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DMCA Policy

DMCA Policy

What Is A Scratch Kitchen respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects its users to do the same. In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (the text of which can be found at the U.S. Copyright Office website, http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf), What Is A Scratch Kitchen will respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement committed using the What Is A Scratch Kitchen service and/or website (the "Site") if such claims are reported to What Is A Scratch Kitchen's Designated Copyright Agent.

Filing a DMCA Takedown Notice

If you are a copyright owner, or are authorized to act on behalf of one, please report alleged infringements occurring on or through the Site by completing the following DMCA Notice of Alleged Infringement and delivering it to What Is A Scratch Kitchen's Designated Copyright Agent. Upon receipt of such Notice as described below, What Is A Scratch Kitchen will take whatever action, in its sole discretion, it deems appropriate, including removal of the challenged material from the Site.

  1. Identify the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed, or if multiple copyrighted works are covered by this Notice, you may provide a representative list of the copyrighted works that you claim have been infringed.
  2. Identify the material that you claim is infringing (or to be the subject of infringing activity) 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, including at a minimum, if applicable, the URL of the link shown on the Site where such material may be found.
  3. Provide your mailing address, telephone number, and, if available, email address.
  4. Include both of the following statements in the body of the Notice:
    • "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 Notice 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."
  5. Provide your full legal name and your electronic or physical signature.

Deliver this Notice, with all items completed, to What Is A Scratch Kitchen's Designated Copyright Agent via our Contact Us page.

Filing a DMCA Counter-Notification

If you believe that your content that was removed (or to which access was disabled) is not infringing, or that you have the authorization from the copyright owner, the copyright owner's agent, or pursuant to the law, to post and use the material in your content, you may send a counter-notification containing the following information to What Is A Scratch Kitchen's Designated Copyright Agent.

  • Identify the content that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the content appeared before it was removed or disabled.
  • Provide a statement that you have a good faith belief that the content was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or a misidentification of the content.
  • Provide your name, address, telephone number, and email address.
  • Include the following statement: "I consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which my address is located, or if my address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which What Is A Scratch Kitchen may be found, and I will accept service of process from the person who provided notification of the alleged infringement."
  • Provide your full legal name and your electronic or physical signature.

Deliver this Counter-Notification, with all items completed, to What Is A Scratch Kitchen's Designated Copyright Agent via our Contact Us page.

For general inquiries, please visit our Contact Us page.