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You agree not to upload, post or otherwise make available on the ASPCA Blog any material protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right without the express permission of the owner of the copyright, trademark or other proprietary right. You agree and acknowledge that you have the burden of determining whether any material is or is not protected by copyright. By submitting material, you grant (or warrant that the owner of such material has expressly granted to the ASPCA) the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate and distribute such material (in whole or in part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or hereafter developed for the full term of any copyright that may exist in such material. You also permit any other user of the ASPCA Blog to access, view, store or reproduce the material for that user’s personal use. You grant the ASPCA the right to edit, copy, publish and distribute any material made available to us by you.
The ASPCA has the right, but not the obligation, to monitor the content posted on the ASPCA Blog to determine compliance with our Terms of Use and/or to satisfy any law, regulation or government request. The ASPCA has the right in its sole discretion to edit, refuse to post or remove any material submitted to or posted on the ASPCA Blog including, but not limited to, material that is unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, invasive of another’s privacy, potentially harmful to minors, obscene, pornographic, graphic, includes profanity, flames others, or otherwise objectionable.
If you believe your content has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, we have a policy that provides for the termination in appropriate circumstances of users who infringe the rights of copyright holders if you provide our Copyright Agent with the following information required by the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. 512:
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A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
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Identification of the copyright work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;
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Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material;
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Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party;
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A statement that the complaining party has a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
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A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
Copyright Agent (Development Dept.)
424 E. 92nd Street
New York, NY 10128
Phone: (212) 876-7700
Fax: (212) 860-3560
Email: website@aspca.org
Updated May 14, 2008