resulting from an act of reproduction of that work is not subject to copyright or related rights, unless the material resulting from that act of reproduction is original in the sense that it is the author's own intellectual creation."

Temple Seven relies on this rule. Where a picture in our archive is a faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, we treat the reproduction as carrying no copyright of its own. That holds even where the institution, collection, or seller that supplied the file attaches a license, a non-commercial condition, or a request for permission or credit to its copy. Such a picture's page says that it is a faithful reproduction, cites this Section, and credits the institution, collection, or place that holds the original work.

The rule does not reach photographs of three-dimensional objects (such as sculpture, architecture, or furnishings), photographs taken at an angle or showing a work in its setting, or a modern coloring or other creative change made to an older work. Any of these may carry its photographer's or artist's own copyright, and we do not publish them on this basis. We apply the same rule to ourselves: Temple Seven makes no claim of copyright in its own faithful reproductions of public-domain works. If you believe a particular reproduction is original enough to carry its own copyright, please use the procedure in Section 3.

2. Our Copyright in Temple Seven Editions

While the Source Work itself is not protected, Temple Seven Press, Inc. and its licensors hold copyright in the original, independently copyrightable contributions we add when preparing an Edition, including: our cleaned and corrected transcription of the text; interior typesetting, layout, and formatting; original cover art and design; introductions, footnotes, annotations, glossaries, and other editorial or scholarly additions; illustrations we add; and the curation and compilation of the Edition as a whole. These contributions, together with the Temple Seven name, logo, "Antiquarian Reprint Collection" imprint line, and related branding, are protected under United States and international copyright and trademark law and may not be reproduced, redistributed, or used to train machine-learning models without our prior written consent, except to the limited extent expressly licensed to purchasers under our Terms and Conditions. Downloaded Digital Product files may include a traceable identifier tied to the purchasing Account to help us detect unauthorized redistribution. For newspapers, maps, and pictures, our copyright claim is limited to the OCR text layers, descriptions, metadata, and search index we create; the scans and pictures themselves remain in the public domain as described in Section 1.

2.1 Works Published by Independent Authors

Books published through our author self-publishing program ("Author Works") are the copyright of their authors, not of Temple Seven. Each author signs an agreement and a sworn affidavit confirming that they hold the rights they license to us, and each manuscript is scanned for originality before review. We list, host, sell, print, and (on the Amazon tier) distribute Author Works under the license the author grants us; the formatting, cover design, and listing metadata we prepare for an Author Work are Company IP unless the author agreement provides otherwise. An Author Work may be removed from sale at the author's request under the author agreement or by us under Section 3.4.

3. User-Generated Content and DMCA Notice-and-Takedown

Certain features of the Services — including Loom research workspaces (and workspaces published to its public wall), clips of archive items, and the author program — allow users to post content such as notes, quotations, images, links, and manuscripts ("User Content"). A published workspace can also be reported from its own page ("Report"), and each report is reviewed by a person. Temple Seven Press, Inc. respects the intellectual property rights of others and responds to notices of alleged copyright infringement in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512 (the "DMCA"). Our policy is to expeditiously remove or disable access to material that is claimed to be infringing when we receive a compliant notice, to notify the user who posted it, and to terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of repeat infringers.

3.1 Filing an Infringement Notice

If you believe that any content on the Services — whether a Temple Seven Edition or User Content — infringes your copyright, send a written notification to our Designated Agent (Section 4) or submit it through the form on this page. To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), your notification must include substantially the following:

• A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf (typing your full legal name in the form serves as an electronic signature);
• Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed (or, for multiple works at a single site, a representative list);
• Identification of the material claimed to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate it (a URL on www.templeseven.com is best);
• Your contact information, including a mailing address, telephone number, and email address;
• A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
• A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that material was removed by mistake, may be liable for damages.

3.2 Our Response and Counter-Notification

When we receive a compliant notice, we will expeditiously remove or disable access to the identified material and take reasonable steps to promptly notify the user who posted it. That user may submit a counter-notification under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g) using the counter-notification form on this page (sign in required) or by writing to our Designated Agent. A counter-notification must include: identification of the removed material and its former location; a statement under penalty of perjury that the user has a good faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification; the user's name, address, and telephone number; consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the user's judicial district (or, if outside the United States, any judicial district in which we may be found) and acceptance of service of process from the notifying party; and a physical or electronic signature. Upon receipt of a compliant counter-notification we will forward it to the original claimant; unless the claimant notifies us that they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the alleged infringement, we may restore the removed material in ten (10) to fourteen (14) business days.

3.3 Repeat-Infringer Policy

We maintain a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who are repeat infringers. Takedowns of a user's content following compliant infringement notices are recorded as strikes against the account; accounts that accumulate repeated strikes are reviewed and subject to termination. We may also terminate the access of any person determined to have submitted fraudulent or bad-faith complaints or counter-notifications.

3.4 Complaints About Temple Seven Editions

The same process applies to our own publications, to the newspapers, maps, and pictures in our archive (including pictures offered as Art Prints), and to Author Works. If you believe a Temple Seven Edition infringes your copyright — for example, because a Source Work was not actually in the public domain, or because an Edition reproduces a separately copyrighted illustration, foreword, or introduction added in a later edition of a historical work — or that an archive item or an Author Work infringes your rights, file a notice as described above. Our internal policy is that any credible infringement or provenance complaint results in the title or item being taken down from sale and free access immediately, pending our review; if we determine a title or item was published in error, we will permanently remove it or the affected portion. For an Author Work, we will also notify the author, who may respond under the counter-notification procedure in Section 3.2.

4. Copyright Contact — DMCA Designated Agent

Our designated agent for receiving notifications of claimed infringement under 17 U.S.C. § 512, as registered with the U.S. Copyright Office's DMCA Designated Agent Directory, is:

Copyright Agent
Temple Seven Press, Inc.
971 US Highway 202N #8250, Branchburg, NJ 08876, United States
Phone: (307) 300-9250
Email: dmca@templeseven.com

This mailbox is monitored for copyright complaints as described in Section 3. You may also submit a notice using the report form on this page.

5. Trademarks

"Temple Seven" and associated logos are trademarks or trade dress of Temple Seven Press, Inc. No license to use these marks is granted except as expressly permitted in writing or under our Terms and Conditions.

6. File a report

7. Counter-notification