Divinity Atlas
What Divinity Atlas holds copyright in, what an organization attests to when it uploads material, how to report a rights concern, and what happens when we receive one.
Last updated 16 August 2026. Divinity Atlas is operated by an individual; contact details are on the contact page.
What the Atlas Holds Copyright In
The atlas's own written entries, articles, correspondence data, code and visual design belong to Divinity Atlas and its licensors, the same statement the Ownership and Copyright section of the Terms makes. That covers the encyclopedia itself: what we write, compile and publish about a tradition. It does not cover material an organization publishes on its own page, which the organization holds the rights to, not us.
Organization Uploads and the Terms Organizations Accept
Religious organizations that claim or apply for a page on the atlas publish under the Organization Terms, which every organization accepts when it claims a page or applies for one. Those terms state plainly that an organization publishing or uploading material, a book, a page, an announcement, anything else, attests that it holds the rights to that material, or has the right to publish it, and that publishing it does not infringe anyone else's rights. A book upload carries this attestation explicitly; every other upload carries it by the act of publishing. See the Organization Terms for the full text.
Reporting a Rights Concern
Two ways to tell us: on the book itself, or through the contact page.
If you believe something published on this site infringes your rights, you can report it two ways. On an uploaded book's own page, below the reader, a disclosure titled Report A Rights Concern opens a short form asking for your name, your email address, and a description of the concern. Anyone can use it, signed in or not. Where that disclosure is not available, or your concern is about something other than an uploaded book, use the contact page and describe what you believe infringes your rights, where it appears, and what you hold the rights to.
What Happens When We Receive a Report
A person reviews it. The material may come down. The decision is recorded.
Every report is read by a person, not resolved automatically. We look at what was reported, where it appears, and what the reporter says they hold rights to. If the concern is credible, the material can be taken down; the uploading organization is not consulted before that decision, only notified after it, matching how the Organization Terms describe suspension and removal. If we conclude the material does not infringe anyone's rights, we leave it published and record why. Either way, the decision, its reasoning and the date are kept.
For an uploaded book, this happens through the book's own review queue: a report opens a review item, and a site administrator accepts it, which retires the book without deleting the underlying file, or rejects it with a written reason, leaving the book as it was. Both outcomes are recorded, and the person who filed the report is told the outcome. For anything else reported through the contact page, the same review and recording happens by hand.
What This Is Not
This is not a formal government registration, and we do not claim to be a registered copyright agent with any copyright office. It describes the process this site actually runs: how a report reaches a person, and what that person does with it. If a dispute over rights cannot be resolved this way, the Governing Law and Disputes section of the Terms applies.