Copyright Policy

Open Cul­ture, LLC (“Open Cul­ture,” “we” or “us” or “our”) respects artist and con­tent own­er rights. It is our pol­i­cy to ful­ly respond and com­ply with all alleged infringe­ment notices that com­ply with the Dig­i­tal Mil­len­ni­um Copy­right Act of 1998 (“DMCA”) by tak­ing such mate­r­i­al down for our site.

Please note that Open Cul­ture does not pro­duce or host any of the audio or video appear­ing on the site. Such mate­r­i­al is pro­duced and host­ed by third par­ty providers, and those providers should be con­tact­ed under the same DMCA pro­vi­sions.

If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that con­sti­tutes copy­right infringe­ment and is acces­si­ble via the Ser­vice, please noti­fy our copy­right agent as set forth in the DMCA.  For your com­plaint to be valid under the DMCA, you must pro­vide us with the fol­low­ing infor­ma­tion in writ­ing:

1.  An elec­tron­ic or phys­i­cal sig­na­ture of a per­son autho­rized to act on behalf of the copy­right own­er;

2.  Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of the spe­cif­ic copy­right­ed work that you claim has been infringed;

3.  Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of the spe­cif­ic mate­r­i­al that is claimed to be infring­ing and where it is locat­ed on the Ser­vice;

4.  Infor­ma­tion rea­son­ably suf­fi­cient to per­mit Open Cul­ture to con­tact you, such as your address, tele­phone num­ber, and, e‑mail address;

5.  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 law; and

6.  A state­ment, made under penal­ty of per­jury, that the above infor­ma­tion is accu­rate, and that you are the copy­right own­er or are autho­rized to act on behalf of the own­er.

The above infor­ma­tion must be sub­mit­ted to the fol­low­ing DMCA Agent via email at the fol­low­ing email address:

ma**@op*********.com

NOTE: Please put “DMCA” in the sub­ject line of the email.

UNDER FEDERAL LAW, IF YOU KNOWINGLY MISREPRESENT THAT ONLINE MATERIAL IS INFRINGING, YOU MAY BE SUBJECT TO CRIMINAL PROSECUTION FOR PERJURY AND CIVIL PENALTIES, INCLUDING MONETARY DAMAGES, COURT COSTS, AND ATTORNEYS’ FEES.

Please note that this pro­ce­dure is only the noti­fy­ing pro­ce­dure for Open Cul­ture and its affil­i­ates that your copy­right­ed mate­r­i­al has been infringed.  The pre­ced­ing require­ments are intend­ed to com­ply with our oblig­a­tions under the DMCA, includ­ing 17 U.S.C. §512©, but do not con­sti­tute legal advice.  It may be advis­able to con­tact an attor­ney regard­ing your rights and oblig­a­tions under the DMCA and oth­er applic­a­ble laws.

In fur­ther com­pli­ance with the DMCA and oth­er applic­a­ble law, Open Cul­ture reserves the right to ter­mi­nate, in appro­pri­ate cir­cum­stances, Users who are deemed to be repeat infringers. Open Cul­ture may also at its sole dis­cre­tion lim­it access to the Ser­vice and/or ter­mi­nate the accounts of any Users who infringe any intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty rights of oth­ers, whether or not there is any repeat infringe­ment.