Copyright and DMCA
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BasketPrice answers copyright notices under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512). Most of the site is our own price record. The rest is Amazon product images and titles, shown under Amazon’s licence and loaded from Amazon’s servers, and the comments, ratings and suggestions readers post.
Where to send a notice
Email [email protected] with “DMCA” in the subject line, in English or French. By post: MonacoWebPix, C/o CATS, Le Forum, 28 Boulevard Princesse Charlotte, 98000 Monaco, Principality of Monaco.
What the notice must contain
Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), a notice we can act on includes:
- A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or of someone authorised to act for them.
- The copyrighted work you say is infringed.
- The material on this site you want removed, with its URL.
- Your name, postal address, telephone number and email.
- A statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
- A statement that the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner or are authorised to act for the owner.
What we do with it
We remove or disable the material first and weigh the arguments second. If a reader posted it, we tell them it was removed and forward your notice to them.
An Amazon product image is served from Amazon’s servers, not ours. We take the image off our page on notice; to have the file itself removed, Amazon needs to hear from you as well.
Counter-notice
If something you posted was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, send a counter-notice to the same address. Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3) it includes:
- Your physical or electronic signature.
- The material that was removed and where it appeared.
- A statement under penalty of perjury that you believe in good faith it was removed by mistake or misidentification.
- Your name, address and telephone number; your consent to the jurisdiction of the US Federal District Court for your address — or, outside the United States, any judicial district in which we may be found; and that you accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice.
We forward it to that person and restore the material 10 to 14 business days later, unless they tell us they have filed a court action to keep it down.
False notices
Knowingly claiming that material infringes, or that it was removed by mistake, when it does not or was not, makes you liable for the damages that follow, including costs and attorneys’ fees (17 U.S.C. § 512(f)).
Repeat infringers
An address whose posts draw repeated valid notices loses the ability to post here.
Trademarks
Brand names appear to identify products. For a trademark complaint, write to the same address with the mark, its registration number and the URL.