Digital Millennium Copyright Act Notice

If you believe that content available by means of the Website (as defined in our Terms of Service) infringes one or more of your copyrights, please notify us by providing a written notice (“Infringement Notice”) containing the information described below to the designated agent listed below. If Automattic takes action in response to an Infringement Notice, it will make a good faith attempt to contact the party that made such content available by means of the most recent email address, if any, provided by such party to Automattic.

Your Infringement Notice may be forwarded to the party that made the content available or to third parties such as ChillingEffects.org.

Please be advised that you will be liable for damages (including costs and attorneys’ fees) if you materially misrepresent that a product or activity is infringing your copyrights. Thus, if you are not sure content located on or linked-to by the Website infringes your copyright, you should consider first contacting an attorney.

Please follow these steps to file a notice:

Verify that the blog in question is hosted by Automattic. We have no control over blogs that say “Powered by WordPress.org.” Those blogs use the open source WordPress software and are not hosted by us. Please contact the appropriate web host with complaints. We only host blogs that have “wordpress.com” in their URL or that say “powered by WordPress.com” on the site.
Contact the blogger directly. Go to the blog post in question and leave a comment with your complaint to see if the matter can be resolved directly between you and the blogger.
Send your complaint to our designated agent. If the issue cannot be resolved directly with the blogger, send your complaint to our designated agent at (we prefer email):

Mr. Toni Schneider
Email: dmca@automattic.com
Automattic, Inc.
60 29th Street #343
San Francisco, CA 94110
Phone: (877) 273-8550
Fax: (415) 840-0710

You must include the following:

A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf;
An identification of the copyright claimed to have been infringed;
A description of the nature and exact location of the content that you claim to infringe your copyright, in sufficient detail to permit Automattic to find and positively identify that content; for example we require a link to the specific blog post (not just the name of the blog) that contains the content and a description of which specific portion of the blog post – an image, a link, the text, etc – your complaint refers to;
Your name, address, telephone number and email address; and
A statement by you: (a) that you believe in good faith that the use of the content that you claim to infringe your copyright is not authorized by law, or by the copyright owner or such owner’s agent; (b) that all of the information contained in your Infringement Notice is accurate, and (c) under penalty of perjury, that you are either the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf.

You may also use the form below to submit a DMCA notice:

First Name(required)

Last Name(required)

Company Name

Address Line 1(required)

Address Line 2

City(required)

State/Region/Province(required)

Zip/Postal Code(required)

Country(required)

Telephone Number(required)

Email Address(required)

Location of copyrighted work (where your original material is located)(required)

Please describe the copyrighted work so that it may be easily identified(required)

Location (URL) of the unauthorized material on a WordPress.com site (NOT simply the primary URL of the site - example.wordpress.com; you must provide the full and exact permalink of the post, page, or image where the content appears, one per line) (required)

If the infringement described above is represented by a third-party link to a downloadable file (e.g. http://rapidshare.com/files/...), please provide the URL of the file (one per line)

I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above as allegedly infringing is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.(required)

I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification 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.(required)

Signed on this date of (today's date, MM/DD/YYYY)(required)

Signature (your digital signature is legally binding)(required)

If an Infringement Notice is valid, we are required by law to respond to it by disabling access to the allegedly infringing content. If you are a WordPress.com user and access to portions of your blog have been disabled for this reason, we will notify you. You then have the option to send us a written counter-notice (a Counter-Notice) stating why your content does not infringe copyrights and asking for access to be reinstated. Counter-Notices need to be sent to our designated agent set forth above and must include the following:

Your name, address, phone number and physical or electronic signature;
A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the U.S. Federal District Court for the judicial district in which you are located (or if you are outside the U.S., the U.S. Federal District Court for the Northern District of California), and that you will accept service of process from the person who originally provided us with the Infringement Notice (the “Copyright Holder”);
Identification of the allegedly infringing content and its location before removal or disabling of access; and
A statement under penalty of perjury that you believe in good faith that the content was removed by mistake or misidentification.

Please see this form for information about our registered DMCA agent.

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Digital Millennium Copyright Act Notice

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