Copyright Violation and DMCA
Dark Communications fully comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (also known as DMCA) to protect the rights of copyright owners.
If you think our website contains materials that rightfully belong to you or an entity you represent, you may contact us and invoke the protections provided by the DMCA act.
It is our policy to respond to clear notices of alleged infringement. This response describes the information that should be present in these notices. It is designed to make submitting notices of alleged infringement to us as straightforward as possible while reducing the number of notices that we receive that are fraudulent or difficult to understand or verify.
To file a notice of infringement with us, you must provide a written communication that sets forth the items specified below.
Please note that you will be liable for damages (including costs and attorneys’ fees) if you materially misrepresent that a product or activity is infringing your copyright. Accordingly, if you are not sure whether material available online infringes your copyright, we suggest that you first contact an attorney.
DMCA complaint?
The complaining party is required to deliver to Dark Communications the following information:
First Name:
Last Name:
Street Address:
City:
State or Province:
Zip:
Country:
Phone Number:
Company Name:
Email:
YOUR COPYRIGHTED Work Identify in sufficient detail the copyrighted work you believe has been infringed upon. Provide the copyright.
Location of copyrighted work. Additional information about the copyrighted work you may have.
Location of Infringing material. Identify the material you claim is infringing the copyrighted work listed above. You must identify each web page that allegedly contains infringing material. This requires you to provide the URL for each allegedly infringing result, document, or item.
Location (URL) of infringing third-party content. Show one URL per line.
The company works in the good faith belief that the use of the copyrighted materials described above as allegedly infringing is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law. There is no intention of infringement on copyright.
I swear, under penalization of perjury, that the communication in the notice is accurate and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
The following statements were printed, SIGNED MANUALLY, and sent (scan and attach a statement to an email):
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“I have a good faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.”
“Under the penalty of perjury, I state that the information contained in my complaint is accurate and I am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright I claim is infringed.”
A physical, faxed, or electronic signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
This form does not constitute legal guidance and nothing that you read or are provided on this website should be used as a substitute for the advice of competent legal counsel.
DMCA issues with our sites?
Dark Communications:
Custodian of Records: Sara
ANY INQUIRIES OTHER THAN THOSE RELATED TO THE DMCA WILL BE DELETED.
- 512(f) Misrepresentations Section 512(f) deters false claims of infringement by imposing liability on anyone who makes such claims, for the damages suffered by other parties as a result of the OSP’s reliance on the false claim, and for associated legal fees.
This provision has case history, as illustrated by the cases of Online Policy Group v. Diebold, Inc.,[19] where an electronic voting technology firm was sanctioned for knowingly issuing meritless notices of infringement to ISPs, and more recently Lenz v. Universal, 801 F.3d 1126 (2015).
For more information about DMCA visit http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf
PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT IF YOU KNOWINGLY MISREPRESENT THAT ONLINE MATERIAL IS INFRINGING, YOU MAY BE SUBJECT TO HEAVY CIVIL PENALTIES AND CRIMINAL PENALTIES.