Bitcoin News Updates (accessible at https://bitcoinnewsupdates.com/) respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects its users to do the same. In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), we will respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement on our website that are properly reported to us.
1. Reporting Copyright Infringement (Notice)
If you believe that your copyrighted work has been copied, displayed, or used on Bitcoin News Updates in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide our Designated Copyright Agent with a written notice containing the following information:
- Your Physical or Electronic Signature: A physical or electronic signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
- Identification of the Work: A clear and detailed description of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed. If multiple works are covered by a single notification, you may provide a representative list.
- Identification of the Material: A clear description of where the infringing material is located on our site, including the specific URL(s) or post title(s) (e.g., “the article titled ‘BlackRock’s new product just made Ethereum revenue impossible to ignore'”). Providing this information is crucial for us to locate the material.
- Your Contact Information: Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as an email address, telephone number, or mailing address.
- Good Faith Statement: 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 the law.
- Accuracy Statement: A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
2. Submitting a DMCA Notice
Please send your DMCA notice to our Designated Copyright Agent at:
[Your Name/Company Name]
Attn: DMCA Copyright Agent
[Your Email Address]
[Optional: Your Physical Mailing Address]
Important: For efficiency, we strongly recommend submitting notices via email.
3. Counter-Notification (If Your Material Was Removed)
If you believe that material you posted on our site was removed or access to it was disabled by mistake or misidentification, you may file a counter-notification with our Designated Copyright Agent. To be effective, the counter-notification must be a written communication that includes substantially the following:
- Your Signature: Your physical or electronic signature.
- Identification of Removed Material: Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access was disabled (the specific URL is best).
- Statement Under Penalty of Perjury: A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.
- Your Contact Information: Your name, address, and telephone number.
- Consent to Jurisdiction: A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or if you are outside the United States, that you consent to jurisdiction of any judicial district in which Bitcoin News Updates may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original DMCA notice or an agent of such person.
4. Repeat Infringers
In accordance with the DMCA and other applicable laws, Bitcoin News Updates has adopted a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances and at our sole discretion, the accounts of users who are deemed to be repeat infringers. We may also, at our sole discretion, limit access to the site and/or terminate the accounts of any users who infringe any intellectual property rights of others, whether or not there is any repeat infringement.
5. Removal of Third-Party Content
We may remove content or suspend accounts based on a valid DMCA notice. However, please understand that we are a news publisher. Much of our content, such as reporting on topics like “Carbon DeFi, Governance, and Privacy” or “Top Privacy Coins Poised to Lead,” is original journalism or commentary. DMCA notices typically pertain to the unauthorized use of copyrighted images, videos, or large blocks of copied text, not to general ideas or news topics.
6. Contact
For all DMCA-related inquiries, please use the contact information provided in Section 2 above. Please do not send other inquiries or general questions about cryptocurrency to the DMCA agent.
