Copyright & takedowns

Everything on this site started as someone else’s reporting. This page explains what we do with it, what we refuse to do with it, and how to get something removed if we have got it wrong.

Last updated 7 September 2026

What we publish

Each story here is an original summary, written from several publications’ reporting on the same event. We describe what happened; we do not republish how anyone else described it. Every story names each outlet it drew on and links to the original article.

What we never do

• Reproduce an article’s text. Our summaries are checked against every source and rejected automatically if any run of eight consecutive words matches one.
• Use publishers’ photography or other images.
• Republish an article in full, or a substitute long enough to replace reading it.
• Route around paywalls. Paywalled outlets are credited and linked, but their text never enters our pipeline.
• Ignore a publisher’s robots.txt, or crawl faster than it allows.

The point of a summary here is to send you to the reporting, not to spare you from it.

If you are a publisher

Facts are not copyrightable and short original summaries with attribution are, we believe, a fair use. You may disagree about a particular story, and you do not have to argue the point with us first.

Email support@concisesignal.com with the URL of the story on this site and what you want changed. We will act on it. If you ask us to stop covering your publication altogether, we will remove it from our sources and stop.

Formal notices

To make a copyright complaint under the DMCA, or the equivalent where you are, send support@concisesignal.com a notice including:

• identification of the work you say has been infringed;
• the URL on this site of the material you want removed;
• your contact details;
• a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
• a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act for them;
• your physical or electronic signature.

We remove first and discuss afterwards. Repeat infringement by any source will end its inclusion.

Corrections

If a summary is inaccurate — as opposed to infringing — that is also worth an email. We would rather fix a wrong story than defend it, and a summary that misrepresents someone’s reporting is a failure whether or not it is legal.

Our own material

The summaries, headlines, ranking, code and design of this site are © 2026 Concise Signal. Publishers’ headlines, article text, trademarks and logos remain the property of their owners, who neither endorse nor are affiliated with this site.