Copyright and DMCA

ModernTechLap publishes articles, images and press releases submitted by contributors. If something published here is your work and you did not permit it, send a notice to our copyright agent and we will act on it.

We remove or disable access to material that is the subject of a complete notice, and we tell the contributor who submitted it, including a copy of the notice.

These six elements are what the statute requires (17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)). A notice missing one of them may not be actionable, so we may come back to you for it rather than acting on an incomplete complaint.

• Your physical or electronic signature.
• Identification of the work you say was infringed. Where several works on one page are covered, a representative list is enough.
• The URL of the material you want removed, specific enough for us to find it. A link to the page, not to the site.
• Your name, postal address, telephone number and email address.
• A statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
• A statement that the information in the notice is accurate and that, under penalty of perjury, you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner.

A notice is a sworn statement.Section 512(f) makes anyone who knowingly misrepresents that material is infringing liable for the costs the misrepresentation causes, including the other side’s legal fees.

You can send a counter-notice to the same address. It needs your signature, identification of the material and where it was, your name, address and telephone number, a statement under penalty of perjury that you believe in good faith the material was removed by mistake or misidentification, and your consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for your district (or, if you are outside the United States, for any district in which we may be found).

We forward a counter-notice to whoever sent the original complaint. If they do not tell us within ten to fourteen business days that they have gone to court to stop you, we may restore the material.

We terminate accounts that infringe repeatedly. In practice:

• A complete notice we act on is recorded against the contributor’s account as a strike. A notice withdrawn by the sender, or one answered by a counter-notice that goes unchallenged, is not.
• Three strikes and the account is terminated. Its published material comes down with it and the person may not open another account.
• A single flagrant case, such as a whole article copied from its source, can end an account on the first notice.

Strikes do not expire on a timetable. We will consider removing one if the underlying notice turns out to have been wrong.

For a factual correction, use the contact form and choose editorial correction. Copyright notices go to the agent above; anything else sent there will be slower to reach the right person, not faster.