Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Notice

If you believe that material available on our sites, including those hosted at Beam.social, infringes on your copyright(s), please notify us by submitting a DMCA notice. After we receive a valid and complete notice, we will investigate, remove the material, and make a good faith attempt to contact the user who uploaded the material, via email.

Please note that we are unable to process DMCA notices that refer to sites hosted on third party servers.

Beam.social is a publishing platform where bloggers often use copyrighted materials in commentary or journalism, or transform the materials into something original. As such, before submitting a DMCA notice, its important to consider whether the material used falls underfair use. If you are not sure whether material located on a Beam.social site infringes on your copyright, or if it is subject to fair use protections, you should first consider seeking legal advice.

You may be liable for damages (including costs and attorneys fees) if you materially misrepresent that material or activity infringes on your copyright.

Your DMCA notice will be forwarded to the party that made the material available, and also may be sent to third parties such asLumenDatabase.org. A note will also be placed on the site in question detailing the name of the copyright owner who submitted the takedown notice. In addition, you are required to consider the possible fair use implications, as a result ofLenz v. Universal. We reserve the right to challenge abuses of the DMCA process, and your use of this form does not waive that right.

Please follow these steps to file a notice:

1. Verify that the blog in question is hosted by Interactiv. We have no control over blogs hosted on third party servers and are not hosted by us. Please contact the appropriate web host with complaints.


2. Contact the blogger directly. Go to the blog post in question and leave a comment with your complaint to see if the matter can be resolved directly between you and the blogger.


3. Send your complaint to our legal team, if the issue cannot be resolved directly with the blogger.

As required by the DMCA, we have a policy to terminate users and/or sites that we consider to be repeat infringers. Although we wont share the specifics of our repeat infringer policy, we believe that it strikes the right balance: it protects the rights of copyright owners and protects legitimate users from wrongful termination. Please note that notices that are successfully countered, rejected on fair use grounds, or deemed to be fraudulent are not counted against a user or site.

You can mail your complaint to our legal team:

Interactiv Corporation
PO Box 613104
San Jose, CA 95161

You must include the following:

• A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf;


• An identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed;


• A description of the nature and exact location of the material that you claim to infringe your copyright, in sufficient detail to permit Interactiv to find and positively identify that material. For example we require a link to the specific blog post (not just the name of the blog) that contains the material and a description of which specific portion of the blog post an image, a link, the text, etc. your complaint refers to;


• Your name, address, telephone number and email address;


• 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; and


• A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.