Atlantic Image Defense LLC

Hosting providers, platforms and targeted requests

See how infrastructure can be identified, verified and contacted in a proportionate way when direct case correspondence does not resolve the matter.

Provider identification with documented human review

Atlantic examines infrastructure records that are lawfully available to distinguish the website operator, any intermediaries and the provider concerned. A person reviews and documents both the provider classification and any targeted communication before it proceeds.

Question or correction

Anyone affected may use the secure case portal or contact copyright@atlantic-image-defense.com to submit supporting records or point out a factual error.

Atlantic Image Defense LLC

Atlantic supports photographers and rights holders with image monitoring, evidence organization, licensing review and responsible case preparation.

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ATLANTIC IMAGE DEFENSE LLC
54 State Street, Ste 804
PMB 17418
Albany, NY 12207
United States

+1 (347) 853-8625 contact@atlantic-image-defense.com privacy@atlantic-image-defense.com copyright@atlantic-image-defense.com
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© 2026 ATLANTIC IMAGE DEFENSE LLC. All rights reserved. Active company registered in New York under DOS ID 7924876, Filing Number 260526002009.

Made in United States of America CCB.gov - Copyright Claims Board

COPYRIGHT CLAIMS BOARD
P.O. Box 70400
Washington, D.C. 20024-0400
(202) 707-3000 or
1 (877) 476-0778 (toll-free)

Are you a photographer, an authors’ representative or an image distribution platform? Copyright in a photograph arises when it is created and belongs to its author from the outset, with no formalities. Registration is not a condition of protection: in the United States (17 U.S.C. §§ 102(a), 201(a) and 408(a)); in the more than 180 states party to the Berne Convention, across the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania (Art. 5(2)); in the member countries of the World Trade Organization, which must apply these rules under the TRIPS Agreement (Art. 9(1)), or in those that have joined the WIPO Copyright Treaty (Art. 3).

Registration with the U.S. Copyright Office becomes useful, or even necessary, in specific cases: for a U.S. work, it is required before any action in federal court (§ 411(a)); a registration application is required to bring a claim before the Copyright Claims Board (§ 1505); made before the infringement or within three months of publication, it makes statutory damages and attorney’s fees available (§ 412); made within five years of publication, it creates a presumption that the copyright is valid (§ 410(c)).

ATLANTIC IMAGE DEFENSE can be mandated for either service, each handled separately: defending your photographs, which always begins with an amicable approach to the user; registering your works, carried out directly with the U.S. Copyright Office under a mandate signed beforehand, within that office’s own timeframes. ATLANTIC IMAGE DEFENSE is not affiliated with the Copyright Office or the CCB. Register a work with the U.S. Copyright Office

In the United States, copyright in a photograph generally lasts for the author’s life plus 70 years (17 U.S.C. § 302(a)); the Berne Convention sets a minimum of life plus 50 years (Art. 7(1)), which the WIPO Copyright Treaty extends to photographs (Art. 9).