Complaint Notice Procedures for Copyright Owners
A notice of alleged copyright infringement delivered to the Designated Agent must include the following:
(i) A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an
exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
(ii) Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted
works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at
that site.
(iii) Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be 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 Benetech to locate the material.
(iv) Information reasonably sufficient to permit Benetech to contact the complaining party, such as an
address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may
be contacted.
(v) A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief, and the reasons for that belief, that
use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the
law.
(vi) A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that
the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly
infringed.
Failure to include all of the above information may result in a delay of the processing of the DCMA
notification.
