DMCA & Copyright Policy
Our approach to copyright
IAQABA is built on other people’s work being respected, because our own work depends on the same rule. We create our text, we license or create our images, and where we use material we did not make, we do so under a licence, with permission, or within the limits that copyright law allows for news reporting, criticism and comment. When we get that wrong, we want to hear about it quickly and we fix it quickly.
This page explains how we use third-party material, how to tell us if you believe something on the site infringes your rights, what we do when you tell us, and how you can use our work. It is written with the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act in mind because that is the framework most rights holders use, but we act on valid notices from any country.
How we use material we did not create
Quotations are short, attributed and used to report, analyse or criticise the thing quoted. Documents such as filings, rulings, papers and statements are described, quoted in part and linked to where they are public. Images are our own, licensed, supplied by the subject for editorial use, or used under the terms of a public licence with the credit that licence requires. Embedded videos and social posts are displayed through the host’s own embed tool, which leaves the material on the host’s servers and under the owner’s control.
Product images, logos, posters, cover art and screenshots appear to identify the thing being reported on. We do not use them for decoration, and we do not crop out credits or watermarks.
Notice of claimed infringement
If you own a copyright, or act for someone who does, and you believe material on iaqaba.com infringes it, send a notice to support@iaqaba.com with COPYRIGHT in the subject line. For the notice to be valid it must contain the following: identification of the copyrighted work you say is infringed; the address on our site of the material you want removed, precise enough for us to find it; your name, postal address, telephone number and email address; a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised by the owner, its agent or the law; a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act for the owner; and your physical or electronic signature.
Notices missing any of these elements will be answered with a request for the missing parts and will not be acted on until they are complete. Notices from a person who is not the owner or the owner’s agent cannot be accepted.
What happens when we receive a valid notice
We acknowledge the notice, usually within two business days. We locate the material and remove or disable access to it promptly, normally within a further two business days, while we assess the claim. If the material is part of a story, the story is amended and a note at the foot records that an image or passage was removed following a copyright notice. We notify whoever supplied the material, if it was supplied, and keep a record of the notice and what we did.
If our assessment is that the use was licensed or lawful, we will tell you why and may restore the material. We do not remove material in response to a notice that is plainly not about copyright, such as a complaint about the accuracy or tone of a story; those go through the corrections policy instead.
Counter-notification
If material you supplied or that you believe was lawfully used is removed following a notice, you may send a counter-notification to the same address. It must identify the material and where it appeared, state under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief it was removed by mistake or misidentification, include your name, address, telephone number and email, consent to the jurisdiction of a competent court where you are located for the purpose of resolving the dispute, and carry your signature. We forward valid counter-notifications to the original complainant and may restore the material after the period the law allows, unless the complainant tells us they have started court proceedings.
Misrepresentation
Knowingly sending a false notice or counter-notification can make you liable for the costs and damages that result, including legal fees. We keep every notice we receive. Notices that appear to be sent to suppress reporting rather than to protect a copyright are treated with particular care and may be published or referred to in our coverage.
Repeat infringers
The site does not host user-generated content, so the usual repeat-infringer provisions have little to attach to. If a contributor or supplier of material is found to have provided infringing work more than once, we stop accepting material from them. If a licence or agency turns out to have misrepresented its rights, we stop using it and say so where relevant.
Complaints that are not about copyright
Trademark concerns, privacy concerns, defamation claims and requests to remove a story about a person are not copyright matters and are not handled under this policy. Send them to support@iaqaba.com with LEGAL or PRIVACY in the subject line. The corrections policy explains how requests to remove or alter stories are decided, and the privacy policy explains your rights over personal data.
Using our work
You may link to any page on the site and quote short passages with attribution to IAQABA and a link to the original. You may not republish whole articles, substantial parts of them, or our images without written permission. Teachers, researchers and non-profit organisations who want to reproduce a story in full will usually get a yes if they ask; commercial republication is considered case by case. Requests go to support@iaqaba.com with LEGAL in the subject line, and we answer them in writing.
