Intellectual Property Policy
Throw Coast Disc Golf LLC have adopted the following general policies regarding the infringement of copyright and other intellectual property in accordance with general United States intellectual property laws and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the “DMCA” - which can be reviewed here ). Throw Coast Disc Golf will respond to notices in the form provided below from jurisdictions other than the United States.
Please contact Throw Coast Disc Golf LLC owners via e-mail at team@throwcoast.com (preferred method of contact) for any and all Notices and Counter Notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement. Throw Coast Disc Golf can also be contacted via mail at the following address: GT Business Design, P.O. Box 1572, Lealand, NC 28451, Attn: Legal Department. Throw Coast Disc Golf, owners are the designated agents to receive notifications of alleged intellectual property infringements on the Website.
Note that Throw Coast Disc Golf will terminate the rights of subscribers and account holders in appropriate circumstances if they are determined to be repeat infringers.
A. Reporting Infringements
Throw Coast Disc Golf respect the intellectual property of others and ask our users to do the same. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please provide team@throwcoast.com the following information in writing pursuant to the DMCA (Please review these requirements with your legal counsel and see Section 512(c)(3) of the Copyright Act) (the "Notice"):
- (a) an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or other intellectual property interest;
- (b) a specific description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim to be infringing (if you believe that multiple works or intellectual property have been infringed, please provide a list with a specific description of all such works or other intellectual property);
- (c) a specific description of where the material that you claim to be infringing is located; do include links to specific claims of infringement.
- (d) your address, telephone number, and email address;
- (e) a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright or intellectual property owner, its agent, or the law; and
- (f) a statement by you that the information in your Notice is accurate and a statement made under penalty of perjury that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or authorized to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner's behalf.
Once a proper bona fide infringement notification is received by Throw Coast Disc Golf owners (the designated agent for DMCA purposes), Throw Coast Disc Golf may remove or disable access to the material infringing upon the intellectual property. When removing or disabling access to such material, Throw Coast Disc Golf will make reasonable attempts to inform the allegedly infringing user of the removal and the reason for the removal and may provide the user with a copy of the notice and the notifying party’s contact information.
You acknowledge that if you fail to comply with all of the aforementioned Notice requirements in writing, your Notice may not be valid and that Throw Coast Disc Golf may ignore such incomplete or inaccurate notices without liability of any kind.
Under Section 512(f) of the Copyright Act, any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity is infringing or was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification may be subject to liability.
B. Responding to Infringements
If you believe that your work has been removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, please provide team@throwcoast.com with the following information in writing pursuant to the DMCA (Please review these requirements with your legal counsel and see Section 512(g)(3) of the Copyright Act) (the "Counter-Notice"):
- (a) a physical or electronic signature of the artist;
- (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 made under penalty of perjury that the artist has a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled; and
- (d) the artist's name, address, telephone number, and a statement that the artist consents to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which the address is located, or if the artist's address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which the service provider may be found, and that the artist will accept service of process from the person who provided notification under subsection (c)(1)(C) or an agent of such person.
Suppose a Counter-Notice is received by Throw Coast Disc Golf owners (the designated agents). In that case, Throw Coast Disc Golf may send a copy of the Counter-Notice to the original complaining party, informing such person that Throw Coast Disc Golf may replace the removed material or cease disabling it. Unless the copyright or intellectual property owners file an action seeking a court order against the allegedly infringing user in connection with the matter described to Throw Coast Disc Golf owners (the designated agents), the removed material may be replaced (or access to it restored) in approximately ten (10) business days after receipt of the Counter-Notice, in the sole discretion of Throw Coast Disc Golf Legal Department.
Thank you for paying attention to these requirements.