Copyright Violation
If you have found unauthorized reproduction
of your work on the internet and wish to stop the infringement of your
rights please complete and submit the form below.
1. On receipt of the
completed form we will check to satisfy ourselves that your claim to the
copyright is reasonable and that we can take your instruction to effect the
removal of the work from the offending internet site(s). Please understand
that we will not involve ourselves with frivolous or vengefully motivated
claims.
2. On removal of your
work from the offending site(s) we will advise you whether it is
commercially viable to sue the infringer for loss/damages. We regard
litigation commercially viable if our associate Lawyers will handle the
matter on the basis that their fees come from the infringer with no
contribution from the copyright owner. Please understand that our associate
Lawyers will not involve themselves in frivolous or vengefully motivated
litigation.
3. For this service
we charge a flat fee of £100. The money is used to pay our staff £10. per
hour time spent working on your account. All time spent is logged and if the
job is done in less than 10 hours the unused portion of the cash is placed
in a pool to cover instances when more that 10 hours are needed to get the
job done. On the successful completion of the job you will be advised
whether you are a 'cash pool' contributor or recipient. This is an extension
of a service we have been pleased to provide for authors who's work we have
published. If your work does not have an ISBN number
4. We would expect
your work to be removed from an offending site within 14 days from the day
of our acceptance of your instructions.
5. With regard to
multiple infringements. Usually it takes around the same time to deal with
multiple works on the same or multiple sites as it does to deal with one
work on one site. In certain instances of multiple works you may be
asked to identify clearly each work and its location. We can do this
for you but we need to charge a fee for the service.
6. If we fail to
effect the removal of the work from the offending internet site or fail to
have the majority of multiple works removed from the majority of multiple
offending sites then the fee is refunded in full. To date we have been
successful in causing to be removed 70+ instances of copyright violation
(literary works) within 8 days of taking action. That is a 100% success
rate.
7. If you answer Yes
to question 13. Get royalty payment. We will simply change our action from
'remove this material' to 'unless you pay the author (the figure mentioned
at 14.) then you must remove the offending material'. We do not, within the
remit of this agreement undertake to negotiate royalty payments on your
behalf.
8. If the work is not
registered with the US Copyright Office and does not have an ISBN number,
you must answer yes at question 12. I agree that my submitting this form
is my appointment of Babash Publishing as my duly authorized agent in
respect of the title(s) outlined in this form for the period: From the date
of submission of this form until I give notice by e-mail addressed to
copyright@babash.com or until my
dispute with the infringer(s) indicated in this form is settled or three
months from the date of my submission of this form.
This provision gives us the legal power to act
to stop the infringer on your behalf. We undertake here and now to confine
our activities as agent to matters strictly related to the particular
copyright issue mentioned in the form. And we undertake not to seek any
commercial or financial advantage for ourselves, directly or indirectly as a
consequence of our appointment as agents.
If you have questions after reading this and
examining the Violation Notice please e-mail
copyright@babash.com