DMCA Letter

Looking for a good template

[CannonFodder]

Does anyone have a decent template of a letter to complain against an ISP for a copyright infringement? I have 3 sites I need to target that have "borrowed" about 10,000 entries from our database and posted them as their own content. I have more than enough proof that the content is mine and emails to those individual sites have produced no response. The next obvious step to me is the letter to their respective ISPs.

I'd like to come off as professional so a little help with my letter would be appreciated.

Hey, I won't even 'copy' it word for word.

Thanks,

Dan

[willybfriendly]

I usually send an email to the site owner telling them they have 24 hours to remove the page(s), and outlining the information that I have to substantiate that they have plagiarized my content.

If the page is not removed I contact the host, provide all of the information I have, and attach the email sent to the owner.

Then, about a day later I usually get an email from the site owner asking why I was so harsh as to have their site taken down.

No template necesssary. Just write from the heart.

WBF

[stapel]

I've had fairly consistent luck with the following:

Dear [contact person, or "Support", at server host],

It has come to our attention that copyrighted content created and owned by [your name] and posted online at [your domain name] has been copied and posted to your server. Therefore, the following DMCA-notification information is being provided to you.

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1) The following is an electronic copy of the signature of the [name of content] copyright owner:

/[insert your name between slashes]/
[type your name again, without slashes]

As the copyright owner, [your name] is authorized to speak on the behalf of the copyright owner.

[Insert Copyright Registration number, if applicable, noting that "statutory damages may apply."]

2) The identity of the copyrighted materials infringed:

[insert link(s) to content being copied]

3) The identity of the material claimed to be an infringement:

[insert link(s) to copies of your stuff]

4) Information reasonably sufficient to allow the recipient to contact the complaining party:

[your name and address]

[your phone number]

[your e-mail address]

5) 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."

"I, [your name], creator and owner of the lessons content and images on all the pages at:

[your domain's main URL]

...have never given permission to [name parties, from apparent plagiarizer up to server host] to copy, mirror, download/upload, frame, rework, or otherwise present my work, or derivatives thereof, as his/her/their own.

"I, [your name], hereby reiterate my 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. Statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.

"To the best of my knowledge, the information I, [your name], have hereby presented is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner."

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Your prompt attention is appreciated. Thank you.

Sincerely,
[your name]

Keep it neutral, impersonal, even third-party, in tone. Don't threaten to sue; just provide information. If the recipient happens to assume that you've brought a lawyer in on it and might be planning to sue, you can't help that.

Eliz.

[CannonFodder]

Eliz and WBF,

Thanks for the advice and suggestions. I'll be back if they don't work :-) but I think that I probably won't have to return.

Have a great day,

Dan