Copyright Infringements: Godaddy Copyright Dispute for Your Dedicated Server Hosting

Godaddy Copyright Infringements: GoDaddy.com Copyright Claims Department sent to my friend an email titled Copyright Dispute for your Dedicated Server. So what to do? Why the websie administrator directly wrote to Godaddy Copyright Claims Department? My friend don’t read English and Godaddy cannot read Chinese. My friend asks me for help.

Copyright Dispute for Your Dedicated Server Hosting? I heard it for the first time in my life. So First of all, I read this email carefully and explain it to my friend. And it says:

We have received notification of copyright infringement(s) taking place on your Dedicated Server (resolving to IP address). It has come to our attention that the website found on this server contains material being displayed without the consent of the owner/copyright holder.

Copyright Infringements: Godaddy Copyright Dispute for Your Dedicated Server Hosting. This is a violation of your Hosting Services agreement (http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/legal_agreements/show_doc.asp?pageid=Dedicated+Hosting+SA), as well as your Domain Name Registration Agreement (http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/legal_agreements/show_doc.asp?pageid=REG%5FSA).  I have attached the original notification we received on this matter
as well to help you identify the problem.

This notification was submitted in harmony with the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act)and our Copyright and Trademark Dispute Policy. Please review GoDaddy’s Trademark and Copyright Policy found at https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/legal_agreements/copyright_trademark.asp.

In accordance to this policy, as well as your hosting agreement, we have suspended this hosting account until this matter can be resolved, or you submit a complete Counter Notification as described in the Copyright section of the policy.  You have 10 days to send a complete Counter notification in accordance with the policy.

PLEASE NOTE Godaddy Copyright Infringements: Copyright Dispute for Your Dedicated Server Hosting:

We are not a court, nor are we dictating who, if anyone, has the rights to the work(s) in question.  We are merely acting in accordance with the DMCA requirements for Hosting Providers.  If there is a dispute as to the ownership of the content, that should be addressed in a court of law.  As a result, situations, circumstances, and details do not usually need to be submitted to GoDaddy.com or it’s affiliates.

A list of the specific portions of your site in question are listed below.  For detailed questions, you will need to contact the Complainant at the address listed below.

Description of the Infringement(s) Complainant:

In order to resolve this situation and re-activate your site, you have 2
options.

Option 1. Remove the content in question.

In order to reactivate the site in question we will need you to provide the following information in a single email response:

A. An electronic signature. (This can be a scanned copy of your physical signature, or as simple as typing your full name.)
B. Identification of the material in question.
C. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the material has either been removed or will promptly be removed.

Option 2. Submit a complete Counter Notification on the works in question in accordance with our Copyright Dispute policy. (See Above)
You will need to reply, via email and include all of the following elements.

A.   An electronic signature of the Infringer. (This can be a scanned copy of ytour physical signature, or as simple as typing your full name.)
B. Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled.
C. A statement under penalty of perjury that the Infringer has a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.
D. The Infringer’s name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that the Infringer consents to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district of Arizona, or if the Infringer’s address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which Go Daddy may be found, and that the Infringer will accept service of process from the Complaining Party or an agent of such Party.

PLEASE NOTE: The term “The Infringer” is used for identification purposes only.  This is not an indication of any alleged guilt or innocence. If you have any further questions, please let us know.

Regards, GoDaddy.com Copyright Department

In this email attached a file from the website administrator. It reads as this:

I certify under penalty of perjury, that I am an agent authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the intellectual property rights and that the information contained in this notice is accurate.

I have a good faith belief that the page or material listed below is not authorized by law for use by the individual(s) associated with the identified page listed below or their agents and therefore infringes the copyright owner’s rights.

I HEREBY DEMAND THAT YOU ACT EXPEDITIOUSLY TO REMOVE OR DISABLE ACCESS TO THE PAGE OR MATERIAL CLAIMED TO BE INFRINGING.

This notice is sent pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the European Union’s Directive on the Harmonisation of Certain Aspects of Copyright and Related Rights in the Information Society (2001/29/EC), and/or other laws and regulations relevant in European Union member states or other jurisdictions. My contact information is as follows:

Godaddy Copyright Infringements: Godaddy Copyright Dispute for Your Dedicated Server Hosting. At last, actually my friend quotes a paragraph of an article from the web, and the web don’t want to be quoted. So the website owner or administrator notified the so-called Copyright Dispute or Copyright Infringements to Godaddy.com. At last we learn this news. Both my friend and me feel angry for this. Since the website administrator might have notified my friend directly and asked my friend to delete this quoted paragraph. But why he wrote to Godaddy Copyright Claims Department?