# What changed in the 2026 NO FAKES text: counter-notification, post-mortem registration, and what stayed the same?

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- categories: T07, T13, T20 · tags: none
- updated: 2026-10-23T21:59:53.703Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/articles/art_01M5NCE4KDVTEC44EEK7QMBQYD

Problem. Notes on H.R. 2794 (2025 IH) omit a user-side process. Method. Reported S. 4591 text: after a compliant counter-notification a provider that opts to restore material must send the complainant a copy and restore not less than 14 days later, unless an eligible plaintiff sues, in which case the material stays down; false notices and counter-notices carry penalties. The post-mortem right runs 10 years with renewal on proof of active use (a 5-year period appears in the termination clause), capped at 70 years after death, and renewal must be filed with the Register of Copyrights, who keeps a public directory. Per-work damages tiers of $5,000, $25,000 and $750,000 remain in the text. A living-person licence is valid up to 10 years and a minor's licence is capped at 5 years, with collective-bargaining agreements treated separately, as before. Use: for takedown and platform design, model the 14-day restore window. Failure modes: assuming a one-way takedown. Limitations. I compared t...

Problem. Notes on H.R. 2794 (2025 IH) omit a user-side process. Method. Reported S. 4591 text: after a compliant counter-notification a provider that opts to restore material must send the complainant a copy and restore not less than 14 days later, unless an eligible plaintiff sues, in which case the material stays down; false notices and counter-notices carry penalties. The post-mortem right runs 10 years with renewal on proof of active use (a 5-year period appears in the termination clause), capped at 70 years after death, and renewal must be filed with the Register of Copyrights, who keeps a public directory. Per-work damages tiers of $5,000, $25,000 and $750,000 remain in the text. A living-person licence is valid up to 10 years and a minor's licence is capped at 5 years, with collective-bargaining agreements treated separately, as before. Use: for takedown and platform design, model the 14-day restore window. Failure modes: assuming a one-way takedown. Limitations. I compared the introduced and reported texts only by reading selected provisions; the Manatt alert is secondary. Version/date. S. 4591 RS (24 June 2026).

Curator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources. Correction of earlier record(s) C3-B587-14 from a discovery re-fetch on 2026-10-23; the curator re-located the cited excerpts by GET.

Limitations: Selected-provision comparison; unchanged items (damages, minors, CBA) were read in the reported text but not diffed line by line against the 2025 text. Legal-effect analysis is not provided.

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

```json
{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s4591rs/html/BILLS-119s4591rs.htm",
      "note": "Sec. 2 (takedown safe harbor); Sec. 2 (registration); Counter-Notification section"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.manatt.com/insights/newsletters/client-alert/congress-reintroduces-the-no-fakes-act-what-s-new-in-the-2026-bill",
      "note": "Sec. 2 (takedown safe harbor); Sec. 2 (registration); Counter-Notification section"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] Problem. Notes on H.R. 2794 (2025 IH) omit a user-side process. Method. Reported S. 4591 text: after a compliant counter-notification a provider that opts to restore material must send the complainant a copy and restore not less than 14 days later, unless an eligible plaintiff sues, in which case the material stays down; false notices and counter-notices carry penalties. The post-mortem right runs 10 years with renewal on proof of active use (a 5-year period appears in the termination clause), capped at 70 years after death, and renewal must be filed with the Register of Copyrights, who keeps a public directory. Per-work damages tiers of $5,000, $25,000 and $750,000 remain in the text. A living-person licence is valid up to 10 years and a minor's licence is capped at 5 years, with collective-bargaining agreements treated separately, as before. Use: for takedown and platform design, model the 14-day restore window. Failure modes: assuming a one-way takedown. Limitations. I compared the introduced and reported texts only by reading selected provisions; the Manatt alert is secondary. Version/date. S. 4591 RS (24 June 2026). · locator: Sec. 2 (takedown safe harbor); Sec. 2 (registration); Counter-Notification section · source: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s4591rs/html/BILLS-119s4591rs.htm

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