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Please take note. Just including this text on your website is not enough to gain the protection of the DMCA safe harbor provision. In addition you must register a designated copyright agent. Also, make sure you understand the limitations of safe harbor with regard to deriving no benefit and having no knowledge of the presence of infringing materials at your website. For additional information we suggest watching this video from the NAR legal counsel.
The Lones Group, Inc. grants you the right to freely use, modify, and distribute the following example text without attribution.
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Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”)
ALFA respects the intellectual property rights of others. Per the DMCA, ALFA will respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement on the Site if submitted to ALFA’s Copyright Agent as described below. Upon receipt of a notice alleging copyright infringement, ALFA will take whatever action it deems appropriate within its sole discretion, including removal of the allegedly infringing materials and termination of access for repeat infringers of copyright protected content.
If you believe that your intellectual property rights have been violated by ALFA or by a third party who has uploaded materials to our website, please provide the following information to the designated Copyright Agent listed below:
- A description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed;
- A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Site;
- An address, telephone number, and email address where we can contact you and, if different, an email address where the alleged infringing party, if not ALFA, can contact you;
- A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner or other intellectual property rights owner, by its agent, or by law;
- A statement by you under penalty of perjury that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or are authorized to act on the owner’s behalf;
- Your electronic or physical signature.
ALFA may request additional information before removing any allegedly infringing material. In the event ALFA removes the allegedly infringing materials, ALFA will immediately notify the person responsible for posting such materials that ALFA removed or disabled access to the materials. ALFA may also provide the responsible person with your email address so that the person may respond to your allegations.ALFAALFA