Draft — not yet legal advice
This document is a working draft prepared from primary-source research into the Saudi Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL), the EU and UK GDPR, the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). It has not been reviewed by a lawyer. It is not legal advice and it does not create a solicitor-client or attorney-client relationship.
Before OLAYN launches, this document must be reviewed and signed off by qualified counsel: a Saudi PDPL practitioner as the primary reviewer, plus US counsel (COPPA and DMCA), and EU/UK counsel if the platform is offered to learners or schools in those markets. Passages marked in amber still need real information supplied by OLAYN.
Copyright & DMCA
Who owns the material on OLAYN, how to ask permission to use it, and how to report material that infringes your copyright. This page also explains what to do if your own content was removed and you believe that was a mistake.
1. Copyright notice
© 2026 OLAYN ISLAMIC FOUNDATION. All rights reserved.
All content on this website and in the OLAYN learning platform is protected by copyright under the Copyright Law of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Berne Convention, and the copyright laws of other countries.
2. What is protected
OLAYN, or its licensors, owns the copyright in everything we publish, including:
- course structure, lesson text, explanations and teaching sequences;
- video and audio recordings, and their scripts;
- worksheets, exercises, tests, questions and answer keys;
- vocabulary sets, flashcards and translations;
- games, game levels, game design and the artwork in them;
- illustrations, diagrams, photographs and page designs;
- the software that runs the platform;
- our printed books, in every format;
- the OLAYN name, logo and visual identity, which are also protected as trade marks.
Quranic text and classical Arabic sources are not owned by anyone and we make no claim over them. Our copyright covers our own selection, arrangement, translation, explanation, recording and presentation of that material.
Content that students and teachers upload belongs to them, not to us. See section 7 of our Terms of Service.
3. Asking permission
You may quote a short passage for genuine review, teaching commentary or news reporting, with attribution, where the law of your country allows it. Anything beyond that needs our written permission.
We are generally happy to say yes to teachers, mosques, madrasahs and non-profit schools. Email olaynislamicfoundation@gmail.com with what you want to use, where it will appear and who will see it.
4. Reporting infringement
If you own the copyright in material that appears on OLAYN without your permission, you can ask us to remove it. We respond to properly made notices under the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 17 U.S.C. § 512.
Before you send a notice, please consider whether the use might be permitted — for example by fair use, fair dealing, a licence you granted, or an exception in your country's law. The law requires you to consider this in good faith, and a notice sent without doing so can expose you to liability (see section 10).
The six things your notice must contain
To be valid under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)(A), your written notice must include all six of the following. A notice missing any of them may not be actionable, and we may have to come back to you.
| # | What is required |
|---|---|
| 1 | A physical or electronic signature of a person authorised to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. Typing your full name at the end of an email is accepted as an electronic signature. |
| 2 | Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed. If several works at the same location are covered by one notice, a representative list of those works is enough. |
| 3 | Identification of the infringing material you want removed or disabled, with enough information for us to find it — a full URL is best, plus a screenshot or a description of exactly where on the page it appears. |
| 4 | Your contact information, sufficient for us to reach you: your address, your telephone number, and your email address if you have one. |
| 5 | A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law. |
| 6 | A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorised to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. |
Send the completed notice to our designated agent, below. Please put "DMCA Notice" in the subject line so it is not missed.
5. Our designated agent
Notices of claimed copyright infringement should be sent to our designated agent at the details below.
Not yet registered — this must be completed before launch. The safe harbour that protects OLAYN from liability for material uploaded by its users is only available if a designated agent is registered with the United States Copyright Office and that agent's details are published here. Registration has not yet been done. Until it is, OLAYN is exposed even if it removes infringing material promptly.
[ TO BE COMPLETED: register a DMCA designated agent in the US Copyright Office directory at dmca.copyright.gov (USD 6, renew every three years), then fill in every field below ]
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Service provider | OLAYN ISLAMIC FOUNDATION |
| Designated agent name | [ TO BE COMPLETED: full name of the designated agent, or the agent service used ] |
| Full postal address | [ TO BE COMPLETED: full street address including country — a PO box alone is not accepted ] |
| Telephone number | [ TO BE COMPLETED: working telephone number for the agent ] |
| Email address | Until a dedicated address exists, send notices to olaynislamicfoundation@gmail.com with "DMCA Notice" in the subject line. [ TO BE COMPLETED: set up a dedicated copyright@ address and register it with the agent ] |
| Copyright Office registration | [ TO BE COMPLETED: registration date and directory reference once the agent is registered at dmca.copyright.gov ] |
6. What we do with a notice
- We acknowledge receipt.
- We check that the notice contains the six required elements. If something is missing we will tell you what, so you can resend it.
- On a valid notice we expeditiously remove or disable access to the material identified.
- We notify the user who uploaded it, tell them what was removed and why, send them a copy of the notice, and explain how to file a counter-notice.
- We record a strike against that account under our repeat infringer policy.
We may forward your notice, including your name and contact details, to the user who posted the material. If you would prefer certain details withheld, say so — but be aware that a counter-notice procedure requires the parties to be able to identify each other, and some information must be passed on.
7. Filing a counter-notice
If your content was removed and you believe that was a mistake — for example the material was yours, or you had permission, or the use was lawful — you can file a counter-notice under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3).
Your counter-notice must include all four of the following:
- Your physical or electronic signature.
- Identification of the material that was removed or disabled, and the location at which it appeared before it was removed.
- A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification.
- Your name, address and telephone number, together with a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located — or, if your address is outside the United States, of any judicial district in which OLAYN may be found — and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice, or their agent.
A counter-notice is a serious legal document. It exposes your name, address and telephone number to the person who complained, and it consents to being sued in a United States court. If you are unsure, take legal advice before filing one. If a child's work was removed, the counter-notice must be filed by their parent, guardian or school — not by the child.
8. When content is restored
When we receive a valid counter-notice we send a copy to the person who filed the original notice, and we tell them the material will be restored.
We then restore the removed material not less than 10, and not more than 14, business days after receiving the counter-notice — unless our designated agent first receives notice from the original complainant that they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the user from infringing.
| Day | What happens |
|---|---|
| 0 | We receive a valid counter-notice and forward it to the complainant. |
| 0 to 10 business days | The complainant may file a court action and tell our agent. If they do, the material stays down. |
| 10 to 14 business days | If no court action has been notified, we restore the material and remove the strike from the account. |
9. Repeat infringer policy
It is OLAYN's policy to terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe copyright.
This policy is required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(i)(1)(A), and users are informed of it both here and in section 8 of the Terms of Service that they accept. In summary:
- Each valid takedown notice against an account records a strike.
- A strike is cancelled if the content is restored after a valid counter-notice, or if the notice is withdrawn or shown to be invalid.
- We normally warn after the first and second strike.
- An account reaching [ TO BE COMPLETED: number of strikes before termination — must be the same figure as in Terms section 8 ] strikes within a rolling 12-month period is terminated.
- Flagrant or large-scale infringement — such as uploading a pirated book or redistributing our paid courses — can result in immediate termination.
- We keep records of notices and strikes so the policy is applied consistently.
10. Warning about false claims
Do not send a notice or counter-notice you know to be false. Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), any person who knowingly materially misrepresents either that material is infringing, or that material was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, is liable for damages — including costs and attorneys' fees — incurred by the alleged infringer, by any copyright owner or licensee, or by the service provider, as a result of the misrepresentation.
Signing a notice also means signing a statement made under penalty of perjury. Courts have held that a copyright owner must genuinely consider whether a use is lawful, such as fair use, before sending a notice.
We may reject notices that are plainly abusive, and we may decline to act on repeated notices from a sender who has previously misrepresented their position.
11. Complaints outside the United States
The DMCA is United States law. OLAYN is established in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and we also act on properly made complaints under other systems:
- Saudi Arabia. The Copyright Law of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia applies to us, and is administered by the Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property.
- European Union. We act on notices under the notice-and-action rules of the Digital Services Act.
- United Kingdom. We act on notices under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Whichever system you rely on, the practical requirements are much the same: tell us who you are, what work you own, exactly where the infringing material is, and confirm that you genuinely believe the use is not permitted. Use the format in section 4 and we will act on it.
Version 1.0 (draft, unreviewed) — last edited 4 August 2026. This draft is not yet in force. The designated agent block in section 5 must be completed and the agent registered with the United States Copyright Office before OLAYN can rely on the DMCA safe harbour.