Venomline Copyright & IP Protection Policy (2026)
Ownership Policy - Digital Chain of Custody - Platform Abuse Evidence
Venomline Copyright & Intellectual Property Protection Policy
Public policy and preservation record confirming ownership of Texas Size Bullies and Venomline content, publication precedence, enforcement outcomes, Search Console visibility damage, Google Business Profile review-manipulation concerns, Meta platform-abuse evidence, harassment/interference exhibits, litigation context, and evidence-retention standards.
Executive Summary
Master Legal-Review Summary
Venomline Bullies / Texas Size Bullies, owned by Matt Siebenthal, preserves this master page as the public-facing summary of a multi-year digital chain-of-custody record involving original authorship, alleged content replication, platform-abuse reporting, Google Business Profile manipulation concerns, search-visibility damage, harassment communications, client-interference evidence, and enforcement outcomes tied to Southeast Bully Kennels (SEBK) and James Oxendine.
This page is built to separate verified records, preserved screenshots, platform-verifiable allegations, and requests for independent review. It is designed for review by counsel, platform Trust & Safety teams, search-quality teams, copyright teams, and business-listing integrity teams.
Evidence Standard
Legal-Review Classification
To make the record precise, every major issue below is classified by the strength of the source record. This prevents unsupported overstatement while preserving the full factual pattern for legal review.
| Classification | Meaning | Examples in This Record |
|---|---|---|
| Verified public record | Can be independently checked from public sources or official platform policy. | Federal docket context; Google Business Profile policy prohibiting PO box addresses. |
| Preserved screenshot / owner record | Evidence preserved by Venomline and available for review, but requiring platform logs or original files for final authentication. | Google Search Console drop, Meta page-at-risk screenshots, review screenshots, text messages, Ahrefs backlink-spam screenshots. |
| Platform-verifiable allegation | Requires Google, Meta, Medium, Pinterest, host, registrar, or search-engine logs to confirm identity, timing, and account linkage. | False reports, review velocity manipulation, IP clustering, claimant pattern, report timing, account-linkage review. |
| Legal conclusion reserved | Final legal liability must be determined by counsel, platform adjudication, or a court. | DMCA misrepresentation, tortious interference, harassment, deceptive trade practice, unfair competition. |
Section I
Chain of Title & Authoritative Origin
I, Matt Siebenthal, am the original creator and custodian of the intellectual property now operated under the Venomline brand. This IP includes educational articles, health policies, stud-service protocols, breeding logistics, brand language, media, and operational materials first published through Texas Size Bullies and later consolidated into Venomline.
Authoritative Origin Sources
- Texas Size Bullies WordPress - primary legacy content host.
- WordPress Archive Index - timestamped archive layer.
- Texas Size Bullies .com Archive - legacy domain archive index.
Protected Asset Categories
- Health guarantee language and breeding protocols.
- Stud-service logistics, shipping workflow, and client guidance.
- American Bully educational articles and glossary-style content.
- Photos, videos, screenshots, personal likeness, and brand graphics.
- Brand slogans, narrative identity, page structures, and proprietary writing style.
Section II
Official Authorship Repositories & Ownership Signals
Venomline preserves authorship continuity across first-party publishing, independent media, magazine distribution, app-based publishing, and book-reference platforms. These records reinforce temporal precedence and editorial control.
Section II-C — Unauthorized Use of Personal Likeness & Family Photography
Venomline has preserved evidence showing that a personal Facebook profile photograph depicting Matt Siebenthal and his wife, along with Venomline-owned dog photography, appeared on the Southeast Bully Kennels website without authorization.
Exhibit PL-01 — Third-Party Website Publication
Preserved screenshot of the Southeast Bully Kennels website displaying Matt Siebenthal’s personal Facebook profile image, family photograph, and Venomline-owned dog imagery.
Exhibit PL-02 — Personal Profile Capture
Preserved screenshot showing the personal profile context associated with the reproduced family photograph. Personal identifiers may be redacted where appropriate.
Exhibit PL-03 — Original Venomline-Owned Photograph
Original Venomline-owned photograph preserved for comparison, authorship, chain-of-custody, and image-provenance review.
Section III
Google Search Console Visibility-Damage Exhibit
Venomline preserves Google Search Console screenshots showing a sharp and sustained organic-search visibility discontinuity for https://venomlinebullies.com/ during the documented SEBK targeting and reporting-abuse period. These screenshots are preserved as a damages and causation-review exhibit.
Observed Before / After Pattern
- Before the drop, daily clicks are visibly clustered around approximately 160-240 clicks/day.
- A cliff-like drop appears around mid-November 2024, after which daily clicks are visibly reduced to approximately 40-80 clicks/day.
- Impressions similarly collapse from high-thousands / low-five-figure daily range into a much lower baseline.
- The reduced level persists through the visible 3-month reporting window, supporting a sustained visibility-damage exhibit.
Legal-Review Use
- Preserved as evidence of measurable search visibility harm.
- Correlated with the alleged targeting period, but final causation requires Google, host, Search Console, security, and reporting logs.
- Relevant to damages, business interruption, search suppression, and reporting-abuse review.
- Should be paired with disavow records, toxic-link exports, DMCA notices, and enforcement timestamps.
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Section IV
Google Business Profile: Review Manipulation & Address Eligibility Exhibit
Venomline preserves evidence and a separate Google Business Profile complaint packet concerning alleged coordinated inauthentic engagement, review padding, review suppression, and deceptive business-location representation tied to the Southeast Bully Kennels listing.
Review-Pattern Evidence
- Preserved complaint states the listing repeatedly received concentrated bursts of 5-star reviews within 24-48 hours after negative consumer reviews.
- Complaint identifies low-trust reviewer indicators such as 0-1 prior reviews, no media, and limited local history.
- Screenshot set preserves a visible transition from a listing with 4.6 stars / 130 reviews to a later display showing no ratings or reviews, indicating review purge, removal, or display suppression requiring Google verification.
- Requested review: IP clustering analysis, account-linkage review, and velocity anomaly detection.
Address Eligibility Evidence
- Complaint identifies 100 Waxhaw Pkwy Unit 1302, Waxhaw, NC as corresponding to a United States Postal Service location.
- The complaint states "Unit 1302" is a PO box / postal-unit style address, not a customer-accessible kennel location.
- Google Business Profile policy states businesses with PO box addresses are not permitted and can be suspended.
- Requested review: listing eligibility verification, address audit, and manual Trust & Safety review.
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Section V
Meta / Facebook Platform-Abuse Exhibit
Venomline preserves a formal Meta escalation packet alleging platform abuse, harassment, bad-faith reporting, false copyright claims, cross-platform report timing, account-standing damage, revenue harm, and customer-relationship interference.
Preserved Meta Harm Categories
- Loss or risk of monetization and revenue.
- Removal of legitimate sales and breeding content.
- Suppression of account visibility and page standing.
- Interference with customer relationships.
- Reputational harm caused by repeated false claims.
Requested Meta Action
- Manual review of enforcement actions tied to the reporting party.
- Restoration of content or account features removed through false reports.
- Investigation into repeat abuse of Meta reporting systems.
- Safeguards preventing further automated actions initiated by the same party or linked entities.
- High-risk / repeat bad-faith claimant flagging if supported by internal logs.
Redacted Communications Evidence
Venomline has preserved several unsolicited communications that it characterizes as threatening, harassing, reputation-damaging, or intended to interfere with platform standing and business relationships.
Exhibit H-01: Preserved communication referencing potential legal, financial, reputational, review-related, or platform-related pressure. Names, telephone numbers, account details, and message contents are withheld from the public version.
Exhibit H-02: Preserved communication allegedly discussing continued public accusations, online dissemination, reporting activity, or reputational targeting. The complete exhibit is maintained offline.
Exhibit H-03: Preserved third-party communication concerning Venomline, its clients, breeding relationships, or business reputation. Private-party identities and verbatim statements are not published here.
Section VI
Federal Litigation Context: Oxendine v. Blockline Bullies LLC
Venomline preserves the public docket and judgment context from Oxendine v. Blockline Bullies L L C et al, Case No. 2:24-cv-00740, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, as relevant background to the pattern of trademark overreach and competitor-targeting allegations.
| Record Point | Public Record Summary | Legal-Review Relevance |
|---|---|---|
| Case filing | Public docket identifies the case as filed May 31, 2024 by James Oxendine doing business as Southeast Bully Kennels against Blockline Bullies LLC and Steven Coker. | Shows direct competitor trademark litigation involving the American Bully industry. |
| Claimed mark | The dispute concerned alleged trademark rights in the phrase "Block Bloodline." | Relevant to Venomline's stated concern about generic-term trademark overreach. |
| Judgment outcome | Public judgment records state defendants' summary judgment motion was granted, the "Block Bloodline" trademark was terminated, injunction relief was denied, and the case was dismissed with prejudice. | Relevant context for platform teams evaluating repeated claims of exclusive rights and competitor-targeting reports. |
| Use in this page | This page cites the case as background context only. | Venomline does not claim that the Blockline judgment adjudicates every issue in this separate SEBK/Venomline record. |
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Section VII
Summary of the Forensic Evidence Matrix
The multi-year digital chain of custody compiled during this investigation provides a structural blueprint of the dispute. The following matrix summarizes the preserved comparison between the authentic Venomline / Texas Size Bullies timeline and the later documented SEBK pattern alleged in the forensic record.
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Section VIII
Harassment, Reputation Attacks & Review Abuse Evidence
Venomline preserves communications and review-related activity it characterizes as harassment, reputational targeting, and business disruption. The public version summarizes the conduct while preserving raw screenshots, timestamps, phone numbers, and reviewer identifiers offline for counsel and platform review.
Text-Message Evidence Categories
- Anonymous or unverified number communications calling Venomline a fraud / con man and threatening public posting.
- Messages referencing lawsuits, expenses, customer pressure, and future online attacks.
- Communications referencing potential reporting activity or adverse platform-account consequences.
- Communications referencing possible public dissemination through social-media or video platforms.
Review-Attack Evidence Categories
- One-star reviews by low-history profiles using similar narrative language.
- Repeated "dog broker" and "fraud" wording appearing across reviews and messages.
- Review screenshots showing little or no reviewer history.
- Venomline preserves these items for Google, counsel, and civil-damages review.
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Section IX
Client Interference, Reputation Targeting & Transactional Disruption
Venomline has preserved materials it characterizes as interference with existing or prospective business relationships, including direct or indirect contact with clients, disparaging claims, attempts to redirect trust away from Venomline, and efforts to damage platform account standing.
Interference Indicators Preserved
- Competitor-themed messages to or involving customers and prospects.
- References to Venomline sales, stud fees, customer trust, and future business harm.
- Statements intended to undermine Venomline's credibility in the American Bully community.
- Report-flow screenshots and threats to trigger platform restrictions.
Search / Domain Targeting Indicators
- Ahrefs screenshots preserving spam-labeled referring domains and sudden domain-growth patterns.
- Evidence of search visibility damage after a sharp mid-November 2024 Search Console drop.
- Preserved concerns about repurposed or networked sites amplifying adverse narratives.
- Disavow-related communications confirming toxic links were found and disavowed using Search Console.
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Section X
Verbatim Replication, Structural Mirroring & Fingerprint Evidence
Venomline treats copying, paraphrase replication, structural mirroring, metadata reuse, and derivative text spinning as enforceable IP issues where the same topic sequence, unusual phrasing, typos, alt-tags, and page scaffolding appear after Venomline's earlier publication history.
| Forensic Indicator | Why It Matters | Preserved Review Point |
|---|---|---|
| Exact phrase continuity | Unique text carried from earlier Venomline / TSB materials to later third-party pages can show copying beyond common industry language. | Stud-service and health-guarantee wording; veterinary-process language. |
| Structural redline match | Same order, headings, section logic, and page flow can indicate copying even if words are changed. | Reported 94% structural match in preserved redline materials. |
| Typographical fingerprints | Unusual spelling errors are strong signals when replicated. | Preserved anomaly: "Bordetilla" and other matching typos. |
| Alt-tag / source-code residue | Metadata and image labels can preserve author identity or copy-source residue. | Forensic packet references copied source-code and alt-tag indicators. |
| Purge / de-index after enforcement | Removal after notice can corroborate that challenged assets had enforcement significance. | Purged assets and de-indexed URLs listed below. |
Section XI
Purged Assets, De-Indexed Assets & Enforcement Outcomes
Venomline preserves the following enforcement outcomes as part of its legal-review record. Removal or de-indexing does not itself adjudicate liability, but it is relevant to enforcement history, platform response, and evidentiary preservation.
| Asset / URL Pattern | Status | Forensic Basis | Review Note |
|---|---|---|---|
/breeding-pairs/ |
Purged | Metadata / content match | Preserved in prior enforcement log. |
/bully-studs/ |
Purged | Metadata / content match | Preserved in prior enforcement log. |
/pocket-bully-for-sale/ |
Purged | Content-theft allegation | Preserved in forensic log. |
/micro-bully-for-sale/ |
Purged | Content-theft allegation | Preserved in forensic log. |
/health-guarantee/ |
Not In Index | Search removal / index status | Preserved as verified de-index evidence. |
/understanding-the-unique-temperament... |
Not In Index | Search removal / index status | Preserved as verified de-index evidence. |
/blog/ |
Not In Index | Search removal / index status | Preserved as verified de-index evidence. |
Section XII
Urgent Request to Platform Trust & Safety Teams
Venomline requests manual high-priority review by Meta/Facebook, Google Search Quality, Google Business Profile Trust & Safety, Pinterest, Medium, hosting providers, search engines, and other relevant platforms. Automated review is insufficient where the same reporting party or linked entities are alleged to have engaged in repeat bad-faith reporting.
Requested Actions
- Manual review of enforcement actions tied to the reporting party.
- Restoration of content or account features removed due to false or unsupported reports.
- Investigation into repeat abuse of reporting tools and claimant history.
- Safeguards preventing new automated removals initiated by the same party or related entities.
- Preservation of all DMCA notices, metadata, IP logs, account IDs, report timestamps, review logs, moderation notes, and appeal outcomes.
Platform-Specific Requests
- Meta: review page-at-risk status, monetization loss, account restrictions, and mass-report behavior.
- Google Search: review Search Console drop, toxic link history, disavow records, de-indexing, and suspicious reporting windows.
- Google Business Profile: review PO box / USPS address issue, review velocity, account linkage, and fake engagement indicators.
- Pinterest / Medium / Hosts: review repeat copyright notices and re-reporting after prior resolution.
Section XIII
Claimed Legal and Policy Violations Requiring Review
The preserved conduct, if verified through source records and platform logs, may implicate the following categories. Final legal conclusions are reserved for counsel, platform adjudication, or a court.
- DMCA abuse / material misrepresentation: repeated notices asserted against content Venomline identifies as earlier-published and original.
- Platform manipulation / bad-faith reporting: mass or coordinated reports used to obtain competitive advantage or suppress business assets.
- Google Business Profile fake engagement: review-velocity anomalies, low-trust reviewer accounts, and alleged review padding.
- Deceptive business representation: alleged use of a USPS / PO box-style location for a business profile requiring legitimate address review.
- Harassment and targeted attacks: anonymous texts, report threats, public reputation attacks, and emotional-distress-related statements preserved for review.
- Tortious interference / business sabotage: customer-relationship interference, account-standing damage, revenue harm, and platform restriction attempts.
- Search manipulation / toxic-link activity: suspicious backlink growth, spam-domain patterns, and disavow-related evidence requiring search-quality review.
- Copyright infringement / derivative copying: verbatim text, structural similarity, source-code residue, typo fingerprints, and mirrored page flow.
- Privacy / likeness misuse: alleged unauthorized scraping and republication of private or personal imagery in an adversarial commercial context.
Section XIV
Preservation Directives
Preserve Immediately
- Raw screenshots, original files, EXIF data, filenames, upload dates, and device metadata.
- Google Search Console exports, analytics logs, Search Console property history, disavow files, toxic-link exports, and server logs.
- All DMCA notices, counter-notices, platform warnings, ticket IDs, appeal records, and support chats.
- Review screenshots, reviewer URLs, review timestamps, public profile metadata, and Google Business Profile listing history.
- Meta professional dashboard screenshots, monetization records, page-status history, restriction notices, and support-ticket logs.
- Text-message screenshots, call logs, phone numbers, timestamps, and carrier / VOIP metadata where legally obtainable.
- Wayback captures, cached pages, source code, alt-tags, image file names, copied headings, and redline comparison files.
- Federal docket records, trademark records, and court rulings used as litigation context.
Escalation Targets
- Outside counsel and litigation-support vendor.
- Meta Legal / Trust & Safety.
- Google Search Quality and Google Business Profile Trust & Safety.
- Hosting providers and registrar abuse teams.
- Medium, Pinterest, YouTube, Reddit, and other publishing platforms where re-reporting occurred.
- Search-engine de-indexing and copyright review teams.
- Review-platform integrity teams.
- Civil court discovery if voluntary platform review is not sufficient.
Section XV
Sworn Declaration
"I, Matt Siebenthal, declare under penalty of perjury that I am the owner and authorized custodian of the protected assets identified in this record. I assert that the screenshots, archived materials, publication records, and forensic evidence described herein are preserved in good faith as part of Venomline's chain-of-custody file and legal-review record."
Date: July 6, 2026
Owner / Founder, Venomline Bullies and Texas Size Bullies
Section XVI
Governance, Policy & Source References
Appendix
Image Upload Manifest for Shopify Files
| Evidence Category | Local Filename(s) | Recommended Public Caption |
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| Search Console traffic drop |
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Search Console captures preserving mid-November 2024 visibility drop. |
| Ahrefs / backlink spam |
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Ahrefs snapshots preserving backlink-spam and referring-domain surge indicators. |
| Google Business Profile reviews |
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Google listing review-status before/after evidence. |
| Waxhaw / USPS address |
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Maps and Street View evidence for address-eligibility review. |
| Meta page at risk |
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Meta professional dashboard page-at-risk and support-ticket evidence. |
| Report threat / text messages |
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Preserved communications relevant to harassment, platform-reporting, and reputational-interference review. Public copies must remain substantially redacted or blurred. |
| Negative review attacks |
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Review screenshots preserving similar defamatory narrative patterns and low-history profiles. |
| Forensic matrix and court graphics |
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Visual summary exhibits; use alongside text and public docket links. |
| Private image / unauthorized likeness |
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Original image and alleged unauthorized use context; redact private identifiers as needed. |
| WordPress / Medium / page status evidence |
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Publishing and page-status context preserving authorship and platform escalation history. |