DMCA Notice to Host
Subject: Notice of Copyright Infringement
To Whom It May Concern:
The following information is presented for the purposes of removing web content that infringes on my copyright per the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), as authorized in § 512(c) of the U.S. Copyright Law. I appreciate your enforcement of copyright law and the support of my rights in this matter, as the infringing material appears on the Service for which you are the designated agent.
Identification of Copyrighted Work
The copyrighted work at issue is the text that appears on www.mydomain.com and it’s related pages.
Identification of Infringed Material
The following paragraphs, placed in quotes, were used as the search queries in <<Search Engine>>. When a match was made to a site other than ours, we evaluated the extent of the copyright infringement. In all cases presented, entire paragraphs and/or pages have been copied. The attached spreadsheet provides examples of the copied text. We have retained but not submitted printed examples of each infringement.
Query# 1
“XXX1”
Query # 2
“XXX2”
The URLs of the infringing search results are as follows (With query numbers in parentheses):
BadCompany Inc
http://www.badcompany.com/ (Query # 1 and Query # 2)
http://www.badcompany.com/Telecom_Analysis.html (Query # 13 and Query # 14)
http://www.badcompany.com/Contract_Maximization.html (Query # 16)
http://www.badcompany.com/Network_Maximization.html (Query# 17)
http://www.badcompany.com/ABTRAC.html (Query # 18)
My Contact Information:
Name
Address
Phone Number
Email Address
Copyright Infringers Information
{WHOIS DATA}
Copyright Owners Statement
I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above on the allegedly infringing web pages is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
I swear, under the penalty of perjury laws of the United States of America, that the information in the notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
Yours very truly,
________________
Signer
cc Lawyer or other related party, if involved
DMCA Notice, Host
Review List
This review list is provided to inform you about this document in question and assist you in its preparation. This is a standard Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice to host action. It should be sent to the infringing site’s ISP or Web Hosting Provider, and can be sent to the major search engines for take down. You should be modified to suit your unique needs.
If this does not bring the promised results, then turn the matter over to your lawyer. You may be well advised to consult with your lawyer first, especially if you think the ultimate outcome might be litigation. The information presented hereon should not be construed as direct legal advice. For all matters involving copyright, please consult a qualified attorney.
1. Make multiple copies. Give one to each related party. Keep one in the relevant file.
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June 28th, 2009 at 4:12 am
I believe the DCMA is going too far and is being used to silence critics of corporations such as eBay who server a notice on my host because the site I run at ebuster,co,uk contains documents relating to wide scale fraud on eBay and as such it is important that pages that are displayed are not tampered with.
This time I had some luck since eBay picked on a fake login page I displayed after I had asked eBay on several occasions to get the page remove and from what I can understand they are upset about the eBay log at the top of the pages but it’s not like the site trying to compete against eBay and provides hundreds of links back to eBay.
The reason I present copies of pages is because eBay often remove pages where a dispute is involved so just how can anyone present case of wide scale fraud when it is becoming impossible to present evidence without have a gag order place on your host.
Yes I understand the reason for the DCMA but using it’s powers in this manor strikes at the heart of democracy and is allowing eBay to do as it pleases and in some cases it is not possible to remove the logo as some of the pages displayed on the site have been hijacked by script injection using hexadecimal code to overwrite the original page and therefore making it all but impossible to remove the eBay tm logo and no I don’t have a zillion$ to get involved with eBays lawyers but I do have freedom of speech so if that involves moving the site offshore then that is what I will do
July 3rd, 2009 at 9:40 am
Greetings great insightful, nice one for this work you’ve done.
May 11th, 2010 at 7:37 am
Yes I understand the reason for the DCMA but using it’s powers in this manor strikes at the heart of democracy and is allowing eBay to do as it pleases and in some cases it is not possible to remove the logo as some of the pages displayed on the site have been hijacked by script injection using hexadecimal code to overwrite the original page and therefore making it all but impossible to remove the eBay tm logo and no I don’t have a zillion$ to get involved with eBays lawyers but I do have freedom of speech so if that involves moving the site offshore then that is what I will do
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