How to Use, Understand and Benefit from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
May 7th, 2008 by 
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If you are a copyright owner and believe your work is being infringed, you can begin by sending notice to the infringer(s). There is no exact format for an effective DMCA notice letter, but there are statutory requirements for a DMCA letter to be valid notice to an infringer:
* A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
* Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed.
* Identification of the material claimed to be infringing.
* Contact information for the complaining party.
* A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of it is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
* 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.
A DMCA letter may look like this:
