RESOURCES : FORMS : COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT :

Need to notify a company of copyright infringement?

Here are 2 forms that I have used with success. These forms are freely available on the web.

Please Note: I am not a lawyer, so please check with your legal representative if in doubt.

Cease and Desist Notification
(Word Doc) (Courtesy of: http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/contract/cease.htm)

DMCA Form
(Word Doc) (Digital Millennium Copyright Act)

 

Useful Links:

How do you send Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notifications to the major search engines
and directories asking that they remove copyright violators from their sites?

Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (US Copyright Office Summary) (pdf document)

Complying with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

 

 

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Need to deter someone who is 'hot linking' or 'borrowing' your work, use a graphic to replace the one they may be linking to with something like this:

 

"The owner of the site you are visiting is using this graphic without our permission"

OR

.... time to get your business on the web ...

JUST DON'T 'BORROW' SOMEONE ELSES INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY !!!