From the course: Copyright for Creatives: Protecting Your Work
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DMCA takedown notice
From the course: Copyright for Creatives: Protecting Your Work
DMCA takedown notice
- [Instructor] Some infringers of copyright will just ignore your emails, ignore cease and desist letters, ignore DMCA response letters. When that happens and the infringer has a website, you want to respond with a DMCA take down notice. If someone has infringed and isn't responding to your copyright demands, and won't return phone calls, emails, or letters, you can escalate your response by submitting a DMCA take down notice to the infringing party's web hosting company. This type of response was created by the DMCA, so it's the official format for dealing with an infringer who ignores your demands. It contains much of the same information as the DMCA response letter, but is meant to be provided to an infringer's hosting company and not the infringer specifically. You may be wondering, "How do you determine "who is hosting an infringer's website?" It's pretty easy. Just visit whoishostingthis.com, then type in the domain of the infringing party. This is how you'll discover who the…
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