Copyright and DMCA policy

Our approach

We respect intellectual property. We respond to notices that comply with the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. 512) and to equivalent notices under other laws. We quote vendor pages briefly and link to them as sources; if you think a quotation or any other material here goes further than it should, tell us.

How to send a notice

Send your notice through the contact form with the topic Copyright notice. The form then asks for the details below. A notice must include:

• your physical or electronic signature, as the owner or as a person authorized to act for the owner;
• identification of the copyrighted work you say is infringed;
• identification of the material on this site, with its URL, that you want removed or disabled;
• your contact information, including an email address;
• a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorized by the owner, its agent or the law;
• a statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act for the owner.

Counter-notification

If material you supplied was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you can send a counter-notification through the contact form. It must include:

• your physical or electronic signature;
• identification of the material removed and the URL where it appeared;
• a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you believe in good faith the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification;
• your name, address and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for your address (or, if you are outside the United States, any judicial district in which the site may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice or their agent.

We may restore the material 10 to 14 business days after we receive a valid counter-notification, unless the person who sent the original notice tells us they have filed a court action to restrain the alleged infringement.

False notices

Under 17 U.S.C. 512(f), a person who knowingly and materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that it was removed by mistake, can be liable for damages. Please check your facts before sending a notice or counter-notification.

Repeat infringers

The site has no user uploads. Our repeat infringer policy therefore applies to any material contributed to the site by others: if someone repeatedly supplies infringing material, we stop accepting material from them.

Forwarding notices

We may forward a notice, or a counter-notification, to the party concerned so that they can respond.