DMCA and Copyright

We respect the rights of authors and publishers. If you hold the copyright to a work, or are authorised to act for the person who does, and you believe material on We Tried TLS infringes it, send us a notice as described below. We respond to notices under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512) and similar laws elsewhere.

Filing a notice

Your notice must be in writing and include:

• a physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or of a person authorised to act for them;
• the copyrighted work you believe is infringed (or, for several works, a representative list);
• the material you believe infringes it, with enough detail for us to find it: the links to the series, chapter, comment or review pages;
• your name, postal address, telephone number and e-mail address;
• a statement that you believe in good faith that the use of the material is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent or the law;
• a statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner or authorised to act for the owner.

When we receive a complete notice, we remove or disable access to the material promptly and reply by e-mail. If a reader posted it (a comment, a review or a profile), we tell them it was removed and send them a copy of the notice. If a notice is missing something, we tell you what to add.

Counter-notice

If material you posted was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you can send a counter-notice. It must include:

• your physical or electronic signature;
• the material that was removed and where it appeared before it was removed;
• a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you believe in good faith the material was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification;
• your name, address and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district where your address is (or, if your address is outside the United States, any judicial district in which we may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice or their agent.

We send the counter-notice to the person who filed the original notice. Unless they tell us within 10 business days that they have filed a court action to keep the material down, we may restore it 10 to 14 business days after we received the counter-notice.

Repeat infringers

In appropriate circumstances we close the accounts of readers who repeatedly post material that infringes someone else's copyright. Closing accounts that break the rules is covered in the Terms of Service.

False claims

Anyone who knowingly misrepresents that material is infringing, or that it was removed by mistake, may be liable for damages under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f). If you are not sure whether a use infringes your rights, consider asking a lawyer before you send a notice.

Where to send notices

E-mail notices and counter-notices to [email protected] with “DMCA” in the subject line. Our postal address for legal notices is available on request at the same address. For anything else, see the Contact page.