LEGAL & COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT POLICY

  1. GENERAL:

Morgan Applied Technologies, LLC. is required by law to fully comply with all state and federal statutes, regulations, and court rulings, including all copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws and regulations as noted by U.S. Law and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

If a web site, web content, posting, blog, e-mail traffic or other subscriber of Morgan Applied Technologies, LLC Services (as defined in the Terms of Services Agreement) violates any state or federal statutes the subscriber alone will be liable for such use or content.

Morgan Applied Technologies, LLC does not approve, verify, or endorse subscriber web sites or web content. All such content is the subscribers responsibility. All views and opinions expressed on web sites hosted by Morgan Applied Technologies, LLC are solely those of the owner or publisher of the web site or other third parties and do not necessarily reflect the views of Morgan Applied Technologies, LLC.

The following Items Constitute examples of Potential Copyright violations but by no means are a complete accounting of potential violations:

  1. Downloading and sharing MP3 files of music, videos, and games without permission of the copyright owner.
  2. Using corporate logos without permission.
  3. Enhancing a web site with music that is downloaded and artwork that is scanned from a book, all without attribution or permission of the copyright owners.
  4. Scanning a photograph that has been published and using it without permission or attribution as the background of a web site.
  5. Placing a number of full-text articles on a web page that is not password protected, therefore, the web page is accessible to anyone who can access the Internet.
  6. Downloading licensed software from non-authorized sites without the permission of the copyright or license holder.
  7. Making a movie file or a large segment of a movie available on a web site without permission of the copyright owner.

COPYRIGHT DISPUTES:

Morgan Applied Technologies has designated an agent to receive notifications of claimed copyright infringements, as is required by Federal Laws and Guidelines. All copyright infringement notifications must be sent to our agent, whose address is:

Morgan Applied Technologies, LLC.

ATTN: Copyright & Abuse Department

P.O. Box 350

Stewartsville, New Jersey 08886-0350

Email: abuse@morganat.com

Morgan Applied Technologies is unable take a position with respect to the validity of copyright infringement claims. All copyright disputes are governed by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”_ (which was signed into law on October 28, 1998, and amended the United State Copyright Act, Title 17 of the U.S. Code) and Subsection 512( c ) of the Copyright Act, also known as the Online Infringement Liability Limitation Act (“OCILLA”).

Under this body of law you must provide written communication to Morgan Applied Technologies designated agent that includes substantially the following:

  1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
  2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site is covered by a single notification, a list of such works at that site.
  3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonable sufficient to permit Morgan Applied Technologies to locate the material on the offending site.
  4. Information reasonably sufficient to permit Morgan Applied Technologies to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, and electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted so that reasonable action may be taken.
  5. A statement that the complaining party 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.
  6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

If we receive a properly formatted copyright complaint about a subscriber web site or web content we will notify the subscriber of our receipt of the complaint so that appropriate action may be taken:

  1. If the subscriber notifies us within twenty-four (24) hours after we contact the subscriber that the allegedly infringing material has been removed, if these actions are sufficient that the complaining party is satisfied then the matter will likely be resolved.
  2. If the allegedly infringing material(s) have not been removed after twenty-four (24) hours after the subscriber is contacted, we will disable the site and turn off the services. If that occurs, we will be unable to restore the subscribers access until the allegedly infringing material as been removed and the complaining party is satisfied appropriate action has been taken.
  3. In the event where the subscriber contests the allegedly infringing material(s) arguing that it is not in violation of the DMCA and S. law, we recommend that the subscriber retains a legal counsel that can provide the subscriber with sound legal advice. We will not be able to reactivate the subscribers services with the infringing content until after the legal proceedings have determined the outcome.

Note: This document is not legal advice and is provided as a guideline of our Legal & Copyright Infringement Policy.  If you require legal advice, you may want to retain a legal counsel.

 We reserve the right to update this document at any time.  You should refer to this document regularly, continued use of service after this document has been updated constitutes acceptance of the terms. This document was last updated on February 4th, 2018.