Ghafla254 – online news outlet [‘Company’] has adopted the following
policy toward copyright infringement in accordance with the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act (http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/legislation/dmca.pdf). The contact
of the Designated Agent to Receive Notification of Claimed Infringement
(“Designated Agent”) is listed at the end of this policy.
Ghafla254. – DMCA COPYRIGHT POLICY
Reporting
Copyright Infringement:
If you allege that your intellectual property is being violated, you
must submit to the Company:
- A
physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf
of the owner of the copyright that has been allegedly infringed;
- Identification
of the works or materials being infringed;
- Identification
of the material that is claimed to be infringing including information
regarding the specific location of the infringing materials on the
Company’s website that the copyright owner seeks to have removed, with
sufficient detail so that Company is capable of finding and verifying its
existence;
- Contact
information of the person notifying the Company, including address,
telephone number and, if available, e-mail address;
- A
statement that the notifier has a good faith belief that the material is
not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
- A
statement made under penalty of perjury that the information provided is
accurate and the notifying party is authorized to make the complaint on
behalf of the copyright owner.
Once Proper Bona
Fide Infringement Notification is Received by the Designated Agent: It is
Company’s policy:
- to
remove or disable access to the infringing material;
- to
notify the content provider, member or user that it has removed or
disabled access to the material; and
- that
repeat offenders will have the infringing material removed from the system
and that Company will terminate such content provider’s, member’s or
user’s access to the service.
Procedure to
Supply a Counter-Notice to the Designated Agent:
- A
physical or electronic signature of the content provider, member or user;
- Identification
of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled
and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or
disabled;
- A
statement that the content provider, member or user has a good faith
belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or
a misidentification of the material; and
- Content
provider’s, member’s or user’s name, address, telephone number, and, if
available, e-mail address and a statement that such person or entity
consents to the jurisdiction of the Federal Court for the judicial
district in which the content provider’s, member’s or user’s address is
located, or if the content provider’s, member’s or user’s address is
located outside Kenya, for any judicial district in which Company is
located, and that such person or entity will accept service of process
from the person who provided notification of the alleged infringement.
If a counter-notice is received by the Designated Agent, Company may
send a copy of the counter-notice to the original complaining party informing
that person that it may replace the removed material or cease disabling it in
10 business days. Unless the copyright owner files an action seeking a court
order against the content provider, member or user, the removed material may be
replaced or access to it restored in 10 to 14 business days or more after
receipt of the counter-notice, at Company’s discretion. Please contact
the Designated Agent to Receive Notification of Claimed Infringement for
Company at Curtiscs2014@gmail.com.
Last Updated on June 13, 2016.
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