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Notice and Takedown Policy
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Making a complaint.
If you have discovered any material on the Forum website that is unlawful, e.g. breaches copyright or any other law, including but not limited to those relating to patent, trademark, confidentiality, data protection, obscenity, defamation or libel, please contact the Forum Site Administrator at admin@teachinglegalethics.org, providing the following information:
- your contact details
- full details of the resource or contribution, including the author and title
- the website address where you found the resource or material
- the nature of your complaint
- an assertion that your complaint is accurate and made in good faith
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Please send your complaint in an email to admin@teachinglegalethics.org with the subject 'Forum Notice and Takedown request’.
The following procedures will then be invoked:
1. The Forum will acknowledge receipt of your complaint by email or letter and will make an initial assessment of the validity and plausibility of the complaint, possibly involving legal advice.
2. The material will be temporarily removed from the Forum website until resolution.
3. The Forum Site Administrator will contact the contributor who posted or uploaded the material. The contributor will be notified that the material is subject to a complaint, under what allegations, and will be encouraged to assuage the complaints concerned.
4. The complainant and the contributor will be encouraged to resolve the issue swiftly and amicably and to the satisfaction of both parties, with one of the following outcomes:
> The material will be returned to the Forum unchanged
> The material will be returned to the Forum with the appropriate changes
> The material will be permanently removed from the Forum.
5. If the contributor and complainant are unable to agree a solution, the material will remain unavailable on the Forum website until a resolution has been reached.
This policy is largely based on the Jorum Open notice and takedown policy which is available under a Creative Commons 2.0 by-nc-sa licence.
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