DMCA Copyright Policy for Texas Severe Weather
Texas Severe Weather ("we", "us", or "our") 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 (DMCA), the text of which may be found on the U.S. Copyright Office website at http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf, we will respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement committed using the Texas Severe Weather website or online services (the "Site") if such claims are reported to our Designated Copyright Agent identified below.
Filing a DMCA Notice of Infringement
If you are a copyright owner, or authorized to act on behalf of one, or authorized to act under any exclusive right under copyright, please report alleged copyright infringements taking place on or through the Site by completing the following DMCA Notice of Alleged Infringement and delivering it to our Designated Copyright Agent.
- Identify the copyrighted work: Provide sufficient detail regarding the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed. If multiple copyrighted works are covered by a single notification, you may provide a representative list of such works.
- Identify the infringing material: Identify the material that you claim is infringing (or 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 (e.g., URL(s) of the material on the Site).
- Provide your contact information: Include your mailing address, telephone number, and, if available, email address.
- Include a statement of good faith belief: State 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.
- Include an accuracy statement: State that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
- Sign the document: Provide a physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf.
Deliver this notice to our Designated Copyright Agent using the contact information provided on our Contact Us page.
DMCA Counter-Notification Procedure
If you believe that your material has been removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, you may file a counter-notification with us by submitting a written notification to our Designated Copyright Agent (see contact link below). Pursuant to the DMCA, the Counter-Notice must include the following:
- Identify the specific URLs or other unique identifying information of material that Texas Severe Weather has removed or to which Texas Severe Weather has disabled access.
- Provide your name, address, telephone number, and email address.
- Include 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 your address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which the service provider may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original DMCA notification or an agent of such person.
- Include the following statement: "I swear, under penalty of perjury, that I have a good faith belief that the material identified above was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled."
- Provide your physical or electronic signature.
Deliver this counter-notification to our Designated Copyright Agent using the contact information provided on our Contact Us page.