DMCA Copyright Takedown Procedure

17 U.S.C. § 512(c) safe harbor — A-du, LLC

A-du respects intellectual property and complies with the notice-and-takedown procedures of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). If you believe content hosted on A-du infringes a copyright you own or control, you may submit a takedown notice using the procedure below.

1. Designated Copyright Agent

A-du’s Designated Agent is registered with the U.S. Copyright Office under registration number DMCA-1071739; the authoritative agent record is publicly searchable at https://dmca.copyright.gov.

2. Required elements of a compliant takedown notice

To be effective under § 512(c)(3), your notice must include all of the following:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on the owner’s behalf.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed (or, for multiple works on the site, a representative list).
3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient to permit A-du to locate it, including the URL(s) of the A-du page(s) on which the material appears.
4. Contact information for you (the complaining party): full name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
5. A statement that you have 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.
6. A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner’s behalf.

3. How to submit

If you cannot use the mailto link, send your notice with the six elements above to chriskoss444@gmail.com.

4. What happens after A-du receives a notice

• A-du reviews the notice for compliance with § 512(c)(3). Non-compliant notices may be rejected with a request to re-submit.
• If the notice is facially compliant, A-du expeditiously removes or disables access to the identified material.
• A-du notifies the user who posted the material and forwards the notice.
• The posting user may submit a counter-notice under § 512(g) (see below).
• Repeat infringers are subject to account termination under A-du’s Repeat Infringer Policy pursuant to § 512(i).

5. Counter-notice (§ 512(g))

If you are the user whose content was removed and you believe the removal was the result of mistake or misidentification, you may submit a counter-notice. A counter-notice must include:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material that has been removed and the location where it appeared before removal.
3. A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief that the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
4. Your name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district in which you are located (or, if outside the United States, any judicial district in which A-du may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original notice or an agent of that person.

Submit counter-notices to the same address: chriskoss444@gmail.com.

6. Non-DMCA removal requests

For content removal requests that do not involve copyright (e.g. trademark, privacy, defamation, or policy-violating content), use the general reporting flow inside the A-du application or contact legal@a-du.homes.