A Public Library service for Bristol City, UK.
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Bristol Libraries Notice and Takedown Policy
Definitions and terms
If the administrators of Bristol Libraries are notified of a potential breach of copyright, or receive a plausible complaint indicating a violation of any law (including but not limited to laws on copyright, patent, trademark, confidentially, data prot
ection, obscenity, defamation or libel) the Resource or Contribution involved will be withdrawn from the repository as quickly as possible pending further investigation. A decision on whether the Resource or Contribution may be made available again may take some time if it is necessary for Bristol Libraries to seek legal advice to resolve the complaint. How to complain:
If you have discovered material in Bristol Libraries which is unlawful e.g. breaches copyright, (either yours or that of a third party) or any other law, including but not limited to those relating to patent, trademark, confidentiality, data protection, obscenity, defamation, libel, please contact the Bristol Libraries Service Manager in writing (and preferably also by email) providing the following information:
· Your contact details.
· Full details of the Resource or Contribution, including the author, title and resource address (URI).
· The website address where you found the content in Bristol Libraries.
· The nature of your complaint.
· An assertion that your complaint is made in good faith and is accurate.
· If you are complaining about breach of your own copyright, please state, under penalty of perjury, that you are the rights owner or are authorised to act for the rights owner. Please send your complaint to:
FAO: Customer Service Manager (Re: Notice and Takedown)
Bristol Central Library
College Green
Bristol BS1 5TL
and send an email with the message header ‘Bristol Libraries Notice and Takedown’
to the following address: [email protected]
The following 'Notice and Takedown' procedure will then be invoked:
1. Bristol Libraries 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 taking legal advice.
2. The material will be temporarily removed from Bristol Libraries pending an agreed solution.
3. Bristol Libraries will contact the contributor who deposited 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 the following possible outcomes:
i. The material will be returned to Bristol Libraries with appropriate changes. iii. The material will be permanently removed from Bristol Libraries.
5. If the contributor and the complainant are unable to agree a solution, the material will remain unavailable through Bristol Libraries until a time when a resolution has been reached. Acknowledgement
This policy is based largely on the notice and takedown policy developed by the ETHOS project. It is available on the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence
