1. Date
Address
Re: Demand for Immediate Take Down * Notice of Infringing Activity
Dear Site Operator:
(PUBLISHER) has discovered that your website is illegally posting and/or offering unlicensed copies
of copyrighted material owned by (PUBLISHER) and its authors. We are a not-for-profit
organization, but must sustain our mission of providing quality material by controlling the
distribution and receiving payment for our publications and our authors are, of course, are entitled
to royalty payments on copies of their books. In addition to our traditional business of providing
printed materials, we have increasingly offered our titles electronically with the intention of
satisfying a broader market. We are happy to discuss possible licensing arrangements with you,
but we cannot countenance the unauthorized reproduction or other distribution of our titles.
Accordingly, please note that this is a legal notice to take down infringing material under the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
The copyrighted works:
Book(s): [Insert description by title, author]
Copyright owner: [Insert id whether the author is named holder]
Infringing material or activity:
All or portions (exceeding fair use) and all offers for reproduction of the identified copyrighted
work(s) found at the following location [Insert specific page of URL]
Contact Information
[Insert the name, phone and fax number(s) and address of person to be contacted at the Press]
Statement of authority:
I hereby certify under penalty of perjury that the information in this notice is accurate and that I am
authorized to act on behalf of [the author] and [PUBLISHER], the owner of the copyrights in the
work(s) identified above. I have a good faith belief that none of the materials or activities listed
above has been authorized by [PUBLISHER], its authors or any of their agents, or the law.
We hereby request that you take expeditious action to remove or disable access to the material
described above, and thereby prevent the unauthorized distribution of these book(s) via your
website or network.
Please understand that this letter is being sent to you as part of a legal process to assert our legal
rights. You can put an immediate stop to this process by acting in accordance with this offer of
good faith.
We appreciate your cooperation in this matter. Please advise us regarding what actions you take.