Dear Huggingface,
Signature: I write on behalf of Canva Germany GmbH (doing business as Pexels) as their legal representative. My signature is below.
Identification of Infringing Material: We’ve identified that copyright content from pexels.com is being infringed by content available on the Hugging Face service. The infringing material is contained in the repository located at https://huggingface.co/datasets/hpcai-tech/open-sora-pexels-45k. The takedown request is for the entire dataset.
According to the readme for the dataset, "This dataset contains 45k high-quality videos from Pexels. The videos are filtered out from about 400K videos based on different kinds of scores." In short, the content of this repository is, by the uploader's admission, a large portion of the Pexels website, copied in bulk and reproduced here.
Identification of Copyrighted Work: The copyrighted works are available at Pexels.com.
I note that while some Pexels content is CC0 licensed, scraping and extraction from the Pexels' database is expressly prohibited by our Terms of Use. These terms state that "Data mining, extraction, scraping and the use of programs or robots for automatic data collection and/or extraction of digital data on the Service and/or the content available therein is strictly prohibited for all unauthorised purposes, including without limitation for machine learning purposes" and that "Bulk, large-scale or systematic copying of Content is strictly prohibited unless explicit permission has been granted by us." To be clear, Pexels has not granted permission for this copying.
Moreover, while some of the individual images may be subject to CC0 licenses, the copyright in the compilation of work as represented on the Pexels website and reproduced without permission in this dataset rests with Pexels.
Statement of Good Faith: I have a good faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorised by Canva, its agent or the law. I have taken fair use into consideration.
Statement of Accuracy: I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in this notification is accurate and that I am authorized to act on behalf of the owner, Canva, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
In view of the above, we respectfully request that you remove the infringing data at https://huggingface.co/datasets/hpcai-tech/open-sora-pexels-45k from your repository immediately. If you require any further clarification or information I would be happy to provide that.
Yours sincerely,