Copyright Policy and DMCA Notices

Designated Agent

What your notice must include

To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), your notification must include substantially the following:

1. Your physical or electronic signature, as a person authorized to act for the owner of the exclusive right allegedly infringed.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed, or a representative list if multiple works at a single site are covered by one notification.
3. Identification of the material claimed to be infringing, with information reasonably sufficient to let us locate it.
4. Information reasonably sufficient to let us contact you — address, telephone number, and email address if available.
5. A statement that you have a good faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act for the owner of the exclusive right allegedly infringed.

How we respond

We respond expeditiously to remove or disable access to material that is the subject of a valid notification, and we terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.

Counter-notification

If material of yours was removed or disabled and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you may send a counter-notification to the designated agent above. Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3), it must include substantially the following:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material that was removed or disabled, and the location where it appeared before it was removed or disabled.
3. A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification.
4. Your name, address, and telephone number, a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located — or, if your address is outside the United States, any judicial district in which we may be found — and a statement that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original notification, or an agent of that person.

We may forward your counter-notification, including the contact information in it, to the party who sent the original notice. If that party does not tell us they have filed an action seeking a court order to restrain the activity, we may restore the removed material in 10 to 14 business days.

A note on misrepresentation

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