Last Updated: 6 November, 2023
A. We will terminate a user’s access to the website if, under appropriate circumstances, the user is determined to be a repeat infringer.
B. We reserve the right to decide whether material or activity violates our Terms of Use for reasons other than copyright infringement, including, but not limited to, child sexual abuse material, obscenity, or excessive length. We may at any time, without prior notice, remove that material or terminate a user’s account for submitting that material in violation of our Terms of Use.
We take claims of copyright infringement seriously. We will respond to allegations of copyright violations under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The DMCA provides a process for a copyright owner to give notice to an online service provider concerning alleged copyright infringement. When an effective DMCA notice is received, the online service provider responds under this process by taking down the offending content. On taking down content under the DMCA, we will take reasonable steps to contact the owner of the removed content so that a Counternotification may be filed. On receiving a valid Counternotification, we generally restore the content in question, unless we receive notice from the DMCA Notice provider that a legal action has been filed seeking a court order to restrain the alleged infringer from engaging in the infringing activity. Our privacy policy does not protect any information contained in any DMCA Counternotification.
If you are a copyright owner or an agent of a copyright owner and belief that any content infringes on your copyrights, you may submit a notice under the DMCA by providing our copyright agent with the following information in writing (see 17 U.S.C. § 512 for further detail):
Do not make false claims. Misuse of this process may result in the suspension of your account or other legal consequences.
You can send the DMCA Notice to our Designated Agent at:
Any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or an activity is infringing or that any material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, will be liable to us for any damages, including costs and legal fees incurred by us in removing or disabling access to the material or activity claimed to be infringing or in replacing the removed material or enabling access to it.
If you believe that your content/material that was removed or to which access was disabled is not infringing, or that you have the authorization from the copyright owner, the copyright owner’s agent, or under the law, to post and use the material, you may send a Counternotification containing the following information to our Designated Agent:
Any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or an activity is infringing or that any material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, will be liable to us for any damages, including costs and legal fees incurred by us in removing or disabling access to the material or activity claimed to be infringing or in replacing the removed material or enabling access to it.