Copyright and DMCA

Last updated: September 2026

Garage Chronicle is a registered assumed name of Nave and Sons, LLC, a Michigan limited liability company. Almost everything on this site was uploaded by the person who owns the car. We don’t review it before it’s published, and occasionally somebody posts a photograph they didn’t take.

If that photograph is yours, this page tells you how to have it removed. It also tells you what to do if something of yours was taken down and you believe it shouldn’t have been.

Reporting material that infringes your copyright

Send a written notice to our designated agent, below. To be effective under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, it has to include all of the following:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed — or, if several works on this site are covered by one notice, a representative list of them.
3. Identification of the material you want removed, with enough detail for us to find it. A direct link to the car page and a description of which photograph is the fastest way.
4. Your address, telephone number and email address.
5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and — under penalty of perjury — that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act on their behalf.

We act on complete notices promptly, usually by removing or disabling the material and telling the person who posted it what was removed and why.

A notice is a legal document. Misrepresenting that material is infringing can make you liable for damages, including costs and legal fees, under 17 U.S.C. §512(f). If you aren’t sure whether something is infringing, talk to a lawyer before sending one.

Designated agent

Copyright Agent, Nave and Sons, LLC
2222 W. Grand River Ave, Ste A
Okemos, MI 48864
Telephone: (517) 418-7352
Email: dmca@garagechronicle.com
Also accepted at editor@garagechronicle.com

Filed with the U.S. Copyright Office Directory of Designated Agents, registration number DMCA-1080175. The directory is searchable at dmca.copyright.gov.

If your material was removed

If we removed something you posted and you believe it was a mistake — it was your own photograph, or the use was permitted — you can send a counter-notice to the same address. It needs:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of what was removed, and where it appeared before it was removed.
3. A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief it was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
4. Your name, address and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for your address — or, if you are outside the United States, for any district in which we may be found — and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice.

We’ll forward a valid counter-notice to whoever complained. If they don’t file a court action within ten to fourteen business days, we may restore the material.

Repeat infringers

We keep a record of notices we act on. Accounts that repeatedly post material infringing other people’s copyright have their access terminated. This isn’t a formality — a registry of car histories only works if the records in it belong to the people who published them.

What we ask of you when you post

Upload photographs you took, or that you have permission to use. Magazine scans, dealer photography and pictures taken by a professional at a show are usually somebody else’s work, even when the car in them is yours. If you want a photograph you didn’t take on your car’s page, ask the photographer — most will say yes to an owner, and a credit costs nothing.

The same applies to anything recovered from an archive of a site that has closed down. Your own words and your own photographs are yours to bring with you. Other people’s are not.