Last updated: April 26, 2026
This Legal Notice is intended to identify the entity responsible for the Buobe platform, clarify the technical and legal nature of the services provided, and define the limits of Buobe’s liability as an internet application provider and automatic aggregator of public content, in accordance with applicable Brazilian and international law.
The Buobe platform is operated by:
Legal Name:
Buobe Tecnologia de Comunicação Digital e Serviços de Internet do Brasil LTDA
CNPJ:
53.852.590/0001-47
Headquarters:
Igarassu – Pernambuco – Brazil
Buobe is a search engine and automatic news aggregator — a technological platform that, by means of automatic crawling robots (crawlers), indexes, organizes, analyzes, and displays public content available on the internet, including news, metadata, and informational references.
Buobe:
The content displayed on the platform originates entirely from external public sources. The copyright in such content belongs exclusively to its respective authors and originating outlets.
Buobe uses automatic crawling robots to collect public metadata from web pages, including:
og:title and og:description meta tags);og:image meta tag, published by the originating outlet itself);This process is fully automated, with no editorial human intervention in the selection or curation of individual content. OpenGraph meta tags are a technical web standard (defined by Facebook/Meta’s Open Graph protocol) and are made publicly available by the media outlets themselves for the explicit purpose of allowing content previews on sharing and aggregation platforms.
By publishing an og:image meta tag with a publicly accessible URL, the originating outlet technically manifests that the image may be referenced by third parties for indexing and preview purposes — a practice universally accepted in the architecture of the contemporary web that does not constitute reproduction, copying, or storage of the work.
This section is of critical importance for the correct understanding of Buobe’s technical and legal model in relation to third-party works.
The Brazilian Copyright Law (Lei nº 9.610/1998) protects the reproduction and the distribution of works. The hotlinking technique does not constitute reproduction or distribution of the original work, because:
The prevailing legal position, as well as the case law of the Superior Tribunal de Justiça (STJ — REsp 1.763.517/SP), recognizes that application providers that display content generated or published by third parties without storing it themselves do not incur direct liability for any copyright infringement, a specific notification being required to establish the intermediary’s liability.
Copyright holders wishing to request the removal of references to images or videos must submit a formal notification containing:
Buobe undertakes to process valid and duly substantiated requests within 48 business hours, in accordance with the Marco Civil da Internet (Lei nº 12.965/2014) and the principles of the DMCA — Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Requests lacking the elements above may be returned for completion.
Buobe operates under the express protection of the Marco Civil da Internet (Lei nº 12.965/2014), in particular its Art. 19, which provides:
"In order to ensure freedom of expression and prevent censorship, the internet application provider may only be held civilly liable for damages arising from content generated by third parties if, after a specific court order, it fails to take the necessary measures to render the content identified as infringing unavailable within the stated period, subject to legal provisions to the contrary."
Under this law, Buobe, as an internet application provider, cannot be held civilly liable for third-party content indexed automatically in the absence of a specific court order requiring its removal — except in the legally provided cases of non-consensual nudity or sexual content (Art. 21).
Additionally, Buobe adopts the notice and takedown model (notification and removal), undertaking to process valid requests voluntarily, even though there is no legal obligation to do so in the absence of a court order, as a means of cooperating with rights holders and media outlets.
Buobe also observes, to the extent applicable to international operators:
Buobe is not responsible for:
To the extent that the image is published by the originating outlet with the authorization of the rights holder (as frequently occurs with large media outlets that hire photojournalists or acquire licenses from agencies), Buobe’s display, via hotlinking, of the URL made available by the outlet itself falls within the scope of authorized use.
Although the company’s headquarters are located in Brazil, the Buobe platform is accessible globally. Users from different countries acknowledge that access to the platform occurs on their own initiative and are responsible for complying with the applicable local laws. Buobe applies Brazilian legislation as its primary law and may observe additional obligations as required by applicable foreign legislation.
The processing of personal data is governed by Buobe’s Privacy Policy, drawn up in accordance with:
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Buobe shall not be liable for:
Under no circumstances shall Buobe’s total liability for any damages arising from the use of the platform exceed the amount paid by the user for Buobe’s services in the twelve months preceding the event — or R$ 100.00 (one hundred reais) for users who have not made any payments.
This Legal Notice may be updated at any time, particularly in the event of corporate, operational, technological, or legal changes. The most recent version will always be available on this page.
Material changes will be signaled by the update date shown at the top of this document. Continued use of the platform after any update implies acceptance of the revised terms.
For legal matters, formal notifications, content removal requests, copyright inquiries, or any official communication with Buobe:
For general matters not related to legal topics: contact@buobe.com