According to the Terms of Service for this site, copyrighted material should not be posted to these forums. But there appears to be no way to contact anybody regarding infringement issues.

In practical terms, how does one go about rectifying infringement issues?

Thank you.

Eliz.

original and copy

ScottGem

That is not accurate. There is a link to Report Inappropriate Post on each post. You would use that to report and supply proof of any alleged copyright infringement.

I've reviewed the alledged infringment and the copyright notice was included in the response. This brings it under the fair use doctrine. However, to make it clear. I included a link to the original site. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

stapel

This link appears only if one agrees to become a member, and signs in. There appears to be no way for non-members to contact site owners or forum admins.

Um... You might want to spend a little more time reviewing the Fair Use Guidelines: Including within your document the fact that you know what you're copying is copyrighted does not, in fact, bring your use into compliance. If anything, it makes the owner's case stronger. Sorry.

To qualify for the Fair Use exemption, the use must, among other requirements, be transformative (so using a lesson as a lesson fails the Guidelines), immediate (so scraping instead of hyperlinking fails the Guidelines), and limited (so world-wide-web-viewable fails the Guidelines). The fact that this material was posted where it provided placement for advertisements (that is, monetary gain) also mitigates against Fair Use.

So I'm afraid the question still stands: How does one contact a real person about these issues?

Thank you.

Eliz.

ScottGem

First, since there is no fee for use of this site I don't consider the need to register to report an infraction to be an issue.

I have reviewed the fair use guidelines many times. Since the use of the article was for non-profit educational use and since the nature of the work was factual, not opinion or fiction I feel it does fall within the fair use guidelines. Including a link to the article, mitigates the issue that the article is linked to advertising.

However, I didn't pick up on the name intially. I gather you are the author of the article. Since we do strongly support copyright protections here I will remove the response at your request. I would prefer however to leave a link as the response rather than remove the response itself. Please let me know which you prefer.

stapel

Replacing the scrape with a link would be great! (In fact, this is what I'd have asked of the admins or owners, were said persons available. I'd really have rathered not raise a public "stink". Oh, well.)

Thank you for your assistance.

Eliz.

ScottGem

Like I said,the Report option is available.

The response has now been edited.