Copyright Dispute Policy

Effective Date: January 29th, 2025

 

NOOSPHERE – COPYRIGHT DISPUTE POLICY

 

Noosphere respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users (including Contributors and Viewers) to do the same. It is our policy, in appropriate circumstances and at our discretion, to disable and/or terminate the accounts of users who may infringe or repeatedly infringe the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of others or of Noosphere or its Contributors.

1. NOTICE FOR CLAIMS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY VIOLATIONS AND AGENT:

If you are a copyright owner or an agent thereof and believe any Contributor Content or other Noosphere information infringes upon your copyrights, you may submit a notification of claimed infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) by providing notice to our Designated Copyright Agent (“Designated Copyright Agent”) containing the following information:

·       A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright that is allegedly infringed;

·       Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;

·       Identification of the material that is claimed to be 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 us to locate the material;

·       Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address;

·       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; and

·       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.

2. RECEIVING A COPYRIGHT NOTICE. If something you’ve posted to Noosphere is the target of a valid copyright notice, we will generally send you a copy of that notice when we remove or disable the allegedly infringing content. To replace the removed or disabled content, you must dispute the notice in accordance with the terms of this policy. We reserve the right to suspend or terminate the accounts of users who replace removed content in a manner inconsistent with this policy.

3. DISPUTING A COPYRIGHT NOTICE.

You may dispute a copyright notice submitted against your Noosphere account by contacting our Designated Copyright Agent as set forth below. After receiving a dispute notice that meets the requirements of the DMCA, we will send a complete copy of the notice to the complaining party. The rightsholder will then have 10 business days to initiate legal action and notify us. If we don’t receive timely notice of legal action from the rightsholder, we will generally replace the material that had been removed or disabled.

When sending a non-form notice to our designated agent, be sure that it includes all the information required under the DMCA. For your reference, this includes:

  • A description of the content that’s been removed and any associated URL(s)
  • Your full name and contact information, including your address and phone number
  • A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good faith belief that the removed content was taken down as a result of mistake or misidentification
  • A statement consenting to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located or, if you are outside of the United States, consenting to the jurisdiction of any judicial district in which Noosphere can be found (for instance, in Delaware)
  • A statement that you will accept service of process from the copyright notice sender or their agent at the address you’ve provided.
  • Your signature

 

4. CONTACT INFORMATION FOR OUR DESIGNATED COPYRIGHT AGENT

Noosphere’s Designated Copyright Agent to receive notifications of claimed infringement is:

Our Designated Copyright Agent can be reached through the following ways:

1.     By e-mail: [email protected]

2.     By postal mail: Copyright Agent, Noosphere, 85 Broad St, 16th Floor, New York, NY10004.

Please send only notices regarding alleged copyright violations to our Designated Agent.