DMCA Policy

This DMCA Policy is a starting draft. To rely on the DMCA safe harbor in 17 U.S.C. § 512(c), you must register a designated agent with the U.S. Copyright Office at copyright.gov/dmca-directory. Posting this page alone is not sufficient.

BlackEvents.us (the “Site”) respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects users to do the same. We respond to clear notices of alleged copyright infringement in accordance with the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the “DMCA”).

1. How to submit a takedown notice

If you are a copyright owner (or an authorized agent) and believe material on the Site infringes your copyright, please send a written notice to our Designated Agent (Section 4 below) that includes all of the following:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or authorized agent.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed (or, if multiple works, a representative list).
3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing, with information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate it — typically the URL on the Site.
4. Your contact information, including name, address, telephone number, and email address.
5. 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.
6. A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on the owner’s behalf.

Incomplete notices may be ignored. Filing a knowingly false or materially misleading notice may subject you to liability under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f).

2. What we will do

On receipt of a valid notice, we will remove or disable access to the allegedly infringing material expeditiously, notify the user who submitted it, and forward the notice to that user. We may also terminate the accounts of users who are repeat infringers.

3. Counter-notices

If you believe your material was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to our Designated Agent that includes all of the following:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material that has been removed and the location at which it appeared before removal.
3. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
4. Your name, address, and telephone number, and 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 outside the U.S., the federal district court in which we may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the original complainant or its agent.

On receipt of a valid counter-notice, we may forward it to the original complainant and restore the material in 10–14 business days unless the complainant notifies us that they have filed a court action seeking a restraining order against the user.

4. Designated Agent

Send DMCA notices and counter-notices through our contact page with the subject line “DMCA Notice” or “DMCA Counter-Notice.” Include all of the information required in Section 1 or Section 3 in the message body.

Note: registering an agent with the U.S. Copyright Office requires a dedicated email address, a physical mailing address, and a phone number. Those details will be added here once the agent designation is filed at copyright.gov/dmca-directory. Until the filing is complete, this page alone does not establish DMCA safe harbor.

5. Repeat-infringer policy

We will terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users we determine to be repeat infringers.

6. Other intellectual property concerns

For trademark complaints, right-of-publicity concerns, or other intellectual property issues that are not copyright-related, please use our contact page with the subject line “IP Concern” and include a description of the concern and the URL(s) involved.