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I Love FDL

Copyright & DMCA

I Love FDL hosts material submitted by local businesses and residents — product listings, event submissions, coupons, photos and comments. If you believe something here infringes your copyright, this page explains how to tell us and what we’ll do about it.

Reporting infringement

Send a written notice to our designated agent containing all six of the following. A notice missing any of them may not be actionable, and we may come back to you asking for the rest:

  1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, or someone authorised to act for them.
  2. Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed.
  3. Identification of the material you want removed, with enough detail for us to find it — a direct URL is best.
  4. Your contact information: name, address, telephone number and email.
  5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
  6. A statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and — under penalty of perjury — that you are the owner or authorised to act for them.

Knowingly sending a false notice carries liability. Section 512(f) makes anyone who materially misrepresents that material is infringing liable for damages, including the costs and legal fees of whoever had their content wrongly removed.

Designated agent

While our postal address is being finalised, send notices to info@ilovefdl.com with “DMCA Notice” in the subject line, and we will respond with the full agent details. Nothing here prevents you from filing a notice in the meantime.

What happens next

On receiving a complete notice we remove or disable access to the material, usually within a few business days, and tell whoever posted it what was removed and why. We’ll pass your notice on to them — including your contact details, which the law requires us to share so they can respond.

Counter-notice

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you can send a counter-notice containing:

  1. Your physical or electronic signature.
  2. Identification of the material and where it appeared before it was removed.
  3. A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief it 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 court for your district (or, if you’re outside the United States, for Wisconsin), and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice.

We forward counter-notices to the original complainant. If they don’t file a court action within 10–14 business days, we may restore the material.

Repeat infringers

We terminate the accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances. In practice: a confirmed, uncontested notice counts as a strike against the account that posted the material, and an account accumulating strikes is suspended — losing its listings, its deals and its ability to post. Counter-noticed material that gets restored doesn’t count.

How we keep track. Notices stay in the mailbox they were sent to, and every removal, takedown and account suspension an administrator carries out is recorded in an internal action log with who did it and what it affected. Strikes are counted from those records, so the decision to suspend an account rests on its history rather than on whoever happens to read the next email.

Other complaints

This page is for copyright only. For trademark concerns, impersonation, or anything else about content on the site, use our contact page — and see the Terms of Service for what is and isn’t allowed here, or Prohibited Items for what may not be listed for sale.