The hosting service of my blog "******* Scams" received a DCMA Take-Down Request from Vitaliy Sokolov. Under the DCMA, the host could be required to delete the content. Since my content, including images of the *******s website and of Vitaliy himself, is considered fair use.

Here's the email:

From: "Fenton - WordPress.com" <dmca@automattic.com>
Date: August 1, 2017 at 1:34:25 PM EDT
To: mikephone5215@gmail.com
Subject: [DMCA #3349901]: DMCA takedown notice received for your WordPress.com site
Reply-To: dmca@automattic.com

Hi there,

We have received a DMCA notice (https://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/...bility/IP#dmca) for material published on your WordPress.com site.

Normally this would mean that we'd have to disable access to the material. However, because we believe that this instance falls under fair use protections, we will not be removing it at this time.

Section 107 of US copyright law identifies various purposes for which the reproduction of a particular work may be considered fair, such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. You can learn more about that here:

https://en.support.wordpress.com/fair-use/
http://www.copyright.gov/title17
http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html

While we believe that your use of the material is protected (we have fought for our users in similar cases in the past - http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/9/817...-pride-uk-case ), please keep in mind that the complainant may choose to continue to pursue this matter, perhaps directly with you. If you would prefer, you are still able to delete the content from your site yourself.

The notice we received from the complainant follows.


ā€” BEGIN NOTICE ā€”
irst name: vitaliy
Last name: sokolov
Company name: *******
Address: 27 croft place
City: Staten Island
State/Region/Province: NY
ZIP: 10314
Country: United States (US)
Phone number: 877-628-8665
Email address: vitaliy@*******.com

Copyright holder: ******* inc

Location of unauthorized material:
https://*******scam.wordpress.com/20...new-ebay-scam/
https://*******scam.wordpress.com/20...tter-bull****/

Location of original materials:
*****************

and www.youtube.com/*******

Description of original materials:
first link has copyrighted video

copyrighted images form our website *****************

I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above as allegedly infringing is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
I acknowledge that a copy of this infringement notice and any correspondence related to it, including any contact information I provided above (address, telephone number, and email address), will be forwarded to the user who uploaded the content at issue.

Digital signature: vitaliy sokolov
Signed on: 2017-08-01 17:16:41

ā€” END NOTICE ā€”


Regards,
Fenton

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