Commons:Office actions/DMCA notices
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This page in a nutshell: Sometimes the Wikimedia Foundation needs to remove content for legal reasons, in response to a request under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Such removals cannot be reversed without legal action. |
 | This page lists notifications the Wikimedia Foundation may make of removal of content in response to a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) take-down notice. (Such notices are claims of copyright infringement.) In order to avoid legal liability ("safe harbor status") under this US law, the Foundation is required to comply with validly formulated notices even if they are spurious. Such removals are Office actions and may not be reversed. Removals can only be challenged by legal action by someone other than the Foundation. The Wikimedia Foundation may publish the take-down request at wmf:Category:DMCA. |
| {{DMCA takedown notice}} should be used to post a takedown notice here, and then to announce it at Commons:Village pump, pointing to the notice here. Deletion summaries of files taken down should, if possible, link to either the takedown file at wmf:Category:DMCA, or at least to this page.
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Responding to a DMCA take down notice In the event that material is removed due to a DMCA notice, the only recourse for restoring such material is to file a counter-notice with the Foundation. If you believe that a take-down notice which has been acted upon by the Foundation is without legal basis, please feel free to visit the following sites as a first step in learning about filing a counter-notice:
Please note that filing a counter-notice may lead to legal proceedings between you and the complaining party to determine ownership of the material. The DMCA process requires that you consent to the jurisdiction of a United States court. All notices should be sent to the Foundation's designated agent. |
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2024[edit]
Fireworks at Land's End[edit]
In compliance with the provisions of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and at the instruction of the Wikimedia Foundation's legal counsel, one or more files have been deleted from Commons. Please note that this is an official action of the Wikimedia Foundation office which should not be undone. If you have valid grounds for a counter-claim under the DMCA, please contact me.
The takedown can be read here.
Affected file(s):
Thank you! Joe Sutherland (WMF) (talk) 23:36, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
- I nominated all images uploaded by this user: Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Ashyoung114. They have similar EXIF data that this one. Yann (talk) 00:05, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
2010 Winter Olympics Canada clebrating hockey gold medal[edit]
In compliance with the provisions of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and at the instruction of the Wikimedia Foundation's legal counsel, one or more files have been deleted from Commons. Please note that this is an official action of the Wikimedia Foundation office which should not be undone. If you have valid grounds for a counter-claim under the DMCA, please contact me.
The takedown can be read here.
Affected file(s):
Thank you! Joe Sutherland (WMF) (talk) 23:51, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
- File log shown on page 10 of the takedown notice indicates that the upload originated on English Wikipedia. This should serve as a reminder for local file reviewers on enwiki as well as file movers that not all locally-stored files on enwiki are either eligible for Commons or not infringements or violations to others' copyrights. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 00:28, 2 February 2024 (UTC)