Copyright Policy

Last updated: October 13, 2026

1. Overview

1.1 Cardinal is a live-video streaming service operated by 1st Flock, LLC (“Cardinal,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). We respect the intellectual-property rights of others and expect the people who use the Service to do the same. This Copyright Policy (the “Policy”) explains how we respond to claims that content streamed, recorded, or displayed through the Service infringes copyright, under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512 (the “DMCA”), and similar laws. It is part of the Cardinal Terms of Service (the “Terms”), and capitalized terms not defined here have the meanings given in the Terms.

1.2 This Policy applies to all content made available through the Service by Customers, Partners, Partners’ End Customers, and Viewers, including live Broadcasts, Recordings, titles and descriptions, images and logos, chat messages, and content forwarded to Restream Destinations.

1.3 We do not pre-screen content. We act on notices that meet the requirements below, and we may also act on our own initiative under the Terms and the Acceptable Use Policy.

2. Designated agent

2.1 Notices of claimed infringement must be sent to our designated agent:

Copyright Agent, 1st Flock, LLC (Cardinal)
4000 Legato Road, Suite 1100, Fairfax, Virginia 22033
Email: legal@cardinalstreaming.com

2.2 The designated agent handles only copyright notices. Send other matters to the contact addresses in the Terms. Notices sent to other addresses may not be processed.

3. Submitting a notice of claimed infringement

3.1 If you believe that content on the Service infringes a copyright that you own or are authorized to enforce, send a written notice to the designated agent that includes all of the following, as required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3):

(a) a physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;

(b) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed or, if multiple works are covered by a single notice, a representative list of those works;

(c) identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and that is to be removed or disabled, with information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate it. For the Service this means the full address of the watch page or the page where the Player is embedded, the Broadcast or Recording identifier if you have it, the date and time (with time zone) at which the infringing material appeared, and, for a Recording, the timestamps within the Recording;

(d) information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address;

(e) 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

(f) a statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

3.2 Before sending a notice, consider whether the use might be permitted by law, for example as fair use, or by a license (including performing-rights or church-streaming licenses that a Customer may hold). Section 8 explains the consequences of a knowingly false notice.

3.3 A notice that does not substantially comply with Section 3.1 may not be acted on. If a notice is deficient only in part, we may contact you to request the missing information.

3.4 We may forward your notice, including your name and contact information, to the Customer or Partner responsible for the content, and we may publish the notice with personal information removed.

4. What we do when we receive a valid notice

4.1 Live Broadcasts. Live streaming raises a special issue: content that is being streamed now cannot be “removed” later in a way that undoes the live transmission. When we receive a notice that substantially complies with Section 3.1 concerning a Broadcast that is currently live, we may end the Broadcast immediately, in whole, without first contacting the Customer, and disable the resulting Recording. We may also disable restreaming of that Broadcast. We will notify the Customer or Partner afterward.

4.2 Recordings and other stored content. When we receive a compliant notice concerning a Recording, title, image, or other stored content, we will expeditiously remove or disable access to the identified material and notify the Customer or Partner responsible, providing a copy of the notice.

4.3 Partners’ End Customers. Where the content belongs to a Partner’s End Customer, we notify the Partner, which is responsible for notifying its End Customer and for forwarding any counter-notification to us.

4.4 No obligation to adjudicate. We are not in a position to judge the merits of a copyright dispute. Acting on a notice is not a finding that the content was infringing, and declining to act on a deficient notice is not a finding that it was not.

4.5 Fees. Ending a Broadcast or disabling a Recording under this Policy does not entitle the Customer to any refund or credit, and Fees incurred remain payable.

5. Counter-notification

5.1 If you are a Customer (or a Partner acting for an End Customer) and you believe that content was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter-notification to the designated agent that includes all of the following, as required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3):

(a) your physical or electronic signature;

(b) identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled, and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or disabled (for a Broadcast, the Broadcast or Recording identifier and date);

(c) 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 of the material to be removed or disabled; and

(d) your name, address, and telephone number, and 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, for any judicial district in which Cardinal may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original notice or an agent of that person.

5.2 We will forward the counter-notification, including your contact information, to the person who sent the original notice. By submitting a counter-notification you consent to that disclosure.

6. Restoration after a counter-notification

6.1 If we receive a compliant counter-notification, we will restore the removed material, or cease disabling access to it, not less than 10 and not more than 14 business days after we receive the counter-notification, unless the designated agent first receives notice from the original complainant that it has filed an action seeking a court order to restrain the Customer from engaging in infringing activity relating to the material.

6.2 Limits on restoration specific to this Service. A live Broadcast that was ended cannot be restored; only its Recording can be. Recordings are permanently deleted 30 days after they are written regardless of this Policy. If a Recording’s scheduled deletion date falls before the restoration date in Section 6.1, the Recording will be deleted on schedule and cannot be restored, and we have no liability for that deletion. We do not extend the retention of any Recording because a notice or counter-notification is pending.

7. Repeat infringers

7.1 We terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the Accounts of Customers who are repeat infringers, and we require Partners to terminate the access of End Customers who are repeat infringers.

7.2 We keep a record of notices received against each Account and, where a Partner is involved, against each End Customer identifier. A Customer or End Customer against whom we receive three compliant notices within any 12-month period that are not successfully challenged by counter-notification will ordinarily be treated as a repeat infringer and terminated. We may terminate earlier for flagrant or large-scale infringement, and we may decline to count notices that we determine were made in bad faith.

7.3 We may also terminate or suspend an Account, or end a Broadcast, for infringement at any time under the Terms, whether or not a DMCA notice has been received.

7.4 A Customer whose Account is terminated as a repeat infringer may not open a new Account, and a Partner may not re-enroll a terminated End Customer under a different identifier.

8. Misrepresentation

8.1 Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity is infringing, or that material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, is liable for damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees, incurred by the alleged infringer, by the copyright owner or its licensee, or by us as a result of our relying on the misrepresentation. Do not send a notice or counter-notification unless you are confident that it is accurate and that you are authorized to send it. We may seek to recover our costs and damages from anyone who submits a knowingly false notice or counter-notification, and we may refuse to accept further notices from them.

9. Partners

9.1 A Partner must: provide us with a copyright contact that we can reach at all times its End Customers may be live; forward notices and counter-notifications between us and its End Customers promptly; maintain its own repeat-infringer policy consistent with this one for its End Customers; terminate End Customers that we identify as repeat infringers; and refrain from re-enrolling terminated End Customers. A Partner is responsible under the Terms for infringement by its End Customers.

10. Trademark and other intellectual-property complaints

10.1 This Policy’s DMCA procedure applies to copyright. If you believe content on the Service infringes your trademark, right of publicity, or other intellectual-property right, send a notice to the designated agent in Section 2 describing the right, the content, its location, and the basis of your claim, with your contact details and a statement that the notice is accurate. We will review such notices under the Terms and the Acceptable Use Policy and may remove content or end Broadcasts in our discretion. The counter-notification and restoration procedures in Sections 5 and 6 do not apply to non-copyright complaints.

11. Rights-holder cooperation

11.1 Rights holders who anticipate recurring issues with live events (for example, sports leagues or music rights organizations) may contact the designated agent to discuss an expedited notification channel. We offer such channels at our discretion and are not obliged to. Any such arrangement does not replace the requirements of Section 3.

12. Changes

12.1 We may update this Policy as described in the Terms. The version in effect when a notice is received governs that notice.