DMCA Policy
Rspca East Branch respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects its users to do the same. In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA), the text of which can be found on the U.S. Copyright Office website at http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf, we will respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement committed using the Rspca East Branch service and/or website (the "Site") if such claims are reported to our Designated Copyright Agent identified below.
If you are a copyright owner, or are authorized to act on behalf of one, or authorized to act under any exclusive right under copyright, please report alleged copyright infringements taking place on or through the Site by completing the following DMCA Notice of Alleged Infringement and delivering it to our Designated Copyright Agent.
Filing a Notice of Alleged Infringement
To file a DMCA notice of alleged infringement with Rspca East Branch, you must provide a written communication that includes substantially the following:
- Identify the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed, or if multiple copyrighted works are covered by a single notification, provide a representative list of such works.
- Identify the material that you claim is infringing (or to be the subject of infringing activity) and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit Rspca East Branch to locate the material (e.g., URL(s) of the material on the Rspca East Branch website).
- Provide information reasonably sufficient to permit Rspca East Branch to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted.
- Include a statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
- Include a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
- Provide your physical or electronic signature.
Upon receipt of a valid DMCA notice, Rspca East Branch will remove or disable access to the allegedly infringing material and take reasonable steps to notify the user who posted the material that their content has been removed or disabled.
Filing a Counter-Notification
If you believe that your material has been removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, you may file a counter-notification with Rspca East Branch by providing a written communication that includes substantially the following:
- Identify 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 access to it was disabled.
- Include a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.
- Provide your name, address, and telephone number.
- Include a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located, or if your address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which Rspca East Branch may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original DMCA notification or an agent of such person.
- Provide your physical or electronic signature.
Upon receipt of a valid counter-notification, Rspca East Branch will promptly forward a copy to the original complaining party. 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-notification, at Rspca East Branch's sole discretion.
Contact Information
All notices described above, whether for alleged infringement or counter-notification, must be sent to Rspca East Branch via our contact page: