Copyright and Takedown Policy

Our own material

The text, layout and graphics on this site are the publication’s own work unless stated otherwise. Court filings, statutes, agency documents and other government material we describe or quote are public records, and our description of them is our own wording with the original source linked.

You may quote a passage with attribution and a link to the page it came from, and link to any page.

Please do not republish an article in full, or reuse the site’s graphics, without asking. Email editorial@collectiveclaim.us and we will normally say yes to reasonable requests, including academic and news use.

Reporting infringement

If you believe material on this site infringes your copyright, email editorial@collectiveclaim.us with the subject line “Copyright notice” and include:

1. The work you say is infringed, and evidence that you own it (or are authorised to act for the owner).
2. The exact URL on this site, and the specific part that is said to infringe.
3. Your name, address, telephone number and email address.
4. A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised by the owner, its agent or the law.
5. A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act on the owner’s behalf.
6. Your physical or electronic signature.

A notice missing these elements may be returned for completion. We aim to acknowledge a complete notice within three business days.

What we do with a valid notice

• We remove or disable access to the material identified while we look into it.
• We tell the person who supplied the material, if the material did not come from the editorial desk, and give them the chance to respond.
• We keep a record of the notice, the action taken and the date.

We may also remove material without a formal notice where its provenance is unclear. Articles here are built from cited sources precisely so that provenance can be checked; if a citation is wrong, we want to hear about it through the corrections policy as well.

If your material was removed and you disagree

Send a counter-notice to the same address with the same level of detail, explaining why the removal was a mistake (for example, that you own the material or have permission, or that the use is lawful). We will forward it to the original complainant and may restore the material within 10 to 14 business days unless the complainant tells us they have begun a court action.

Restrictions on our use

Nothing in this policy limits any right you have under applicable law, including fair use and the safe harbour provisions available to online services.