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DMCA Policy

DMCA Policy

Michael Pilarczyk Podcast ("we," "us," or "our") 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), the text of which can be found on the U.S. Copyright Office website at http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf, we will respond promptly to claims of copyright infringement committed using the Michael Pilarczyk Podcast service or website (the "Service") if such claims are reported to our Designated Copyright Agent identified below.

Filing a DMCA Notice of Infringement

If you are a copyright owner, or are authorized to act on behalf of one, or authorized to act under any exclusive right under copyright, please report alleged copyright infringements taking place on or through the Service by completing a DMCA Notice of Alleged Infringement and delivering it to our Designated Copyright Agent. Upon receipt of a valid Notice, we will take whatever action, in our sole discretion, we deem appropriate, including removal of the allegedly infringing content from the Service.

  1. Identification of the copyrighted work: Provide a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed, or if multiple copyrighted works are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works.
  2. Identification of the infringing material: Provide a description of the material that you claim is infringing and where it is located on the Service. Please be specific enough to permit us to locate the material (e.g., URL of the specific podcast episode, timestamp within the episode, or specific page).
  3. Contact Information: Your address, telephone number, and email address.
  4. Statement of Good Faith Belief: A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use of the material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
  5. Accuracy Statement: A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.
  6. Electronic or Physical Signature: An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest.

DMCA Counter-Notification

If you believe that your content was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, you may send us a counter-notification. When we receive a valid counter-notification, we will forward it to the party who submitted the original DMCA notice. If the original complainant does not file a court action against you within 10-14 business days of receiving the counter-notice, we may restore the removed material.

  • Identification of the removed material: Identify 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 (e.g., URL).
  • Statement under Penalty of Perjury: A statement under penalty of perjury 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.
  • Your Contact Information: Your name, address, telephone number, and email address.
  • Consent to Jurisdiction: A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located, or if your address is outside of the U.S., for any judicial district in which Michael Pilarczyk Podcast may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original DMCA notification or an agent of such person.
  • Electronic or Physical Signature: Your electronic or physical signature.

For any DMCA related inquiries, please contact us via our Contact Page.