Intellectual Property Policy & Procedures
GAYBORHOOD.TV and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively "GAYBORHOOD.TV") process claims of copyright infringement in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, 17 U.S.C. § 512 et. seq ( the "DMCA"). The DMCA addresses the rights and obligations of owners of copyrighted material who believe that their rights under U.S. copyright law have been infringed on the Internet, as well as the rights and obligations of Internet Service Providers on whose servers infringing material may reside.
Notice and Takedown
Upon receipt of written notification provided in the manner required by 17 U.S.C. § 512, we will:
Act expeditiously to remove, or disable access to, the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity;
Forward the written notification to the alleged infringer ("Customer"); and
Take reasonable steps to promptly notify the Customer that we have removed or disabled access to the allegedly infringing material.
If you believe that your work has been copied, adapted, reproduced, or exhibited on a Web site operated by GAYBORHOOD.TV in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or that otherwise violates your intellectual property rights, and you would like GAYBORHOOD.TV to remove the allegedly infringing work from the GAYBORHOOD.TV Network, you must provide written notice of the claimed infringing activity to our designated agent.
Your notice must include substantially the following information:
Your physical or electronic signature.
Identification of the copyrighted 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.
Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material.
Your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address.
A statement that you have 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.
A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that you are the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed, or are authorized to act on the owner's behalf.
For more information please visit the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse.
Designation of Agent to Receive Notification of Claimed Infringement
GAYBORHOOD.TV’s designated agent to receive notification of claimed infringement is:
Hood, LLC
955 S. Virginia St., Suite 116
Reno, NV 89502
dmca@gayborhood.tv
Counter Notification
If you are a User who has received notice from us that material posted by you has been removed from our Web site following our receipt of a notice of claimed copyright infringement, and you are the owner of the allegedly infringing material or are otherwise authorized to use such material (including 'fair use'), you may provide written counter notification to our designated agent. Your counter notification must include substantially the following information:
Your physical or electronic signature;
Identification of the allegedly infringing material including the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled;
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;
Your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address; and
A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which you are located, or if your address is outside of the United States, of any judicial district in which We does business, and that you will accept service of process from the complaining party or his agent.
A utility to help you generate a counter-notification letter is available here.
Upon receipt of written counter notification provided in the manner required by 17 U.S.C. § 512, we will:
Promptly provide the person who provided the notification with a copy of the counter notification, and inform that person that we will replace the removed material or cease disabling access to it in 10 business days; and
Replace the removed material and cease disabling access to it not less than 10, nor more than 14, business days following receipt of the counter notification, unless our designated agent first receives notice from the person who submitted the notification that such person has filed an action seeking a court order to restrain the Customer from engaging in infringing activity relating to the material on GAYBORHOOD.TV's system or network. Please note that under federal law, if you knowingly make a material misrepresentation that online material is infringing, you may be subject to significant civil penalties including, but not necessarily limited to, monetary damages, court costs, and attorneys fees incurred by us, by any copyright owner, or by any copyright owner's licensee injured as a result of our relying upon your misrepresentation. Please also note that we cannot and do not judge the merits of your claim (or counterclaim). Accordingly, we will not remove, or disable access to, any allegedly infringing material, nor restore any material that has been so removed, except according to the procedure set forth herein.
Cancellation of Site Membership; Repeat Infringers
Users who have material removed in response to a notification of claimed infringement, and who do not assert that their use of the material removed was authorized (as evidenced by the filing of a counter notification), may, at our discretion, have their membership to the site cancelled.
Revised 1/10/2008
