Has Clean Your Dirty Face registered its copyrights with the United States Registrar of Copyrights?
Clean_Your_Dirty_Face Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
We and/or our affiliates claim copyrights in the Operations Manual (which contains our trade secrets), handbooks, all Franchise System Websites, advertising and marketing materials, all or part of the Marks, and other portions of the Franchise System and other similar materials used in operating CYDF Facial Bars. We have not registered these copyrights with the United States Registrar of Copyrights but need not do so at this time to protect them. You may use these items only as we specify while operating your CYDF Facial Bar (and must stop using them if we so direct you).
There currently are no effective adverse determinations of the United States Copyright Office (Library of Congress) or any court regarding the copyrighted materials. No agreement limits our right to use or allow others to use the Confidential Information (defined below) or copyrighted materials. We know of no infringing uses of our copyrights which could materially affect your using the copyrighted materials in any state. We need not protect or defend our copyrights, although we intend to do so if we determine that it is in the Franchise System's best interests. We may control any action involving the copyrights, even if you voluntarily bring the matter to our attention. We neither need to participate in your defense nor indemnify you for damages or expenses in a proceeding involving a copyright.
Source: Item 14 — PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS AND PROPRIETARY INFORMATION (FDD pages 42–43)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to the 2025 Clean Your Dirty Face Franchise Disclosure Document, Clean Your Dirty Face has not registered its copyrights with the United States Registrar of Copyrights. However, Clean Your Dirty Face claims copyrights in its Operations Manual, handbooks, Franchise System Websites, advertising and marketing materials, all or part of the Marks, and other portions of the Franchise System and similar materials used in operating CYDF Facial Bars. Clean Your Dirty Face states that it does not need to register these copyrights at this time to protect them.
As a Clean Your Dirty Face franchisee, you are permitted to use these copyrighted items only as specified by Clean Your Dirty Face while operating your CYDF Facial Bar, and you must stop using them if directed to do so. The FDD states that there are currently no effective adverse determinations of the United States Copyright Office or any court regarding the copyrighted materials, and no agreement limits Clean Your Dirty Face's right to use or allow others to use the Confidential Information or copyrighted materials.
Clean Your Dirty Face states that it knows of no infringing uses of its copyrights that could materially affect a franchisee's use of the copyrighted materials. While Clean Your Dirty Face is not obligated to protect or defend its copyrights, it intends to do so if it determines that it is in the Franchise System's best interests. Clean Your Dirty Face retains control over any action involving the copyrights, even if a franchisee brings the matter to its attention, and Clean Your Dirty Face is not required to participate in a franchisee's defense or indemnify them for damages or expenses in a copyright-related proceeding.