Karsenics Copyright and DMCA Policy

Karsenics respects intellectual property and expects everyone who uses its platform to do the same. Organizations upload artwork, logos, maps, photographs, and text to their registration pages, and participants upload documents and images. This page explains how to tell us if something infringes your copyright, and what happens next.

1. Reporting alleged infringement

If you believe material accessible through karsenics.com or a Karsenics-powered registration page infringes a copyright you own or are authorized to act for, send a written notice to our designated agent containing all of the following. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act requires each element, and a notice missing one may not be effective.

• A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf.

• Identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed, or, if multiple works at one site, a representative list.

• Identification of the material you claim is infringing, with enough detail for us to locate it, including the full URL of the page it appears on.

• Your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.

• A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.

• A statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

Send it to:

Designated Copyright Agent, Karsenics PBC

Email: legal@karsenics.com · Telephone: 713-955-8977 · Mail: 3120 Southwest Fwy, Ste 101, PMB #803188, Houston, TX 77098-4520

Please put "DMCA Notice" in the subject line.

A caution. Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), a person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing may be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys' fees. Consider whether the use is a fair use before sending a notice. If you are unsure whether the material infringes, talk to a lawyer first.

2. What we do when we receive a notice

2.1 We review the notice for the elements in Section 1. If it is incomplete, we will tell you what is missing.

2.2 If it is complete, we will remove or disable access to the identified material expeditiously.

2.3 We will notify the organization or participant who supplied the material, provide them a copy of the notice, and tell them how to file a counter notification.

2.4 Where the material sits on an organization's registration page, we will work with the organization to remove it. Where the material is essential to a live event's registration, we will remove the specific material rather than taking the whole page down, unless the notice makes that impossible.

3. Counter notification

If your material was removed and you believe it was removed by mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter notification containing all of the following.

• Your physical or electronic signature.

• Identification of the material that was removed and the location where it appeared before removal.

• A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.

• Your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.

• A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, or, if your address is outside the United States, to the jurisdiction of any judicial district in which Karsenics may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who submitted the notice or their agent.

Send it to the designated agent address in Section 1 with "DMCA Counter Notification" in the subject line.

What happens next. We will forward your counter notification to the person who submitted the original notice and tell them we will restore the material in ten to fourteen business days unless they notify us that they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the allegedly infringing activity. If they do not, we may restore the material.

Section 512(f) applies to counter notifications too. Knowingly misrepresenting that material was removed by mistake carries the same liability.

4. Repeat infringers

Karsenics terminates, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of organizations and participants who are repeat infringers. We track notices received against an account. What counts as "appropriate circumstances" depends on the number of notices, whether counter notifications were filed, whether the notices were resolved in the account holder's favor, and whether the conduct was deliberate. We do not apply a mechanical strike count, because a single organization that received three meritless notices is not a repeat infringer and a single deliberate wholesale copier may be one on the first notice.

5. Trademarks

To report trademark misuse, email legal@karsenics.com with the mark, the registration number if any, the location of the material, and an explanation of the confusion you believe it creates. Trademark complaints are not handled under the DMCA and have no statutory notice format.

6. Your own responsibility

Organizations warrant in the Master Services Agreement that they hold the rights to what they upload. Participants agree the same in the Platform Terms of Use. Karsenics does not review uploaded material for infringement before it appears, and the fact that material is on the platform is not a representation by Karsenics that it is properly licensed.

Two areas worth care: event artwork and logos, where an organization may have a design it did not commission with a transfer of rights, and maps and imagery, where Karsenics deliberately avoids embedding third-party map tiles and organizations should supply artwork they own.

7. Changes

We may update this policy. The date at the top changes when we do.

Karsenics PBC · legal@karsenics.com · 3120 Southwest Fwy, Ste 101, PMB #803188, Houston, TX 77098-4520

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