DMCA POLICY

It is our policy to respond to clear notices of alleged copyright infringement. This page describes the information that should be present in these notices. It is designed to make submitting notices of alleged infringement to Citywide Information as straightforward as possible while reducing the number of notices that we receive that are fraudulent or difficult to understand or verify. The form of notice specified below is consistent with the form suggested by the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the text of which can be found at the U.S. Copyright Office Web Site, http://www.copyright.gov) but we will respond to notices of this form from other jurisdictions as well.

Regardless of whether we may be liable for such infringement under local country law or United States law, our response may include removing or disabling access to material claimed to be the subject of infringing activity and/or terminating subscribers. If we remove or disable access in response to such a notice, we may notify the owner or administrator of the affected site or content so that he or she can make a counter notification. It is also our policy to document all notices of alleged infringement on which we act, including by sending a copy of the notice to one or more third parties or making it available to the public. You can see an example of such a publication at http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/notice.cgi?NoticeID=861.

IMPORTANT: Misrepresentations made in your notice regarding whether material or activity is infringing may expose you to liability for damages (including costs and attorneys' fees). Courts have found that you must consider copyright defenses, limitations or exceptions before sending a notice. In one case involving online content, a company paid more than $100,000 in costs and attorneys fees after targeting content protected by the U.S. fair use doctrine. Accordingly, if you are not sure whether material available online infringes your copyright, we suggest that you first contact an attorney.

Citywide Information DMCA Compliance Information

The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf effectively classifies all companies who maintain websites, blogs or chat rooms as ″online service providers″ with respect to third parties who post or upload content to the website or blog. Although many companies do not consider themselves ″online service providers,″ the DMCA broadly defines the term to include any entity that permits third parties to post content if that entity controls the website. Citywideinformation.com complies with the registered agent requirements set forth in the 1998 DMCA. Our registered agent for service is Law Offices of Timothy Walton 9515 Soquel Dr., Suite 207 Aptos, CA 95003. Notifications of potentially infringing material can be sent to our registered agent at the address above.