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DMCA Policy

DMCA Policy

Geelong Emergency Warning 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, Geelong Emergency Warning will respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement committed using the Geelong Emergency Warning service and/or website (the "Site") if such claims are reported to our Designated Copyright Agent identified below.

Filing a Notice of Copyright 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 Site by completing the following DMCA Notice of Alleged Infringement and delivering it to our Designated Copyright Agent.

  1. Identify the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed, or if multiple copyrighted works are covered by this Notice, you may provide a representative list of the copyrighted works that you claim have been infringed.
  2. Identify the material or link you claim is infringing (or the subject of infringing activity) and to which access is to be disabled, including at a minimum, if applicable, the URL of the link shown on the Site where such material may be found.
  3. Provide your mailing address, telephone number, and, if available, email address.
  4. Include both of the following statements in the body of the Notice:
    • "I hereby state that I have a good faith belief that the disputed use of the copyrighted material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law (e.g., as a fair use)."
    • "I hereby state that the information in this Notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that I am the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of the copyright or of an exclusive right under the copyright that is allegedly infringed."
  5. Provide your full legal name and your electronic or physical signature.

Filing a Counter-Notification

A user who believes that they are the wrongful subject of a DMCA Notice of Alleged Infringement may make a counter-notification by contacting us as described below. If Geelong Emergency Warning receives a counter-notification, we may, in our discretion, reinstate the material in question.

  • Identify the specific URLs or other unique identifying information of material that Geelong Emergency Warning has removed or to which Geelong Emergency Warning has disabled access.
  • Provide your name, address, telephone number, and email address.
  • State that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or if you reside outside the United States, for any judicial district in which Geelong Emergency Warning may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the initial DMCA notification or an agent of such person.
  • Include the following statement: "I swear, under penalty of perjury, that I have a good faith belief that the material identified above was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled."
  • Provide your full legal name and your physical or electronic signature.

Please send all DMCA notices and counter-notices to us via our contact page.