Copyright and DMCA

Last updated 14 November 2026.

Our copyright

Hootshell books are © Ravi Teja K · ProServIQ, all rights reserved, in every edition and format and wherever they are sold: on this website and in the other stores that carry them. A store sells copies under licence; the copyright stays with the author. The text, drawings and code on this website are © Ravi Teja K · ProServIQ too, except where a page says otherwise. The handwriting font is Handlee, used under the SIL Open Font License.

We send takedown notices, including notices under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), when our books are copied without permission. See the piracy declaration.

If you believe we have used your work

This site has no user uploads: everything on it is ours. If you believe something here or in one of our books infringes your copyright, email [email protected] with the subject “Copyright notice” and include:

1. your physical or electronic signature, as the copyright owner or someone authorised to act for them;
2. the work you believe is infringed;
3. the material on this site you believe infringes it, with its web address (and page number, for something inside a book);
4. your name, postal address, telephone number and email address;
5. a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent or the law;
6. a statement that the information in your notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner or authorised to act for the owner.

We read every notice, reply to it, and remove or change material when a notice is valid. Where a book is affected, the fix also goes on that book’s corrections page and into its next corrected edition.

If you received a notice from us

If we asked for something you published to be removed and you believe that was a mistake (for example, it is your own work, or you have permission), write to [email protected] explaining why. You can also use the counter-notice process of the platform that removed it; we will respond to it.

Please be accurate

Under the DMCA, knowingly misrepresenting that material infringes, or that it was removed by mistake, can make the sender liable for damages. If you are unsure whether something infringes, please ask a lawyer first.

This page explains how we handle copyright notices. It is not legal advice.