Copyright / DMCA Policy
How to report claimed copyright infringement, and how we respond.
ProtectedPets respects intellectual-property rights and responds to valid notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 17 U.S.C. § 512. Note that the underlying public records we present are generally government records; this policy concerns claims of copyright in material on the Service.
Note: a correction or removal request about the accuracy of a record, or about a sealing/expungement/mistaken identity, is not a copyright matter — please use our correction and removal process for those.
Submitting a takedown notice
If you believe material on the Service infringes your copyright, send a written notice to our designated agent that includes all of the following (per 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)):
- A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf.
- Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed.
- Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing, with enough detail (e.g., the URL) for us to locate it.
- Your contact information — name, address, telephone number, and email.
- A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
- A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on their behalf.
Designated agent
Send notices to our DMCA designated agent:
[DMCA Agent name]
Pagani Enterprises LLC
[mailing address]
Email: [dmca@protectedpets.org]
[Counsel/ops to designate the agent and, if applicable, register the agent with the U.S.
Copyright Office DMCA Designated Agent Directory before launch.]
Counter-notification
If material you posted was removed and you believe that was a mistake or misidentification, you
may submit a counter-notification to the designated agent including: your signature;
identification of the removed material and its prior location; a statement under penalty of
perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed by mistake or
misidentification; your name, address, and telephone number; and your consent to the
jurisdiction of the federal court for your district (or, if outside the U.S.,
[district]), and acceptance of service of process from the complaining party.
Repeat infringers
We will, in appropriate circumstances and at our discretion, disable or terminate access for users who are repeat infringers.