Copyright policy

Civic Scope respects the intellectual property of others and we require our users to do the same.

If you believe that material to which you hold copyright has been posted on Civic Scope without your permission, you have several courses of action to choose from:

You can remove the material yourself. Civic Scope is a wiki that allows users to edit content. Included in “editing” is the ability to remove entire entries or portions of entries. To edit a page, click on the "Edit This Page!" button on the top navigation.

You may informally request that copyright material that you own be taken down from the site. To make such a request, send an email to info@civicscope.com. You must provide:

• Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed upon, or, if multiple copyrighted works are involved, a representative list of such works at the site.
• Identification of the material that you’re claiming is an infringement 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. (A URL, for example.)
• Your full name, mailing address, telephone number, and, if available, email address.
• Both of the following statements:
• “I hereby state that I have a good-faith belief that the disputed use of the copyrighted material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law (e.g. as a fair use).”
• “I hereby state that the information in this notification is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that I am the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of the copyright, or of an exclusive right under the copyright that is allegedly infringed.”
• Your full legal name and your electronic or physical signature.
  
  

You may formally request that copyright material you own be taken down from the site. To do so:

You may file a notification of such infringement with our Designated Copyright Agent as set forth below.

Civic Scope will respond expeditiously to notices of alleged infringement that are reported to Civic Scope’s Designated Agent. Contact Civic Scope’s Designated Agent as follows:

Designated Copyright Agent
Email: Info@civicscope.com

Information pertaining to Civic Scope’s Designated Agent can also be found at: http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/list/w_agents.html.

If you believe that your copyright has been infringed upon, please submit written notification to Civic Scope’s Designated Agent as specified above and include the following:

• Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed upon, 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 infringing material that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material.
• Your full name, mailing address, telephone number, and, if available, email address.
• Both of the following statements:
• “I hereby state that I have a good-faith belief that the disputed use of the copyrighted material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law (e.g. as a fair use).”
• “I hereby state that the information in this notification is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that I am the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of the copyright, or of an exclusive right under the copyright that is allegedly infringed.”
• Your full legal name and your electronic or physical signature.

Infringer policy:

In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the text of which may be found on the U.S. Copyright office website at http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf, and other applicable law, Civic Scope has adopted a policy of banning, in appropriate circumstances and at its sole discretion, users who are deemed to be repeat infringers.  Civic Scope may also at its sole discretion limit access to any website hosted by Civic Scope and/or terminate the accounts of any users who infringe upon any intellectual property rights of others, whether or not there is any repeat infringement.

Counter Policy

A poster of allegedly infringing material may make a counter-notification pursuant to Sections 512(g)(2) and 512(g)(3) of the DMCA.  When Civic Scope receives a counter-notification, it may in its sole discretion reinstate the material in question.  To provide a counter-notification, please submit written notification to Civic Scope’s Designated Agent as specified above and include the following:

• Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled by Civic Scope and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access was disabled.
• A statement as follows: “I hereby state, under penalty of perjury, that I have a good-faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake of misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.”
• Your full name, mailing address, telephone number, and, if available, email address.
• A statement as follows: “I hereby consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which my address is located or, if any address is outside the United States, for any judicial district in which Civic Scope may be found, and I will accept service of process from the complaining party who notified Civic Scope of the alleged infringement or an agent of such person.”
• Your full legal name and your electronic or physical signature.
  
  

Important note

Facts cannot be copyrighted, only their expression. That is, you cannot claim a Civic Scope article infringes your copyright just because it happens to cite the same facts as a text or page that you wrote; you may only claim if the text in the article was copied from your work without permission.