Copyright & Content Policy

This Copyright & Content Policy explains how content appearing on freewishes.in is created, sourced, attributed, reviewed, used and removed where appropriate.

FreeWishes is managed by: Dotdunia Technologies, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Copyright & Content Contact: [email protected]

1. Purpose of This Policy

FreeWishes publishes and provides access to content such as:

• Wishes
• Greetings
• Quotes
• Captions
• Messages
• Festival information
• Special-day information
• Greeting cards
• Baby-name information
• Articles
• Educational and informational content
• Creative content
• AI-assisted content
• Images and graphics
• Other related material

We aim to respect the rights of authors, artists, photographers, creators, publishers and other rights holders.

If you believe any content on FreeWishes infringes your rights, has been incorrectly attributed, contains your work without appropriate permission, or should otherwise be reviewed, you may request correction or removal.

2. Types of Content on FreeWishes

Content on FreeWishes may include one or more of the following categories.

2.1 Original FreeWishes Content

Some content is created specifically for FreeWishes.

This may include:

• Original wishes
• Greetings
• Captions
• Descriptions
• Editorial articles
• Festival explanations
• Product copy
• Educational content
• Interface content
• Original illustrations or designs
• Other creative material

Unless otherwise stated, original FreeWishes content is owned by or licensed to FreeWishes or Dotdunia Technologies.

3. Editorially Curated Content

Some material may be collected, researched, summarised or curated from:

• Publicly available information
• Historical sources
• Cultural traditions
• Public records
• Reference materials
• Widely known sayings
• Other lawful sources

Editorial curation does not necessarily mean FreeWishes claims ownership over the underlying third-party material.

Where appropriate, we seek to provide attribution or contextual information.

4. Quotes and Attributions

FreeWishes may publish quotations attributed to:

• Authors
• Philosophers
• Public figures
• Historical personalities
• Religious figures
• Artists
• Writers
• Scientists
• Other notable individuals

We aim to use reasonable care when attributing quotations.

However, quote attribution on the internet can sometimes be uncertain, disputed or historically inaccurate.

Accordingly:

• FreeWishes does not guarantee that every attribution is historically definitive.
• We may update or remove attribution when better evidence becomes available.
• We may label uncertain quotations as “Attributed to,” “Often attributed to,” “Traditional,” “Unknown,” or similar wording.
• We may remove quotations where authorship cannot reasonably be verified and continued publication creates concern.

If you believe an attribution is incorrect, please contact: [email protected]

5. Public-Domain Content

FreeWishes may use works that are believed to be in the public domain.

A work may enter the public domain because:

• Copyright has expired
• Copyright never applied
• Rights were expressly waived
• Applicable law otherwise permits unrestricted use

Public-domain status may vary between countries.

FreeWishes may therefore review or restrict material if a legitimate rights concern is raised.

6. Traditional and Cultural Material

Certain expressions, greetings, sayings, proverbs, festival traditions and cultural phrases may not have a single identifiable author.

FreeWishes may present such material as:

• Traditional
• Cultural
• Commonly used
• Folk material
• Author unknown
• Similar descriptive wording

We do not claim exclusive ownership over traditional or culturally established expressions merely because they appear on FreeWishes.

7. Copyright Exceptions

FreeWishes may in limited circumstances use copyrighted material where permitted under applicable law.

Depending on jurisdiction, relevant exceptions may include:

• Fair dealing
• Fair use
• Quotation
• Criticism
• Review
• Commentary
• Research
• Private study
• Education
• News reporting
• Parody or similar statutory exceptions
• Other lawful exceptions

Such exceptions are fact-specific and vary by jurisdiction.

FreeWishes does not assume that material automatically becomes lawful to use merely because:

• It is available online
• It is used for educational purposes
• It is credited
• It is non-commercial
• It is described as “fair use”
• No infringement was intended

8. Educational and Informational Use

Some FreeWishes material is presented for:

• Educational
• Informational
• Cultural
• Historical
• Commentary
• Reference
• Creative purposes

However, stating that material is educational or informational does not automatically create a copyright exception.

Where copyrighted material is used under an applicable exception, we aim to limit that use to what is reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose.

9. Fair Dealing in India

Where Indian copyright law applies, FreeWishes may rely on applicable statutory exceptions, including fair-dealing provisions where legally appropriate.

Possible permitted purposes may include:

• Research
• Private study
• Criticism
• Review
• Reporting of current events
• Other circumstances expressly permitted by law

Whether a particular use qualifies depends on the specific facts.

FreeWishes does not claim that every quotation or third-party work on the site automatically qualifies as fair dealing.

10. Fair Use in the United States

Where United States copyright law applies, certain uses may potentially qualify as fair use.

Fair-use analysis generally depends on factors such as:

• Purpose and character of the use
• Nature of the copyrighted work
• Amount and substantiality used
• Effect on the potential market for the original work

No single factor automatically determines the outcome.

FreeWishes therefore evaluates relevant material contextually rather than relying on a general “fair use” disclaimer.

11. European Quotation and Copyright Exceptions

Where European copyright law applies, quotations or other limited uses may be permitted only where relevant legal conditions are satisfied.

Depending on the applicable jurisdiction, considerations may include:

• Whether the source material was lawfully made available
• Whether the author or source is identified where reasonably possible
• Whether the use follows fair practice
• Whether the amount used is justified by the specific purpose
• Whether national implementation permits the particular use

FreeWishes may modify or remove material where appropriate.

12. Short Phrases and Common Expressions

Some short phrases, titles, names, slogans or commonplace expressions may not receive copyright protection in certain jurisdictions.

However, other legal rights may still apply, including:

• Trademark rights
• Passing-off rights
• Personality rights
• Unfair-competition rights
• Contractual rights

FreeWishes therefore does not assume that every short phrase is automatically unrestricted.

13. Poetry, Song Lyrics and Literary Works

FreeWishes takes particular care with:

• Poems
• Song lyrics
• Book excerpts
• Speeches
• Literary passages
• Scripts
• Movie dialogue

These materials may remain protected by copyright even when widely available online.

FreeWishes does not intend to reproduce substantial copyrighted literary, musical or dramatic works without appropriate legal basis.

Where such material is identified, we may:

• Remove it
• Shorten it
• Replace it
• Provide attribution
• Link to an authorised source
• Seek permission
• Take other appropriate action

14. Images, Illustrations and Artwork

Images appearing on FreeWishes may include:

• Original FreeWishes artwork
• Licensed images
• Public-domain images
• Generated images
• User-supplied images
• Other lawfully used material

FreeWishes does not intentionally claim ownership of third-party images merely because they appear on the website.

If you believe an image infringes your rights, please submit a removal request.

15. AI-Generated and AI-Assisted Content

FreeWishes may use artificial intelligence or automated tools to:

• Generate wishes
• Suggest messages
• Assist with editing
• Generate or refine images
• Support search
• Assist with content categorisation
• Support editorial workflows

AI-assisted content may be reviewed, edited or curated before publication.

FreeWishes does not guarantee that AI-generated content will always be:

• Unique
• Error-free
• Free from similarity to existing material
• Correctly attributed
• Suitable for every use

If an AI-assisted output raises a legitimate copyright or attribution concern, please report it.

Our use of AI is further explained in our AI Content Policy.

16. User-Submitted Content

Where users are allowed to submit:

• Messages
• Images
• Prompts
• Feedback
• Comments
• Creative material
• Other content

users must ensure that they have the necessary rights to submit that material.

Users must not knowingly submit material that infringes:

• Copyright
• Trademark
• Privacy
• Publicity rights
• Other intellectual-property rights
• Other legal rights

FreeWishes may remove user-submitted material where appropriate.

17. Licence for User-Submitted Content

Where you submit content for FreeWishes to process or display, you grant FreeWishes only the rights reasonably necessary to:

• Provide the requested feature
• Store the content where requested
• Display or process the content as part of the service
• Provide technical support
• Maintain security
• Comply with legal obligations

This does not automatically transfer ownership of your original work to FreeWishes.

Additional terms may apply where content is expressly submitted for public publication.

18. Trademarks

Names, logos, brands and trademarks belonging to third parties remain the property of their respective owners.

Reference to a third-party trademark does not necessarily imply:

• Sponsorship
• Partnership
• Endorsement
• Affiliation

FreeWishes trademarks, branding and original brand assets may not be used in a misleading or unauthorised manner.

19. Rights of Publicity and Personality Rights

Use of a person's:

• Name
• Image
• Likeness
• Voice
• Identity
• Biographical information

may be subject to privacy, publicity, personality or other legal rights.

FreeWishes may remove or modify material where a legitimate rights concern is established.

20. Content Removal Requests

If you believe content on FreeWishes infringes your copyright or other rights, you may submit a Content Removal Request.

Please provide:

• Your full name
• Your email address
• The FreeWishes URL containing the disputed material
• Identification of the content concerned
• Explanation of your rights
• Explanation of why you believe the content infringes those rights
• Supporting documentation where available
• A link to the original or authorised work where relevant

Send requests through our designated reporting mechanism or to: [email protected]

21. Copyright Complaint Declaration

Where your request concerns copyright infringement, we may ask you to confirm that:

• You have a good-faith belief that the disputed use has not been authorised by the copyright owner, its representative or applicable law.
• The information in your request is accurate.
• You are the rights holder or are authorised to act on behalf of the rights holder.

Please do not submit knowingly false or misleading claims.

22. Review of Removal Requests

When we receive a sufficiently detailed complaint, FreeWishes may:

• Review the reported material
• Check available source information
• Request additional information
• Temporarily restrict content where appropriate
• Correct attribution
• Modify content
• Remove content
• Reject unsupported claims
• Take other appropriate action

We aim to handle legitimate requests reasonably and in good faith.

23. Removal Is Not Automatic

Submitting a complaint does not automatically require FreeWishes to remove content.

A request may be declined where:

• The requester cannot identify the material
• The claim is unsupported
• The material is licensed
• The material is public domain
• Applicable law permits the use
• The requester does not appear authorised
• The claim is fraudulent
• Other lawful grounds support continued publication

We may nevertheless remove content voluntarily where doing so is reasonable.

24. Corrections Instead of Removal

In some situations, the appropriate response may be to:

• Correct attribution
• Add attribution
• Correct factual information
• Modify wording
• Replace an image
• Add context
• Reduce the amount used
• Link to an original source

rather than remove the entire page.

25. Repeat Infringement

Where applicable, FreeWishes may restrict or terminate accounts or contributors that repeatedly submit infringing material.

We may also block repeated abusive submissions or misuse of our services.

26. Counter-Notifications

Where applicable law provides a formal counter-notification process, a person whose material was removed may be able to dispute the removal.

FreeWishes may request information necessary to evaluate such a response.

Any applicable statutory process will be handled according to the law governing the specific complaint.

27. U.S. Copyright Complaints

For claims subject to United States copyright law, FreeWishes may process qualifying copyright notices consistent with applicable notice-and-takedown principles.

A copyright complaint should identify:

• The copyrighted work
• The allegedly infringing material
• Its location on FreeWishes
• Contact information
• A good-faith statement
• A statement regarding the accuracy and authority of the claimant
• An appropriate signature where required

Nothing in this section represents that a particular statutory safe harbour automatically applies to FreeWishes.

28. Indian Copyright Complaints

Where Indian law applies, FreeWishes may evaluate claims according to applicable provisions of:

• The Copyright Act, 1957
• Applicable amendments
• Relevant rules
• Court orders
• Other binding legal requirements

Rights holders may report suspected infringement through our removal process.

29. International Copyright Complaints

Copyright laws vary internationally.

Where a complaint concerns another jurisdiction, FreeWishes may consider:

• Location of the claimant
• Location of the rights
• Location of the service
• Applicable copyright law
• International copyright treaties
• Applicable legal exceptions
• Other relevant circumstances

We may seek additional information where necessary.

30. False or Abusive Complaints

You must not knowingly submit:

• False claims
• Fraudulent ownership assertions
• Fabricated evidence
• Misleading copyright notices
• Requests intended to censor lawful criticism
• Harassing or abusive reports

FreeWishes may reject such requests and preserve relevant information where necessary to protect legal rights.

31. Moral Rights

Certain jurisdictions recognise moral rights such as:

• Right of attribution
• Right of integrity
• Rights against prejudicial modification

Where applicable, FreeWishes will consider legitimate moral-rights concerns submitted through our reporting process.

32. Database and Compilation Rights

The selection, organisation, taxonomy, presentation or compilation of FreeWishes content may itself be protected by copyright, database rights or other laws.

Users may not copy or extract substantial portions of FreeWishes databases or collections without permission where prohibited by law.

33. Scraping and Bulk Republishing

FreeWishes content must not be systematically scraped, harvested or republished at scale without authorisation where such activity violates our Terms or applicable law.

This includes using FreeWishes to create:

• Competing wish databases
• Quote databases
• Greeting libraries
• Commercial datasets
• AI training datasets
• Bulk content websites

without an appropriate lawful basis or permission.

Standard search-engine crawling permitted by our technical directives is not prohibited.

34. AI Training and Automated Extraction

Access to publicly available FreeWishes pages does not automatically grant permission to:

• Build commercial datasets
• Train models using substantial amounts of protected FreeWishes content
• Reproduce FreeWishes databases
• Circumvent technical restrictions

Any such use must comply with applicable law, our Terms and relevant rights.

35. Search Engines and Indexing

FreeWishes may permit legitimate search engines and discovery services to index publicly accessible pages according to our:

• Robots directives
• Metadata
• Technical configuration

Permission to index does not transfer ownership of the content.

36. Linking to FreeWishes

You may generally link to public FreeWishes pages provided that the link:

• Is lawful
• Does not misrepresent affiliation
• Does not falsely imply endorsement
• Does not frame or reproduce the website in a misleading manner

37. Personal Sharing of Wishes and Greetings

FreeWishes is designed to allow users to copy or share individual wishes, greetings and similar content for ordinary personal communication.

For example, users may generally share an individual FreeWishes wish through:

• WhatsApp
• Email
• Social media
• Messaging apps
• Greeting cards
• Personal communications

This permission does not include bulk republication of FreeWishes libraries or databases.

38. Commercial Republishing

Commercial publication, resale or redistribution of substantial FreeWishes content may require prior written permission.

Examples may include:

• Books
• Paid databases
• Competing websites
• Commercial mobile applications
• Bulk content feeds
• Subscription libraries

Contact: [email protected]

for licensing or permission enquiries.

39. Content Accuracy

FreeWishes aims to maintain useful and reasonably accurate information.

However, we do not guarantee that all:

• Attributions
• Historical details
• Dates
• Cultural information
• Names
• Translations
• Editorial content

will always be error-free.

Corrections are welcome.

40. Attribution Corrections

If you believe:

• Your work is incorrectly attributed
• Someone else's work is attributed to you
• A quote has the wrong author
• A source has been omitted

please provide available supporting evidence.

Where warranted, we may correct or remove the attribution.

41. Content Ownership Questions

If you are unsure whether material on FreeWishes belongs to you or your organisation, you may contact us before submitting a formal complaint.

We may be able to resolve straightforward attribution or source issues without a formal takedown process.

42. Advertisements and Copyright

Advertisements displayed through services such as Google AdSense may contain third-party:

• Text
• Images
• Trademarks
• Videos
• Other creative material

Such advertising content is generally provided or controlled by the relevant advertiser or advertising network.

FreeWishes does not claim ownership of advertising creative belonging to third parties.

Concerns about advertisements may also be reported to the relevant advertising provider.

43. Editorial Independence

Advertising relationships do not grant advertisers ownership or editorial control over FreeWishes content.

Sponsored or paid material directly arranged by FreeWishes should be identified appropriately where required.

44. Disclaimer Regarding Third-Party Rights

References to third-party:

• Brands
• Authors
• Public figures
• Works
• Organisations
• Events

are for identification, commentary, information or other lawful purposes.

Such references do not necessarily imply endorsement, sponsorship or affiliation.

45. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Copyright & Content Policy to reflect:

• Changes in law
• Changes in FreeWishes content practices
• New features
• New AI technologies
• New publishing processes
• Legal or regulatory guidance

The “Last Updated” date will be revised accordingly.

46. Related Policies

This Policy should be read together with:

• Terms of Use
• Privacy Policy
• Cookie Policy
• Editorial Policy
• AI Content Policy
• Disclaimer
• Content Removal Policy

Where a concern relates primarily to personal information, our Privacy Policy also applies.

47. Contact

For copyright, attribution, content ownership or removal concerns: FreeWishes, Managed by Dotdunia Technologies, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Website: freewishes.in, Email: [email protected]

Please include the relevant FreeWishes URL and enough information for us to understand and review your concern.