DMCA

Submitting or Responding to a Copyright Infringement Claim

If you are a Copyright Owner and would like to submit a copyright claim for materials you believe are being posted or displayed in violation of your copyrights, please submit (or have your agent submit) the following information via email to [email protected]. Please place the words “Copyright Claim” in the subject line. 

A copyright claim can also be submitted by mail to our Notification Address: 

The Worthwhile Company, LLC,

PO Box 26764

Greenville, SC 29616

 

You must include all of the following information in any DMCA request submitted to Worthwhile:

  1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the 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 the service provider to locate the material.
  4. Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted.
  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.

 

Failure to include all necessary information may result in your claim being discarded without action. The statements you make must be after reasonable inquiry into their truthfulness and support under the law. Frivolous or false claims may result in a counter-action under section 512(f) of the DMCA. The penalties for misrepresentation can include actual damages and attorney’s fees. 

Upon receipt of a proper DMCA claim, Worthwhile will remove or disable access to the material that is claimed to be infringing, if we are able to specifically identify the material alleged to be infringed. We will forward the Complaining Party’s written notification to the alleged Infringer and will take reasonable steps promptly to notify the alleged infringer that we removed or disabled access to the material.

If you are one of Worthwhile’s clients and you have received notice from Worthwhile that we have received a claim concerning anything on your site, or if information from your site has been taken down due to a copyright claim, you may provide a Counter Notification by emailing us at [email protected]. Please include the words “DMCA Counter Notification” in the email subject line. 

DMCA Counter Notifications can also be submitted by mail to the Notification Address.

 The Counter Notification must include all of the following information:

  1. The physical or electronic signature of the subscriber.
  2. 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.
  3. A statement under penalty of perjury that the subscriber has 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.
  4. The subscriber’s name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that the subscriber consents to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial district in which the address is located, or if the subscriber’s address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which the service provider may be found, and that the subscriber will accept service of process from the person who provided the Copyright Claim notification or an agent of such person.

 

Failure to include all necessary information may result in your DMCA Counter-Notification being discarded without action. The statements you make must be after reasonable inquiry into their truthfulness and support under the law.

Upon receipt of a Counter Notification, Worthwhile will promptly provide the Complaining Party with a copy of the Counter Notification, and inform the Complaining Party that it will replace the removed material or cease disabling access to it within ten (10) business days. We will replace the removed material and/or cease disabling access to it in no more than fourteen (14), business days following receipt of the Counter Notification, unless we receive notice that a lawsuit has been filed requesting the court to enjoin any infringing activity.