Copyright
Artofit.org respects the intellectual property rights of others and we expect people on Artofit.org to do the same. It’s our policy—in appropriate circumstances and at our discretion—to disable or terminate the accounts of people who repeatedly infringe or are repeatedly charged with infringing copyrights or other intellectual property rights.
In keeping with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we’ll respond quickly to claims of copyright infringement on Artofit.org that are reported to our designated copyright agent, identified below.
If you’re a copyright owner or authorized to act on behalf of one, you can report alleged copyright infringements on Artofit.org by completing the DMCA Notice of Alleged Infringement and sending it to our designated copyright agent. When we get your DMCA notice, we’ll take whatever action we think is appropriate, which may include removing the reported content from Artofit.org. If we remove content in response to a DMCA notice, we may notify the person who published it on Artofit.org so they have the opportunity to send a counter-notice. We may also send a complete copy of the notice to others, as appropriate.
To submit a DMCA notice, please send the following information at [email protected]:
- Identify the copyrighted work you believe has been infringed. If you’re reporting multiple copyrighted works, you can provide a representative list of those copyrighted works.
- Identify the content on Artofit.org you claim to be infringing your rights, including the information we need to help us find it, like the URL to the page on Artofit.org.
- Include both of these statements in the body of your notice:
- “I hereby state that I have a good faith belief that the disputed use of the copyrighted material or reference or link to such material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law (for example, as a fair use).”
- “I hereby state that the information in this notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that I’m the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or of an exclusive right under the copyright that’s allegedly infringed.”
- “I hereby state that I have a good faith belief that the disputed use of the copyrighted material or reference or link to such material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law (for example, as a fair use).”
- Include your full legal name and your electronic or physical signature (for example, by typing your full name).
What if I get a copyright complaint (DMCA) notification?
If you’ve gotten a notification that one of your articles has been removed for a copyright complaint, it means the content owner asked us to remove it. If you want us to forward the information from the copyright complaint notification, just email us at [email protected] to let us know (we may remove some personal contact information). If your account gets too many copyright complaints, you could lose the ability to post on Artofit.org, or we may disable your account altogether.
If you think we made a mistake removing your article, you can file a counter-notice. When we get a valid counter-notice, we’ll remove the complaint from your account’s record.
Note: There are legal and financial consequences for fraudulent or bad faith counter-notices. Before submitting a counter-notice, make sure you have a good faith belief that we removed the content in error, and that you understand the repercussions of submitting a false claim.
How to file a counter-notice
If your content is removed as the result of a copyright takedown notice, you’ll receive instructions about how to file a counter-notice in the email notification we send you. Please note that you should only submit a counter-notice if you believe that the content was removed because of a mistake or misidentification.
When we receive a valid counter-notice, we’ll remove the complaint from your account’s record. If you asked us to reinstate the content that was removed, we will forward your counter-notice to the party that reported that content. The information they receive will include your contact information, which they may use to contact you directly.
If we provide your counter-notice to the party that reported the content, and they do not notify us that they have filed a court action seeking an order to keep the content down, we will reinstate the content. This process can take up to 14 business days.
Content Claiming
Anyone who owns exclusive copyright to content can contact us for modifications. We’ll review those applications to see if the rights holder is a good fit for the updates. If a rights holder’s application is approved, they’ll be able to upload their original content and tell us whether they want the content to appear on Artofit.org or not. Their selected enforcement will apply to both existing matches and future matches added to Artofit.org.
