DMCA and Copyright Policy

Plain-language summary; the legal text governs if the two ever differ.

What is this?

This is the everyday version of our DMCA and Copyright Policy for jdswebservice.com. It explains how you tell us about copyright infringement on our site or on a client site we host, what we do with a report, and how a person answers back if their material was taken down by mistake. The formal legal version is the one that counts if the two ever say different things.

The short version

If you believe something on jdswebservice.com or on a site we host for a client uses your work without permission, report it at jdswebservice.com/dmca/report or email [email protected]. You get a Report ID right away and a copy of everything you sent. We review reports in the order they come in, and for a complete, valid report we remove the material or switch off access to it quickly, on our site or the client's site, and tell the client. If your material was removed by mistake, email a counter-notification; we pass it to the person who reported you, and unless they show us a filed court action first, we put the material back between 10 and 14 business days after we get it. Report details are shared only with the people who handle them.

Who we are

• "JD's Web Service" is a sole proprietorship in Pennsylvania that runs jdswebservice.com. We say "we," "us," and "our."
• We are the designated agent for copyright notices about our site and about the client sites we host or manage.
• We take copyright reports about our own site and about client sites. Other kinds of complaints (trademark, misuse, abuse) go to [email protected] instead.

How to report copyright infringement

The report form is the main door: jdswebservice.com/dmca/report.

• First you pick the target: "JD's Web Service Website" (our site) or "A Website Owned by a JD's Web Service Client" (with that website's address).
• Then you list the exact address (URL) of each piece of material you believe is infringing, one field per address, with an add-another button. You can list up to 25, and no duplicates.
• The form asks how you relate to the copyright owner: you are the owner, or you are authorized to act for the owner.
• The form asks for your full legal name, your company (optional), your email, your phone, and your mailing address.
• It asks what the copyrighted work is, links to the original work (optional), and anything else you want to add (optional).
• You can attach up to five private files (JPG, JPEG, PNG, or PDF, up to 5 MB each). They are stored privately and nobody outside our handling can view them. More proof can follow by email.
• Last: three statements you confirm, and your full legal name typed in as your electronic signature. The typed name must match the full legal name you gave the form (case and extra spacing are forgiving at the server check).

When you submit, you get a Report ID (a unique reference) on the receipt page and a confirmation email with a full summary of your report. That email does not promise a review time. Details of your report are shared only with the people who handle it.

What has to be in the report

The copyright law behind this form (Section 512(c)(3) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act) needs:

• Your electronic signature: the typed full legal name.
• Which work was copied (or a representative list if there are several works in one spot).
• Which material is infringing, with its exact address (URL) so we can find it.
• How to contact you: name, mailing address, phone, and email.
• That you honestly believe the use is not allowed by the copyright owner, the owner's agent, or the law.
• That what you wrote is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner.

The form collects every one of these. An email notice should contain the same information.

One caution both ways: the law says a person who knowingly lies about infringement (or about a mistake) can be made to pay damages, including costs and attorneys' fees. Report the truth.

Example: You own a photo and find it used on a client site we host, without permission. You pick "A Website Owned by a JD's Web Service Client," paste the client site's address, add the exact URL of the page with your photo, describe the photo, confirm the statements, and type your name. You get a Report ID in the email, and we take it from there.

If you send email instead of the form

• Email to [email protected] works the same as the form when the notice has the same information.
• The email route joins the same pipeline: a Report ID, the same confirmation, the same handling. The form is faster, but the law does not require the form.

What we record and who sees it

• We keep the report record: what the report says, any attachments, the date and time it was submitted, and the IP address of the person who submitted.
• Why the IP address: to keep the notice process honest.
• Who sees it: only the people who handle the report. It never shows up in public and it never appears in your confirmation email.
• Your personal information in the report is handled under our Privacy Policy.

What happens after we get a report

• We review complete reports in the order we receive them.
• If something is missing, we can email you for the missing pieces. A report is not acted on while incomplete.
• For a complete, valid report we remove the material or disable access to it expeditiously (quickly, and with a reasonable pace for the facts at issue).

Telling the affected client

• If a report names material on a client's website and we act or review it seriously, we tell that client by email: which URLs were named and what is being asked of them.
• The client counts as one of "the people who handle it." We do not give the client your contact information unless the law requires it or you say yes.

If material is taken down repeatedly

• We keep a repeat-infringer policy: where the same person's site draws repeated valid reports, or shows a pattern, we take steps: we tell the client, we turn off the material, and where the pattern warrants it we end the service.
• How a suspension or ending works for a client (and anything attached to it) is governed by the signed agreement that client has with us.

If your material was taken down

Email a counter-notification to [email protected]. It should carry:

• Your typed name as your signature.
• What was removed, and where it was before (the URL).
• A statement under penalty of perjury that you honestly believe it was removed by mistake or misidentification.
• Your name, mailing address, and phone number.
• Your consent to a United States federal court's jurisdiction (a court in the district where we are, or where you live if you live outside the United States), and your agreement to accept court papers from the person who reported you.

What we do with it:

• A complete counter-notification is forwarded to the person who sent the report.
• Then we restore the material (or stop disabling it) no less than 10 and no more than 14 business days after we receive it, unless the reporting person first tells us they have filed a court action to restrain you.
• If that notice comes first, the material stays down until a court decides or you settle.

Example: Your text was removed on April 1 and you believe it was an error. You email the counter-notification on April 5 with everything above. We pass it to the reporter. If they take no court action, your material is back online no later than 14 business days after April 5; it may come back as early as 10.

How long we keep reports

• Report records and their attachments are kept while they matter to the report process and any dispute about it.
• There is no automatic deletion timer.
• You can ask us to delete a report under our Privacy Policy's deletion route: the contact form with a short "privacy request" note. Then we delete it.
• Anything connected to a client's signed agreement follows that agreement.

Do I still pay during a takedown?

• Yes. A takedown, a disablement, or a repeat-infringer action does not pause or reduce the fees a client owes under their signed agreement. Payment and cancellation mechanics stay with that agreement alone.

Rules of the road

• Pennsylvania law governs this policy.
• A dispute about the subject of this policy goes to good-faith mediation, and if it is still open after 60 days, to the state courts in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
• The court-jurisdiction consent inside a counter-notification is the sender's own promise, made by that sender.
• Real service disputes between us and a client stay under the signed agreement, which controls.

Changes and related documents

• We can change this policy at any time, and it takes effect the moment we post it. That is the same rule all our legal documents use.
• Related: our Terms of Service (jdswebservice.com/terms) point copyright complaints here, and our Privacy Policy (jdswebservice.com/privacy) governs the personal information in reports.

Contact

• Report copyright infringement: jdswebservice.com/dmca/report.
• Email routes: [email protected] (notices, extra proof, counter-notifications).
• Everything else about this policy: [email protected].