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Reporting Copyright Infringement

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, signed into law on October 28, 1998, amended the copyright law to provide limitations for service provider liability relating to material online. Subsection 512(c) of the copyright law provides limitations on service provider liability with respect to information residing, at direction of a user, on a system or network that the service provider controls or operates, if the service provider has designated an agent for notification of claimed infringement by providing contact information to the Copyright Office and through the service provider's publicly accessible website. 17 U.S.C. 512(c).

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• A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
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