Altron

Copyright and takedown

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Altron respects copyright. This page explains how to tell us about material that infringes your copyright and what happens next. It follows the notice-and-takedown process in section 512 of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA, 17 U.S.C. 512), and we handle notices from any country in the same way.

1. How this service holds files

Altron is private. Files are kept encrypted in folders that only the people added to them can open, so we cannot search for your work and you usually cannot see it. To help us find the material, tell us as much as you can: the share link or web address where you found it, the folder path and file name, and the username of the person who put it there, if you know it.

2. Sending a notice

Send your notice to our designated agent, or use the report form.

To be a valid notice under the DMCA, it must include all of the following:

  1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, or of a person authorised to act on the owner's behalf.
  2. A description of the copyrighted work that you say has been infringed. If one notice covers several works on this service, give a representative list.
  3. A description of the material that you say is infringing, with enough information for us to find it (see section 1).
  4. Your contact details: your name, postal address, telephone number and, if you have one, email address.
  5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use of the material in the way complained of is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent or the law.
  6. A statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorised to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Be careful: under section 512(f) of the DMCA, anyone who knowingly and materially misrepresents that material is infringing can be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys' fees. If you are not sure that something infringes your copyright, consider getting legal advice before you send a notice.

3. What we do

When we receive a valid notice, we act quickly to remove the material or disable access to it, and we tell the account holder who put it there. The account holder may be given the details of the notice, including the name and contact details you gave in it. If a notice is incomplete, we may ask you for more information, or take no action on it.

4. Counter-notice

If you are the account holder and you believe that material was removed because of a mistake or because it was misidentified, you can send a counter-notice to our designated agent. It must include:

  1. Your physical or electronic signature.
  2. A description of the material that was removed, and where it was before it was removed.
  3. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief that the material was removed or disabled because of a mistake or misidentification.
  4. Your name, address and telephone number; a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the US federal district court for the district in which your address is located (or, if your address is outside the United States, any district in which we may be found); and a statement that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice, or that person's agent.

If we receive a valid counter-notice, we send a copy to the person who sent the original notice and tell them that we will restore the material. We restore it not less than 10 and not more than 14 business days after we receive the counter-notice, unless that person first tells us that they have started a court action to stop you from using the material.

5. Repeat infringers

We keep track of the valid notices we receive about each account. In appropriate circumstances we end the accounts of people who repeatedly infringe copyright. There is no fixed number of notices: we decide case by case, taking counter-notices and the circumstances into account.

6. Other reports

For abuse that is not a copyright claim, see the Acceptable Use Policy and use the report form.

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