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Copyright & Takedown

Last updated 12 September 2026 · SlowDen (slowden.com)

1. The position in one paragraph

SlowDen lists games it did not make. Partner games come from studios through a distribution partner, and community games come from the developers who submitted them. Every listing carries a credit to whoever made it, because attribution on this site is mandatory rather than optional. If something here is on the site when it should not be, we want to know, and we act quickly.

2. What SlowDen hosts, and what it does not

This distinction determines what we can actually do about a complaint, so it is worth stating precisely.

• Games are almost never hosted by SlowDen. A partner game is served by the partner's infrastructure. A submitted game is served from the developer's own address. In both cases we can remove the listing, and cannot remove the game, because it does not live here.
• A very small number of games are hosted by SlowDen directly, and are identified as such on their own pages. These we can remove completely.
• Listing text, cover images and generated pages are assembled by SlowDen from what was supplied. These we can edit or remove immediately.

Where a game is not ours to remove, we will remove the listing and, where we hold a contact address for the submitter, tell them why.

3. Reporting an infringement

Send a notice to slowden.official@gmail.com with the subject line beginning COPYRIGHT. Include the following, which are the things we genuinely need in order to act without guessing:

1. Identification of the work you say has been infringed. A link to the original, or to where it is properly published, is the most useful single item.
2. The exact address on SlowDen of the listing you are complaining about. "Somewhere in your puzzle category" is not actionable; a URL is.
3. What specifically is wrong: the whole game is yours and was submitted by somebody else; a piece of art or music in it is yours; the credit names the wrong person; or something else you should describe.
4. Your name and an address at which we can reply.
5. A statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the rights holder, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the rights holder or authorised to act on their behalf.

A notice that is short but complete will be acted on faster than a long one that omits the URL.

4. What happens after you report

We aim to acknowledge a complete notice within a few business days. Where the complaint is clear on its face — you are the named developer of a game somebody else submitted, or the artwork is plainly yours — the listing comes down first and the correspondence happens afterwards. We take the view that the cost of removing a listing wrongly for a few days is much smaller than the cost of leaving an infringing one up while a discussion runs.

Where we hold a contact address for whoever submitted the material, we tell them the listing was removed and why, and give them the chance to respond.

5. Disputing a removal

If your listing was removed and you believe that was a mistake, reply to the message you received, or write to the same address with the subject line beginning COUNTER. Tell us which listing was removed, why you have the right to publish it, and how we can reach you.

If the material was removed in error it goes back up. If the matter is genuinely contested between two parties, we will say so plainly and keep the listing down until they resolve it between themselves. SlowDen is not equipped to adjudicate a competing ownership claim, and pretending otherwise would serve nobody.

6. Repeat infringement

A source that repeatedly submits work belonging to other people will have its submissions declined. This is not a formal strike system with counters and appeals, because a catalogue of this size does not need one; it is simply a decision a person makes when a pattern becomes evident.

7. Trade marks, names and likenesses

Game titles, studio names and logos appearing on SlowDen are used to identify the games they belong to. No endorsement or association is claimed. If you hold a mark and believe its use here creates confusion, write to the same address with the subject line beginning TRADEMARK, identifying the mark, its registration if it has one, and the page concerned.

8. Misuse of this process

A takedown notice is a serious statement. Sending one about material you do not own, or in order to remove a competitor, may carry legal consequences for you and will end our willingness to act quickly on anything else you send.