Copyright & DMCA
1. Copyright notice
The written content of A Cup of Crime — its reviews, verdicts, rankings, profiles and page text — is © 2026 David O’Connell. All rights reserved. The Site’s name, logo and design are the editor’s own and may not be copied.
You may share short quotes with a link back to the page; you may not reproduce, scrape or republish the Site’s writing wholesale without written permission (see the Terms of Service).
2. The imagery the Site shows belongs to others
The Site reviews television programmes and the actors who appear in them. So that readers can see what is being written about, review pages may display small promotional stills and title artwork. Those images — and the programme titles, character names and likenesses they belong to — are the property of their respective rights holders: the broadcasters, studios, producers and photographers who made the programmes.
The Site shows this imagery for the purpose of criticism and review, which is a fair-use purpose under UK and U.S. copyright law and the reason each review page carries the footer line “fair-use review & commentary.” The Site does not claim to own these images, does not sell them, and it exists to encourage people to watch the programmes they illustrate — not to compete with them.
3. The Site hosts no user uploads
Because A Cup of Crime is a static review site with no user accounts, comment uploads or file hosting, the notice-and-takedown machinery of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that protects platforms hosting user-submitted content is not, in practice, what governs the Site. There is no stream of third-party uploads for a takedown system to police. That does not change the Site’s respect for copyright, and it takes removal requests about its own displayed imagery seriously.
4. How a rights holder can ask for removal
If you own or represent the rights to an image or content displayed on the Site and believe its use is not legitimate fair-use commentary, the Site will act. David O’Connell will review the specific material and remove or alter it promptly if the use is not defensible.
To make a request, email with the following so the material can be identified and the request verified:
- The specific page URL (or URLs) on acupofcrime.com.
- A description of the image or content you believe is used without permission.
- Confirmation that you own the relevant rights or are authorised to act for the rights holder.
- Your name and a way to reach you.
Send requests to:
David O’Connell
A Cup of Crime
Email: admin@acupofcrime.com
Subject line: “Copyright request”
5. What happens next
The Site treats legitimate removal requests seriously and responds promptly. Where the use genuinely is fair-use criticism — a still used to illustrate a programme being reviewed — the Site may instead add clearer attribution or adjust the use rather than remove it wholesale. Either way, the point of the exchange is to respect rights while keeping genuine criticism and review alive, and the Site will engage openly with any rights holder who contacts it in good faith.
6. Contact
David O’Connell
A Cup of Crime
Email: admin@acupofcrime.com
Phone: (631) 956 4581