Copyright Policy
If you believe that material available on our sites, including those hosted at WordPress.com, infringes on your copyright(s), please notify us by submitting a copyright infringement notice. After we receive a valid and complete notice, we will investigate, remove the material, and make a good faith attempt to contact the user who uploaded the material, via email.
WordPress.com is a publishing platform where site owners often use copyrighted materials in commentary or journalism, or transform the materials into something original. As such, before submitting a notice, it’s important to consider whether the material used falls under fair use. If you are not sure whether material located on a WordPress.com site infringes on your copyright, or if it is subject to fair use protections, you should first consider seeking legal advice.
You may be liable for damages (including costs and attorneys’ fees) if you materially misrepresent that material or activity infringes on your copyright. We have and will highlight such abuses and seek to collect those damages.
Your notice will be forwarded to the party that made the material available, and also may be sent to third parties such as LumenDatabase.org. A note will also be placed on the site in question detailing the name of the copyright owner who submitted the notice. In addition, you are required to consider the possible fair use implications, as a result of Lenz v. Universal. We reserve the right to challenge abuses of this process, and your use of this form does not waive that right.
Please follow these steps to file a notice:
Designated Copyright Agent
Clouderation Web Services.
132 W Lake St. #5
Bloomingdale, IL 60108
Phone: (847) 641-5999
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 copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed;
- A description of the nature and exact location of the material that you claim to infringe your copyright, in sufficient detail to permit Clouderation to find and positively identify that material. For example we require a link to the specific post (not just the name of the blog) that contains the material and a description of which specific portion of the post – an image, a link, the text, etc. your complaint refers to;
- Your name, address, telephone number and email 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.