Pursuant to the terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (“DMCA”), the owners of this site have registered an Interim Designated Agent with the United States Copyright Office. Our Interim Designated Agent is assigned to receive all notifications under the DMCA.
It is our policy to fully comply with the terms of the DMCA and to remove any article which we are notified infringes upon the copyrights of any party. We do not knowingly place any infringing items on our servers.
Furthermore, it is our policy to, at our discretion; terminate the accounts of any subscriber to our services who knowingly infringes upon the copyrights of others.
Furthermore, it is our policy, to terminate the accounts of any subscriber to our services who knowingly infringes upon the copyrights of others, as a repeat offender.
We refer you to the full text of the DMCA for a complete description of your rights and obligations concerning materials on this server that you feel violate your copyrights. It is our policy to fully comply with the DMCA.
You may notify us of materials that you feel are infringing by notifying the Designated Agent at the contact information indicated above. Your notification should comply with the requirements of the DMCA. At a minimum, the notice should include:
It is our policy to follow the terms of the DMCA. Upon receipt of a notice that “substantially complies” with the contents that are proscribed by the DMCA, we will take action to remove or disable the material that is claimed to be infringing.
We will contemporaneously notify the party responsible for such material that we have received our notification. This notification will include a statement that this party has the right to give us a counter notification which complies with the requirements of the DMCA.
If we receive a counter notification from the party responsible for the allegedly infringing content, we will notify you that we shall replace the removed or disabled material in 10 business days unless you notify us that you have commenced court action against the allegedly infringing party within that 10 day period.
If you file court action, the allegedly infringing materials will remain disabled until an order of the court determines the matter.
For a complete description of the rights that you have under the DMCA and the procedure that we will follow, we refer you to the full text of the DMCA. Nothing in these policies is intended to supplant the requirements and procedures contained in the DMCA. If there is conflict between these policies and the terms of the DMCA, the terms and requirements of the DMCA shall control.
Copyright Office Home Page http://www.loc.gov/copyright/index.html
Summary of Digital Millennium Act from the Copyright Office http://www.loc.gov/copyright/legislation/dmca.pdf