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DCMA Policy

Last updated: August 4th, 2024

Scholarshipful respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects its users to do the same. In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (“DMCA”), we will respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement that are reported to our designated copyright agent.

If you believe that your copyrighted work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement and is accessible on https://scholarshipful.com/, please notify our copyright agent as set forth in the DMCA. For your complaint to be valid under the DMCA, you must provide the following information in writing:

  1. An electronic or physical signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner;
  2. Identification of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
  3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and where it is located on the Website;
  4. Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as your address, telephone number, and email address;
  5. 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 law; and
  6. A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information is accurate, and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on behalf of the owner.

 

You may submit your DMCA notice to our designated agent at:

“[email protected]”

Upon receipt of a compliant DMCA notice, we will act expeditiously to remove or disable access to the infringing material. We will also take reasonable steps to promptly notify the user that we have removed or disabled access to the material.

Counter-Notification Procedure

If you believe that your content that was removed or to which access was disabled is not infringing, or that you have the authorization from the copyright owner, the copyright owner’s agent, or pursuant to the law, to post and use the material, you may send a counter-notice containing the following information to our copyright agent:

  1. Your physical or electronic signature;
  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 disabled;
  3. A statement that you have 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. Your name, address, telephone number, and email address, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court in texas and a statement that you will accept service of process from the person who provided notification of the alleged infringement.

If we receive a counter-notice, we may send a copy of the counter-notice to the original complaining party informing that person that we may replace the removed material or cease disabling it in 10 business days. Unless the copyright owner files an action seeking a court order against the content provider, member or user, the removed material may be replaced or access to it restored in 10 to 14 business days after receipt of the counter-notice, at our discretion.

Repeat Infringers

We will terminate the accounts of users that are determined to be repeat infringers. A repeat infringer is a user who has been notified of infringing activity more than twice and/or has had material removed from the Website more than twice.