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Copyright notices

We respect copyright, and we ask the people who use Gentle Handover to store and share only what they have the right to. This page says how to tell us that something on Gentle Handover infringes your copyright, and what happens next.

For anything else that breaks our rules, use Report this page on a memorial page or Report this under something you received, as section 7 of our Terms says.

Our copyright agent

Send copyright notices to the agent we designated with the United States Copyright Office.

Agent
Copyright Agent
Organization
Humanful LLC
Postal address
8 The Green, Suite R, Dover, DE 19901
Telephone
434-436-2358
Email
[email protected]

What to put in a notice

  1. Your physical or electronic signature, or that of the person who may act for the copyright owner.
  2. The work you say is infringed. If several works are on one page, a list of them is enough.
  3. The content you say infringes and where it is, such as the address of the memorial page, so that we can find it.
  4. Your name, postal address, telephone number and email address.
  5. A statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law.
  6. A statement that the information in your notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner or may act for the owner.

A notice that leaves out most of these may not let us act. We will tell you what is missing.

What we do with a notice

A person at Gentle Handover reads every notice. We do not look through what people store, so we act on the content your notice points to. If the notice is complete, we remove that content or hold it so that nobody can see or receive it, and we tell the person who stored it what was claimed and how to answer.

If your content was removed

If you believe your content was removed by mistake or because it was wrongly identified, you can send a counter notice to the same agent. Include these.

  1. Your physical or electronic signature.
  2. What was removed and where it was before.
  3. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you believe in good faith that it was removed by mistake or because it was wrongly identified.
  4. Your name, address and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district where your address is, or, if your address is outside the United States, any judicial district in which Humanful LLC may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the notice or their agent.

We send your counter notice to the person who sent the notice. We put the content back no sooner than 10 and no later than 14 business days after we receive it, unless that person tells us first that they have gone to court to stop it.

False notices

A person who knowingly and materially misrepresents that content infringes, or that it was removed by mistake, can be liable for damages, costs and lawyers' fees under 17 U.S.C. section 512(f).

People who infringe again and again

We close, in appropriate circumstances, the account of a person who repeatedly infringes other people's copyright, as section 12 of our Terms says. We count only notices that were complete and were not reversed by a counter notice. A person at Gentle Handover looks at every case, and we give notice and time to export first, except where the law prevents it.

Notices under Canada's Copyright Act

If you hold copyright in Canada, you can also send a notice under section 41.25 of the Copyright Act to the same agent. We forward it by email to the person who stored the content as soon as we can and tell you that we did, or why we could not. We keep the records that identify that person for six months, or for one year if you tell us within those six months that you have started proceedings. We charge nothing for this.

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