DMCA & Copyright Policy
This page covers copyright in both directions. It says what we own and what reuse requires, and it sets out the procedure for telling us that something published here infringes your work, including the notice elements required by United States copyright law at 17 U.S.C. section 512.
Last updated: August 2026.
What we own
The original work here belongs to Wisata Hits: the reporting and the sentences it is written in, our photographs and graphics, our translations of Indonesian documents, the datasets we build by hand out of ministry filings, and the archive as a compilation. Freelance work runs under a licence from the person who made it, so the byline stays with them and the rights are shared.
Some material here is not ours to give away. Agency photographs, licensed video, an embedded document, a quoted passage from another outlet: those sit under somebody else’s terms. Check the credit line under an image, because it names the owner you actually need.
Quoting us is welcome, republishing is not
Quote a paragraph or two, name us, and link to the piece. That is how a working press operates, and we do the same to other outlets rather than laundering a competitor’s scoop into “reports said”. Linking never needs permission, and neither does describing our reporting in your own words with a credit.
Taking a whole article, or enough that nobody needs to visit ours, is a different thing, and so is translating a piece and posting it as your own content. Both happen often. Automated collection for a dataset or for model training is barred too, and our terms of service set out that restriction and the directives behind it.
Asking to reprint, translate or syndicate
Write to support@wisatahits.blog with PERMISSION in the subject line. Tell us which piece, where it would appear, for how long, whether the use is commercial, and whether you need a translation. Requests from classrooms, researchers and non-commercial community outlets are usually granted at no charge.
Translation requests get a slower answer on purpose. A weak translation of a story about a subsidy or an evacuation zone does more damage than none at all. We normally ask to see the text before it publishes, with a link back.
Sending us a takedown notice
If you own copyright in something published here, or act for the owner, you can send us a takedown notice. To be valid it needs all of the following, and a notice missing an element slows things down while we write back for the rest.
- Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed, or a representative list where there are several
- Identification of the infringing material, with enough information for us to find it, meaning the full URL and where on the page it sits
- Your contact details: name, mailing address, telephone number and email address
- A statement that you have a good faith belief the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law
- A statement that the information in the notice is accurate and that, under penalty of perjury, you are the owner or are authorised to act for the owner
- Your physical or electronic signature
Send it with DMCA at the front of the subject line. Notices go to the editor who handles our legal correspondence, acting as our contact for copyright claims, and that one inbox is the channel we run, so do not send a notice as a comment and assume it arrived.
What happens after a valid notice
We look at notices the same or the next working day, Jakarta hours. Where a claim is valid we act quickly, removing or disabling the material, and where a reader posted it we tell them what went and why. Where the material is our own reporting, an editor assesses the claim first.
That last point matters, so here it is plainly. Copyright claims are sometimes a lever for erasing accurate coverage, usually a court story a company would prefer gone, and the paid takedown requests we already refuse come back wearing a copyright argument. Quoting a document is not infringement, and disliking a story is not a copyright claim. Where reporting is accurate we keep it up and explain why. Where we used something we had no right to use, we replace it and fix the credit.
If we removed your material and you think we were wrong
Anyone whose posted material came down after a notice can send a counter-notification. It needs your signature, identification of the material and where it appeared before removal, a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief it was removed through mistake or misidentification, your name, address and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court where you live, or if you are outside the United States, any district in which we may be found, and that you will accept service of process from whoever sent the notice.
We forward a valid counter-notification to the complainant. Unless they tell us within ten business days that they have filed a court action to restrain the activity, we restore the material not less than ten and not more than fourteen business days after your counter-notice arrives. We do not rule on who is right in that window.
Repeat infringers, and notices that are not true
Where a reader repeatedly posts other people’s material without permission, we remove the posts and terminate the account, and we keep a record of notices so a pattern stays visible. That applies to comments and reader submissions, the only places material arrives uncommissioned.
A notice or a counter-notice is a legal document. Under section 512(f), anyone who knowingly misrepresents that material is infringing, or that it was removed by mistake, is liable for the damages and legal costs that misrepresentation caused. Our corrections policy covers factual complaints, which is what most of these turn out to be, and our contact page sorts the rest.
