At CasinoRoundtable we own and operate the website at https://www.casinoroundtable.com/ (the “Site”). This Copyright Policy explains what we own and what visitors may and may not do with it. It also covers how we handle infringement claims in both directions: those made against content on the Site, and those we make when our own content is copied elsewhere.

This policy should be read alongside our Terms of Service, which already sets out a general license restriction on reproducing Site material. It also complements our Privacy Policy, which covers how we collect and use visitor data rather than content ownership. Our Rights and Obligations page covers player rights and responsibilities in the same way, again separately from content ownership. This page goes further than any of those. It defines ownership in detail, sets rules for automated and AI-related use of our content, and establishes a formal DMCA notice-and-takedown procedure.

Quick Summary

• We own the reviews, rankings, comparison tables, and graphics we publish on this Site. Casino brand names and trademarks stay with their own owners.
• You can link to any page and quote a short, attributed sentence or two. You can’t republish, mirror, or scrape our articles, rankings, or data, even with credit.
• Bulk AI training or dataset scraping isn’t licensed. Short, attributed AI citations and search indexing are treated differently. See Section 4.
• Think your content was copied onto this Site without permission, or your own takedown notice was wrong? Sections 7 and 8 cover how to report it and how to dispute one.
• S. copyright law allows real financial penalties for infringement (Section 6), and this isn’t just boilerplate.
• Questions, licensing requests, or anything not covered here go through Section 13.

Ownership of Content

Unless a specific page states otherwise, we own or hold a license to all content published on the Site, including but not limited to:

• Articles, guides, reviews, and blog posts
• Editorial ratings, scores, and rankings of online casinos, games, and bonuses
• Original tables, comparison charts, and data compilations
• Graphics, logos, icons, and page layouts created by or for the Site
• The selection, coordination, and arrangement of the above elements

This content is protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Code and under the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, to which the United States has been a signatory since 1989. Copyright protection under U.S. law attaches automatically at the moment a work is fixed in a tangible medium. Publishing a page on the Site is sufficient, and no registration is required for the underlying protection to exist.

Registration with the U.S. Copyright Office is, however, generally a prerequisite for filing an infringement lawsuit in U.S. federal court (17 U.S.C. § 411). It’s also required to recover statutory damages or attorney’s fees for infringement that occurred before registration (17 U.S.C. § 412). Copyright in this material exists independently of any copyright a visitor or third party may hold in material they submit to the Site (see Section 8).

Trademarks, service marks, casino brand names, game titles, and software provider names referenced on the Site belong to their respective owners. We use them only for identification and editorial commentary. Their use does not imply that those brands endorse, or are affiliated with, us.

How Copyright Works for Gambling Affiliate Content

Copyright can feel confusing, so here’s the plain-English version.

Copyright protects the words, not the facts. A bonus amount, an RTP percentage, or a wagering requirement is a fact. Nobody owns a fact. But the sentences we write to explain that fact belong to us. So does the way we organize and compare it against other casinos. Two sites can both report that a casino offers a 200% match bonus. They can’t both use the same sentence to say it.

What this means in practice, on this Site:

• We own the specific wording of our reviews and guides
• We own our editorial scores and how we rank casinos against each other
• We own the layout and selection of our comparison tables
• We own our original graphics and page designs

What nobody owns, including us:

• The bonus terms, RTP figures, or licensing facts themselves
• A casino’s own name, logo, or trademark
• General industry knowledge anyone could look up independently

What to look for if you suspect content was copied. A few signs are worth checking before jumping to conclusions:

• The same unusual phrase or turn of wording appears on both pages, not just the same facts
• A comparison table has the same casinos, in the same order, with the same scores
• A review reads like ours with just the casino name swapped out
• A distinctive example, anecdote, or aside shows up word-for-word somewhere else

A myth worth clearing up. Changing a few words in a copied article does not make it original. Courts use a test called “substantial similarity.” It asks a simple question: does the piece still read like ours in structure and wording, even with some words swapped?

Checking whether something crosses that line? Section 1 above spells out what we own. Section 7 explains how to report a suspected copy.

What You May Not Do

Without our prior written permission, you may not:

• Republish, redistribute, or mirror any article, review, or ranking from the Site, in whole or in substantial part, on another website, app, newsletter, or platform
• Copy or scrape Site content (by hand or through automated tools, bots, or crawlers) for republication, resale, or incorporation into another commercial product
• Reproduce our comparison tables, scoring methodology, or ranking data and present them as your own
• Remove, obscure, or alter copyright notices, attribution, or byline information on any page
• Use our name, logo, or the “CasinoRoundtable” brand in a way that implies partnership, endorsement, or affiliation without a separate written agreement

This restriction applies regardless of format: text, screenshots, PDF exports, cached copies, or content repackaged through a third-party tool.

Use of Site Content by AI Systems and Automated Tools

This section covers something traditional copyright language doesn’t: automated collection of Site content by AI crawlers, LLM training pipelines, and answer-engine indexing tools.

• We do not license bulk scraping, mirroring, or wholesale reproduction of Site content for training, fine-tuning, or building a commercial AI model or dataset.
• We distinguish between two kinds of automated agent. Training crawlers (OpenAI’s GPTBot, Anthropic’s ClaudeBot and anthropic-ai, Google’s Google-Extended, ByteDance’s Bytespider, Meta’s Meta-ExternalAgent, and the Common Crawl Foundation’s CCBot) collect content for model training or fine-tuning. Retrieval or citation crawlers (OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, and standard search-indexing bots like Googlebot and Bingbot) fetch content in real time to generate a cited, attributed answer to a specific query.
• Automated agents identifying themselves as AI crawlers are expected to observe the access rules published in our txt file at https://www.casinoroundtable.com/robots.txt. Training-crawler user-agents may be disallowed there without affecting the Site’s presence in standard search results or its eligibility to be cited in real-time AI answers.
• Short, attributed excerpts used for search indexing, AI-generated answers, or citation are treated differently from bulk ingestion or republication, and are not the target of this section. This applies when the excerpt is clearly sourced back to this Site and does not substitute for reading the original page.
• The financial stakes here are not hypothetical. In 2025, a group of authors and Anthropic reached a $1.5 billion class-action settlement covering claims tied to roughly 500,000 works allegedly used in AI training data (*Bartz v. Anthropic*, N.D. Cal.). We mention this only to show the scale of exposure such disputes can involve, not as a comment on the merits of that case.
• Any organization seeking a licensing arrangement to use Site content at scale for AI training or dataset purposes should contact us before doing so (see Section 13).

Permitted Use

You are welcome to:

• Link to any page on the Site using a standard hyperlink
• Quote a brief, clearly attributed excerpt (a sentence or two) in your own original commentary, with a link back to the source page
• Share Site pages on social media using the platform’s native share function
• Reference our published rankings or figures in your own article, provided the reference is clearly attributed and does not reproduce the underlying table or dataset itself

These permissions match, and don’t expand, the linking terms already set out in our Terms of Service.

Legal Framework and Potential Damages

Copyright infringement in the United States is governed primarily by the Copyright Act of 1976 (17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq.) and, for online conduct, by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (Pub. L. 105-304), which added the § 512 safe harbor and notice-and-takedown framework referenced throughout this policy. For context on what infringement can mean in practical terms:

• Under 17 U.S.C. § 504(c)(1), a court may award statutory damages of $750 to $30,000 per infringed work, without the copyright owner needing to prove actual financial loss.
• Where infringement is found to be willful, § 504(c)(2) allows the court to increase that award to as much as $150,000 per work.
• Where infringement is found to be innocent (the infringer had no reason to believe their conduct was unlawful), the court may reduce the minimum award to as little as $200 per work.
• Civil copyright claims are subject to a three-year statute of limitations from the date the claim accrued (17 U.S.C. § 507(b)).

We share this information for transparency, not as a threat to any specific party. As noted in Section 13, it is not legal advice.

Reporting Copyright Infringement (DMCA Notice)

If you believe content on the Site infringes a copyright you own or control, you may submit a notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512). To be effective, your notice must include:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed
3. Identification of the material claimed to be infringing, with enough detail (e.g., a URL) for us to locate it on the Site
4. Your contact information: name, address, telephone number, and email address
5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law
6. A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner’s behalf

Send DMCA notices to: [support@casinoroundtable.com] [If registered: Our designated agent is also listed with the U.S. Copyright Office’s DMCA Designated Agent Directory at dmca.copyright.gov, as required under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(2). Designations filed with the Office carry a $6 filing fee per designation, amendment, or resubmission, and must be renewed every three years to remain valid.]

Notices that do not substantially comply with these requirements may not receive a response.

Counter-Notification

If material you posted or are responsible for was removed in response to a DMCA notice and you believe it was removed in error, you may submit a counter-notification containing:

7. Your physical or electronic signature
8. Identification of the material removed and its location before removal
9. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification
10. Your name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court in your district (or, if outside the U.S., an appropriate judicial district) and will accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice

Send counter-notifications to the same contact listed in Section 7.

Repeat Infringers

We reserve the right to remove content, disable access, and terminate accounts or comment privileges for repeat infringers. This is consistent with our Terms of Service.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do we own the casino reviews and rankings published on the Site?

Yes. We own the original reviews, ratings, and ranking methodology published on casinoroundtable.com unless a page states otherwise. Casino brand names and trademarks referenced within that content remain the property of their respective owners.

Can another website republish one of your articles if it credits you as the source?

No. Attribution alone does not grant permission to republish, mirror, or substantially reproduce an article. A brief, attributed excerpt with a link back is permitted; full or near-full reproduction is not, even with credit.

Can an AI tool or chatbot quote a short passage from this Site and cite it?

Short, clearly attributed excerpts used for citation or search indexing are treated differently from bulk scraping or content ingestion for model training. Section 4 of this policy sets out the distinction, and bulk use for AI training requires separate permission.

How do I report a page that copied our content without permission?

Submit a DMCA takedown notice containing the information listed in Section 7 to the designated contact provided there.

How do I dispute a takedown if I believe my content was removed by mistake?

Submit a counter-notification containing the information listed in Section 8 to the same contact.

What are the potential damages for copyright infringement under U.S. law?

Under 17 U.S.C. § 504(c), a court can award statutory damages of $750 to $30,000 per infringed work, with no need to prove actual loss. Willful infringement can raise that to $150,000 per work; innocent infringement can lower it to as little as $200. Civil copyright claims must generally be filed within three years of the infringing act (17 U.S.C. § 507(b)).

Which AI crawlers does this Copyright Policy address, and how are they treated differently?

The policy distinguishes AI training crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai, Google-Extended, Bytespider, Meta-ExternalAgent, and CCBot) from retrieval and citation crawlers (OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Googlebot, and Bingbot). Training crawlers collect content to build or fine-tune AI models; retrieval crawlers fetch content in real time to generate an attributed, cited answer to a specific query. Section 4 sets out how each is treated.

Glossary of Terms

Plain-English definitions of the legal and technical terms used throughout this policy.

Copyright: The legal right to control how an original piece of writing, art, or other creative work is copied, distributed, or reused. It exists automatically the moment something is written down or otherwise fixed. No registration is needed for the protection itself to exist (though registration unlocks certain legal remedies, see Section 1).

Fair use: A legal doctrine that allows limited use of someone else’s copyrighted material without permission, for purposes like commentary, criticism, or news reporting. Whether a specific use qualifies depends on several factors a court weighs case by case. It is not a fixed rule or a guaranteed defense.

DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act): The 1998 U.S. law that created the notice-and-takedown process this policy follows, along with legal protections for websites that host user-submitted content.

Safe harbor: A legal protection under the DMCA that shields a website from liability for infringing content its users post, as long as the site follows the DMCA’s notice-and-takedown rules and has a registered agent.

Designated agent: The person or role a website registers with the U.S. Copyright Office to receive copyright complaints. See Section 7.

Takedown notice: A formal written request asking a website to remove content that allegedly infringes someone’s copyright.

Counter-notification: A formal written response from the person whose content was removed, arguing the takedown was a mistake. See Section 8.

Statutory damages: A fixed dollar range a court can award for copyright infringement without the copyright owner having to prove an exact financial loss. See Section 6.

Willful infringement: Copying a court finds was done knowingly. This can raise the statutory damages a court awards.

Innocent infringement: Copying a court finds was done with no reason to know it was unauthorized. This can lower the statutory damages a court awards.

Substantial similarity: The legal test courts use to decide whether one piece of writing copies another. The test asks whether the overall structure, sequence, and expression are still recognizably the same, not whether every word matches exactly.

Trademark: A separate kind of legal protection covering names, logos, and brand identifiers, such as a casino’s own name. This differs from copyright, which covers writing, art, and other original works.

Training crawler: An automated program that collects web content to train or fine-tune an AI model. See Section 4.

Retrieval or citation crawler: An automated program that fetches a specific web page in real time to answer a live query, then cites the source. See Section 4.

robots.txt: A text file websites publish that tells automated crawlers which pages they may or may not access.

Fixed in a tangible medium: The legal moment copyright protection begins: as soon as a work is written down, saved, recorded, or otherwise captured in a form other people can perceive.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Copyright Policy from time to time to reflect changes in law, Site content, or how content is accessed by automated systems. The “Last updated” date at the top of this page reflects the most recent revision. Continued use of the Site after a change constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.

Contact

Questions about this Copyright Policy, licensing requests, or content-use permissions can be directed through our Contact Us page.

This page is a general copyright and DMCA notice-and-takedown policy template and does not constitute legal advice. Consult a qualified attorney to confirm this policy fits your jurisdiction, business structure, and DMCA agent registration requirements with the U.S. Copyright Office before publishing.