Community Guidelines

What we welcome

• Photographs you took, photos you have rights to, or royalty-free imagery you have permission to derive from.
• Patterns of all skill levels, all stitch types, all aesthetics.
• Honest attribution. If you make a pattern from someone else’s photograph that you have permission to use, credit the original photographer in the source-image-credit field.

What we do not allow

• Sexual, violent, self-harm, or hateful content.
• Images you don’t own or have rights to.
• Spam — repeated near-duplicate uploads, irrelevant promotional content, automated upload behavior.
• Content that targets a real person who hasn’t consented to be portrayed.

Moderation

Every public submission passes an automated content-moderation check (OpenAI Moderation API) and a perceptual-hash check against existing public patterns to prevent duplicates and low-effort spam. Anonymous uploads are rate-limited per IP. For the first 30 days after launch, all public submissions are reviewed by a human before being indexed.

Reporting content

Every public pattern page includes a “Report” button. We review the queue daily and take action within 24 hours when a report is valid.

DMCA takedown

StitchingLab respects copyright. To submit a DMCA takedown notice, email dmca@stitchinglab.com with:

1. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed.
2. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing — including the URL of the StitchingLab pattern page.
3. Your contact information (name, email, mailing address).
4. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized.
5. A statement that the information is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the rights owner.
6. Your physical or electronic signature.

We respond to valid DMCA notices within 24 hours, removing the offending content. We have a documented repeat-infringer policy and will terminate accounts that repeatedly upload infringing material. Counter-notice: if your content was removed in error, you may submit a counter-notice using the same email.

Designated agent

StitchingLab DMCA Agent
dmca@stitchinglab.com