(www.dotdotduo.com)
DMCA - Copyright Notice Procedure
0947137 B.C. Ltd., carrying on business as “..duo”
and www.dotdotduo.com
requires all Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) notices to be in writing
and delivered via regular mail or fax in order to enable us to review and
respond to your complaint as efficiently as possible while maintaining
compliance with the DMCA. The full text of the DMCA is available from the United
States Copyright Office website athttp://www.copyright.gov.
For a
Copyright Notice to be valid under the DMCA, the complaining party must provide
the detailed information outlined below. You should also be aware that, under
the DMCA, you could be held liable for damages (including any costs and
attorney's fees) if you materially misrepresent that a product, service,
webpage or activity is infringing your copyright. The DMCA provides, in part:
ANY PERSON
WHO KNOWINGLY MATERIALLY MISREPRESENTS THAT MATERIAL OR ACTIVITY IS INFRINGING,
OR THAT MATERIAL OR ACTIVITY WAS REMOVED OR DISABLED BY MISTAKE OR
MISIDENTIFICATION, SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING COSTS AND
ATTORNEYS' FEES, INCURRED BY THE ALLEGED INFRINGER, BY ANY COPYRIGHT OWNER OR
COPYRIGHT OWNER'S AUTHORIZED LICENSEE, OR BY A SERVICE PROVIDER, WHO IS INJURED
BY SUCH MISREPRESENTATION, AS THE RESULT OF THE SERVICE PROVIDER RELYING UPON
SUCH MISREPRESENTATION IN REMOVING OR DISABLING ACCESS TO THE MATERIAL OR
ACTIVITY CLAIMED TO BE INFRINGING, OR IN REPLACING THE REMOVED MATERIAL OR
CEASING TO DISABLE ACCESS TO IT.
If you are not
certain whether the material about which you are complaining infringes your
copyright, you shouldobtain competent legal advice. If you are not subject to the laws of the
United States, the DMCA may not apply to you.
If you are not certain whether the DMCA applies to you, you should
obtain competent legal advice.
Step 1: Create a written Copyright Notice document
using this format.
DMCA Copyright Notice
Section 1: Identify
your original work. Identify
the copyrighted work that you claim is being infringed. In the case of online
content, include the website URL where an authorized copy of your copyrighted
content is located. If the copyrighted work is not available online, include a
hard copy of the work and proof of the existence and your ownership of the
copyright in the work (e.g. your copyright registration).
Section 2:
Identify the infringing content.Identify the website URL where a copy of the allegedly infringing
material is located. Provide the individual URL(s) of eachrelevant web page and
if necessary the location of the text or content.
Section 3:
Your Direct Contact Information
Name:____________________________________
Address:____________________________________
Phone Number:____________________________________
E-Mail:____________________________________
Section 4:Include the following statement:
"I have
a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above in
Section 1 on the allegedly infringing web pages identified above in Section 2
is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agents, or the law and therefore
infringes the copyright owner’s rights. I hereby request that you forthwith
remove or disable access to the identified copyrighted materialson the
identified allegedly infringing web pages."
Section 5:Include the following statement:
"I certify,
under penalty of perjury, that the information in this notification is accurate
and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the
owner of an exclusive intellectual property right that is allegedly being infringed."
Section 6: Sign & Date
Name:____________________________________
Signature:__________________________________
Date:___________________________
Step 2: Mail or fax the written Copyright Notice document
to us.
Please note
that the document must be signed and dated.
By Mail:
0947137 B.C. Ltd.
Attn: ..duo Copyright Agent
C/O PUSHOR MITCHELL LLP
301-1665 Ellis Street
Kelowna, BC Canada
V1W 4T7
By Fax:
0947137
B.C. Ltd.
Attn: ..duo Copyright Agent
(250) 762-6665