Our users should respect others’ intellectual property rights as we do at MASTER ABA. Our intellectual property infringement policy follows the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) and other laws. If we receive a legitimate infringement Notice from a copyright or trademark owner that meets all of the standards below, we remove the content from our site. As a service provider hosting community-generated material, MASTER ABA cannot make legal judgment calls or resource comparisons, thus we use formal Notices to take action.
If a site member regularly or egregiously violates our policy, we’ll cancel their account and take additional action.
This policy explains formal Notice submission. Please email us at support@masteraba.com with any questions or issues regarding our service or policies. MASTER ABA cannot provide legal advice, therefore if you have issues about your resources, copyright or trademark law, fair use exclusions, etc., please consult an attorney.
Definitions
These broad definitions may help, but they do not take the place of legal advise.
Intellectual property includes trademarks, copyrights, and patents. This policy concerns trademarks and copyright.
Copyright protects a unique work against copying, display, replication, derivative work, and more.
A trademark is a term, phrase, logo, or design that distinguishes a brand from others. Kleenex is a trademarked face tissue brand.Notice and Removal
We try hard to respond rapidly to complete copyright or trademark infringement notices. As required by law, we have a Designated Agent for infringement claims. Our Designated Agent’s contact information is at the conclusion of this Policy.
Please notify our Designated Agent if you believe your work has been used in manner that violates copyright or trademark law on our website. Your notice must include the following to comply with the law:
Identification of your intellectual property you allege was infringed on our website (if your report concerns your trademark, please give your federal trademark registration number);
List the material you claim infringes on your IP, including:
a description of how the discovered material infringes on your IP, AND
explanation of where the information you identified is on Teachers Pay Teachers, with enough detail to help us identify it (a resource page URL is optimal);
Your entire name, mailing address, phone number, and email;
You state in good faith that the disputed use of the work is not authorized by the intellectual property owner, its agents, or the law;
You certify under penalty of perjury that the information in your notice is correct and that you are the intellectual property owner or authorized to act on behalf of the owner;
Electronic or physical signature of copyright holder's representative.Remember that under Section 512(f) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, anybody who willfully misrepresents infringing content or activities may be liable for damages, including attorney’s fees.
Please enter all needed information to speed up our response. To verify the status of the work you claim was infringed, please send any further information, such as a copy of the trademark or copyright registration.
After you submit your Notice
Trademark Notice — If your Notice of Trademark Infringement contains all the relevant details, we’ll examine your request and act in good faith. Make sure your notice specifies where your mark appears on our site to make it easier for us to process your request and remove all infringing content. By identifying each instance in a resource, seller name, or product title.
Copyright Notices—We’ll check your Notice of Copyright Infringement for completeness. More detailed instructions about which elements of a material you believe are infringing will make it easier for us to execute your request and remove the content. We contact the seller who posted the content, forward your notice, and remove it from our site when we take action.
If the content was misrepresented as infringing or removed by error, the person who posted it can submit a Counter-Notice (detailed below). We’ll send you a detailed Counter-Notice. Protecting the work requires more legal action. The law gives you 10 days to notify us. Otherwise, we must let them repost.
Counter-Notice Copyright Process
Send a Counter-Notice to our Designated Agent if you got a Notice of Copyright Infringement from us concerning one or more of your resources to contest the claim that your work violates the notifier’s copyright. Replying to our email works properly. You must include the following in your Counter-Notice:
Identification of your removed content, including a URL if possible;
Statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith conviction that the content was removed due to a mistake or misidentification;
Your entire name, mailing address, phone number, and email;
Your statement:
you agree to the jurisdiction of the Federal Court for your judicial district or, if your residence is outside the US, for Master ABA's judicial district,
you will accept service of process from the person who reported the infringement;
Your digital or physical signature.Your Counter-Notice After Submission
We’ll send your notice to the original sender if it has all the above details. They’ll have 10 days to tell us if they’ve taken legal action to defend their work. Please note that your content will stay prohibited if so. We’ll restore your resource after 10 days if they don’t respond.
Designated Agent & Contact Info
Send a Notice or Counter-Notice to our Designated Agent via email or mail using the following information:
The email address:
support@masteraba.com
Mailing Address:
Master ABA
Attention Copyright Team
6431 41st Ave N
St. Petersburg, FL 33709
Use this contact information solely for formal Notices or Counter-Notices. Please email us at support@masteraba.com with any other questions or issues about our service or policies, and a member of our support staff will respond as quickly as possible. MASTER ABA cannot provide legal advice, so if you have issues concerning copyright, trademark, fair use exclusions, or other topics, please consult an attorney.
