Reddit is a common place for copyrighted work to be reposted: videos, images, and paywalled content all end up in subreddits, sometimes in communities built around a single person. The upside is that Reddit is a real company that relies on legal safe harbor, so it runs a dedicated copyright form and acts reliably on valid complaints.
Use Reddit’s intellectual property form
Everything goes through one page: Reddit’s intellectual property request form.
Open it, and under What do you need assistance with? choose Intellectual property requests.
Then, under What type of Intellectual Property Request do you need assistance with?, choose Copyright Infringement / DMCA.
The rest of the form is straightforward. You provide your email address, a subject line, and the details of your complaint. In the details, identify your copyrighted work, list the exact Reddit links where the infringing copies appear (the post or comment URLs, not just a subreddit name), and state that you own the rights and that the use is not authorized. You can attach supporting files if you have them, though that is optional. If you want help wording the description and the ownership statement, our DMCA notice generator produces that language for you to adapt into the form.
Be precise with the links. A complaint that points at a specific post gives Reddit something to act on, while one that points at a whole community gives it room to stall.
What happens after you submit
Once you send the form, Reddit follows up by email. You will receive a message confirming that the content has been removed, rejecting the claim, or asking for more information. If they ask for more, respond promptly with what they need, since a quick reply keeps the request moving.
That is the whole process. Reddit is one of the more responsive platforms for copyright, so a single, precise submission is usually enough. If your work is being shared on other platforms too, the approach is similar everywhere: identify the work, point to the exact links, and send it to the platform’s copyright channel. Our guides to Telegram and VK cover those, and the explainer on what the DMCA is covers why these notices work.