Copyright and DMCA

The Elite Officer respects copyright. We respond to notices of claimed infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. §512) and we remove or disable access to material that is the subject of a valid notice.

How to submit a takedown notice

Send your notice to our designated agent, below. To be effective under 17 U.S.C. §512(c)(3), a written notice must include all six of the following:

1. Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed. If your notice covers several works on this site, a representative list of those works is enough.
2. Identification of the material you say is infringing, with enough detail for us to locate it — a direct URL to the article or image is the fastest route.
3. Your contact details: name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
4. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use of the material is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
5. A statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or are authorised to act on the owner’s behalf.
6. Your physical or electronic signature. A typed name at the end of an email counts as an electronic signature.

An incomplete notice may not trigger the protections of the statute, and we may ask you for the missing element before acting. Knowingly misrepresenting that material is infringing can make you liable for damages and costs under 17 U.S.C. §512(f).

Designated agent

Notices of claimed infringement go to:

Our designated agent details are being finalised. Until they are published here, send takedown notices and counter-notifications to legal@theeliteofficer.com, with “DMCA Notice” in the subject line. Notices sent to that address are treated as received on the day they arrive.

What we do with a notice

When we receive a valid notice we remove or disable access to the material, usually within a few business days. We tell the person who posted it what was removed and send them a copy of the notice, and we tell them they can file a counter-notification.

Counter-notification

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you may send a counter-notification to the agent above. It must include:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material that was removed and the location where it appeared before removal.
3. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
4. Your name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the district where your address is located — or, if your address is outside the United States, for any district in which we may be found — and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice.

We forward a valid counter-notification to the complainant. Unless they tell us within 10 business days that they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the activity, we restore the material. Restoration normally happens between 10 and 14 business days after we receive your counter-notification. Filing a counter-notification in bad faith carries the same §512(f) exposure as filing a bad-faith notice.

Repeat infringers

We terminate the accounts of subscribers and contributors who are repeat infringers. We record each valid notice against the account that posted the material; an account that accumulates repeated valid notices is terminated, and we may terminate an account on a single notice where the infringement is flagrant. Terminated accounts lose access to the platform and to any published contributions. Counter-notified material that is restored does not count against an account.

Contact

Questions about this policy, permission requests, and licensing enquiries: legal@theeliteofficer.com. Please use a takedown notice, not this address, if you are asking us to remove material.