Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Notice

If you believe that material available on our sites infringes on your copyright(s), please notify us by providing a DMCA notice. Upon receipt of a valid and complete notice, we will remove the material and make a good faith attempt to contact the user who uploaded the material by email.

It's important to consider if the manner in which the material is used falls under fair use. If you are not sure whether material located on a Known site infringes your copyright, or if it is subject to fair use protections, you should first consider seeking legal advice.

Your DMCA notice will be forwarded to the party that made the material available, and also may be sent to third parties such as ChillingEffects.org.

Follow these steps to file a notice:

  1. Check that the site is hosted on withknown.com. (We have no control over sites running on the self-hosted Known platform elsewhere.)
  2. Contact the site owner. Leave a comment or connect with them elsewhere in order to resolve the matter directly with the site owner.
  3. Send your complaint to us via the form below, if the issue cannot be resolved directly with the site owner.

As required by the DMCA, we have a policy to terminate users and/or sites that we consider to be repeat infringers. 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.

DMCA Notice Form:

  • Last Name
  • Company Name
  • Address
  • City
  • State/Region/Province
  • Country (select from provided options)
  • Zip / Postal Code
  • Phone Number
  • Email Address
  • Copyright holder you represent (if other than yourself)
  • Location (URL) of the unauthorized material on a WordPress.com site
  • Description of the copyrighted work
  • Location of copyrighted work
  • URL of the third-party link (if applicable)

I have a good faith belief that the 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, including any contact information I provided above, will be forwarded to the user who uploaded the content at issue.

  • Signature (typing your full name will act as your digital signature, which is legally binding)