DMCA and Copyright Policy

1. Policy

We respect copyright and expect the same of everyone who submits content here. If you believe material on this site infringes your copyright, send a notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. 512) to the designated agent below, and we will remove or disable access to infringing material promptly.

2. Designated agent

Notices go to the designated copyright agent for americanlawyersdirectory.com:

The bracketed fields will be completed when the agent registration is filed with the U.S. Copyright Office's DMCA Designated Agent Directory, which is required for the section 512 safe harbor. Until then, email is the working channel.

3. What a takedown notice must contain

Under 17 U.S.C. 512(c)(3), your notice must include:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act for them.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed.
3. Identification of the infringing material and its location on this site (the URL).
4. Your contact information: name, address, telephone number, and email address.
5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner.

4. Counter-notice

If your content was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you may send a counter-notice containing your signature, identification of the removed material and where it appeared, a statement under penalty of perjury of your good-faith belief the removal was a mistake, your name, address, and phone number, your consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for your district (or any district where we may be found, if you are outside the United States), and a statement that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice or their agent. Unless the complaining party files a court action, removed material may be restored in 10 to 14 business days after a valid counter-notice.

5. Repeat infringers

Accounts or claimed listings that repeatedly infringe copyright will be terminated. This policy is applied in appropriate circumstances at our discretion, as the safe harbor requires.

6. Bad-faith notices

There are legal and financial consequences for fraudulent or bad-faith submissions. Under 17 U.S.C. 512(f), anyone who knowingly misrepresents that material is infringing, or that it was removed by mistake, can be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys' fees.