Copyright Policy

In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (1998), Bits N Bones will respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement committed using the Bits N Bones Gaming website (the "Site") or Bits N Bones Gaming Discord Server (the "Server") that are reported to our Designated Copyright Agent, identified in the notice process below.

As a community it is important that we all have respect for each other's ideas and creations. Bits N Bones respects those intellectual property rights of other creators and in return, we expect our users to do the same for our content as well as other members of the community. To this end, Bits N Bones maintains a policy that, under appropriate circumstances and at our discretion, we may terminate relationships with any community members that repeatedly infringe on or disrespect the copyrights of others.

If you are a copyright owner, or are authorized to act on behalf of one, or authorized to act under any exclusive right under copyright, please report alleged copyright infringements within the Site or the Server by completing a DMCA Notice of Alleged Infringement and delivering it to Bits N Bones Designated Copyright Agent via email. Upon receipt of the Notice as described below, Bits N Bones will take action, in its sole discretion, as it deems appropriate. We will terminate the access rights and ban the IPs of repeat infringers for all our offerings including but not limited to the Site and the Server.

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Infringing Content . . .

If you find infringing content, either on the Site or the Server, please follow these steps . . .

1. If you have editing rights, you may remove the content yourself. If further content appears, please contact our support (Site) or mods (Server)

2. If you do not have editing rights, you may contact our support (Site) or mods (Server)

3. Submit a Copyright Notice of Infringement Claim (see below)

Please note that Bits N Bones is a service provider and is entitled to claim immunity from said infringement claims pursuant to the Safe Harbor provisions of the DMCA. To submit a good faith infringement claim, you must provide substantially the following information:

Copyright Notice of Infringement Claim

(i) the signature of the copyright owner or an authorized agent;

(ii) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple works are on a single site, a representative list of such works;

(iii) identification of the infringing material or activity (or the reference or link to such material) and information reasonably sufficient to permit the OSP to locate the material (or the reference or link);

(iv) contact information for the copyright owner or authorized agent;

(v) a statement that the person sending the notice has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and

(vi) a statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the person sending the notice is authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner .

Please note that we may share the identity and information in any copyright infringement claim we receive with the alleged infringer as per the DMCA. In submitting a claim, you understand, accept and agree that your identity and claim may be communicated to the alleged infringer.

Please send all takedown notices to our DMCA Agent listed in our Contacts. Please send by email for prompt attention.

Copyright Counter-Notice Request

If the user believes that the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material, the user may submit a counter-notice requesting the reinstatement of the material. To be effective, a counter-notice must contain substantially the following information:

(i) a physical or electronic signature of the user;

(ii) 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;

(iii) a statement under penalty of perjury that the user has a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled;

(iv) the user’s name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that the subscriber consents to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial district in which the address is located, or if the subscriber’s address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which the service provider may be found, and that the subscriber will accept service of process from the person who provided notification under subsection (c)(1)(C) or an agent of such person.

As per the DMCA, following receipt of a valid counter-notice, Bits N Bones will restore access to the material after no less than ten and no more than fourteen business days, unless the original notice sender informs the service provider that it has filed a court action against the user.

Please understand that we are unable to mediate rights ownership disputes. We will take no further action until the dispute between the two parties has been resolved in court.