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DMCA Policy

DMCA Policy

Smallpox Vaccine 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 (the "DMCA"), the text of which may be found on the U.S. Copyright Office website at http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf, Smallpox Vaccine will respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement committed using the Smallpox Vaccine service or website (the "Site") if such claims are reported to Smallpox Vaccine's 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 Smallpox Vaccine's Designated Copyright Agent.

Filing a DMCA Notice of Alleged Infringement

If you believe that your copyrighted work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement and is accessible via the Smallpox Vaccine service, please notify our Copyright Agent as set forth in the DMCA. For your complaint to be valid under the DMCA, you must provide the following information when providing notice of the claimed copyright infringement:

  1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
  2. 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.
  3. 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 Smallpox Vaccine to locate the material (e.g., URL).
  4. Information reasonably sufficient to permit Smallpox Vaccine to contact the complaining party, such as an an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address.
  5. A statement that the complaining party has 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.
  6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

The above information must be submitted to Smallpox Vaccine's Designated Copyright Agent:

DMCA Agent
Smallpox Vaccine Legal Department
[Insert Physical Address Here, e.g., 123 Health Lane, Immunity City, PC 98765]
Email: dmca@smallpoxvaccine.com

Upon receipt of a valid Notice of Alleged Infringement, Smallpox Vaccine will remove or disable access to the infringing content and take reasonable steps to notify the user who posted the content.

Filing a DMCA Counter-Notification

If you believe that your content was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter-notification to our Designated Copyright Agent. To be effective, a Counter-Notification must be a written communication provided to our Designated Copyright Agent and include substantially the following:

  • Your physical or electronic signature.
  • Identification of 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.
  • 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.
  • Your name, address, and telephone number.
  • 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 Smallpox Vaccine 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.

The above information must be submitted to Smallpox Vaccine's Designated Copyright Agent at the address provided above.

Upon receipt of a valid Counter-Notification, Smallpox Vaccine will promptly forward a copy to the 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 Smallpox Vaccine's sole discretion.

Further Information

For general inquiries or other policy questions not related to DMCA, please visit our Contact Us page.