Copyright Infringement Notification

The content on this website is primarily original content, but we do share templates, examples, blog posts, and similar content that people submit or that I find someone sharing elsewhere on the interwebs. I would never intentionally share any content in violation of the copyright law. Likewise, I would never intentionally share someone else’s work product with properly attributing them. If you believe that your content appears anywhere on this site in violation of copyright law or without proper attribution then it was unintentional. Many of the templates and example documents found on the internet are derivatives of derivatives that have been floating around the web since the web first became a thing.

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If you believe that your content appears on this site in violation of copyright law

If you believe that your content appears anywhere on this site in violation of copyright law, please follow the instructions below in accordance with the law and to notify me of the potential infringement so I can remove it and look into the matter further. Specifically, send an email or letter to the address below that includes all or substantially all of the following:

1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the holder of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site.
3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the material.
4. Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted.
5. A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of 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 the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

We may display a copy of your DMCA notice in place of the removed work.

Note: Under Section 512(f) of the DMCA, any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity is infringing may be subject to liability for damages. One company that sent an infringement notification seeking removal of online materials that were protected by the fair use doctrine was ordered to pay such costs and attorneys fees under this provision. See Online Policy Group v. Diebold, http://www.eff.org/cases/online-policy-group-v-diebold for more information. In addition, “in order for a copyright owner to proceed under the DMCA with “a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law,” the owner must evaluate whether the material makes fair use of the copyright.” Lenz v. Universal, 572 F. Supp. 2d 1150, 1155 (2008).

This notification page was copied in large part from the Free Software Foundation‘s website. I used portions of the language from their page licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License based on https://www.fsf.org/about/dmca-notice.