Copyright Policy

Last Updated June 4, 2010

SoBiz Network, Inc. [hereafter "SoBiz"] supports the reporting of copyright infringement abuses and will make every attempt to respect the rights and laws governing copyright infringement. In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, the text of which may be found on the U.S. Copyright Office website at: http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf.

SoBiz will respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement committed using the SoBiz service that are reported to SoBiz's Designated Copyright Agent identified in the sample notice below. By becoming a SoBiz member at time of registration, each User of this website grants SoBiz a license to use the content supplied by each such User for the purposes of disclosure on the website. This license includes the right for SoBiz to reproduce, represent, adapt, translate, digitize, and use each Users content for advertising purposes(whether commercial or non-commercial). SoBiz can also sublicense to transfer the content concerning each User (including information, pictures, descriptions, search criteria, etc.) over all or part of the services and/or in any mailings of SoBiz and in general through any electronic communication media (email, SMS, MMS, WAP, Internet, CD Rom or DVD).

Each User expressly authorizes SoBiz to modify any provided content in order to conform to the display requirements of the services or of other communications media as set forth above, and/or to render them compatible with its technical performance or media format in question. These rights are granted throughout the world and for the entire term of this Agreement. The User is prohibited from copying, reproducing or otherwise using the content relating to other Users of SoBiz for any purpose other than for those purposes strictly related to use of the website services for personal purposes.

Based on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. sec. 512 guidelines, SoBiz has designated an agent to receive notices of claimed copyright infringement. If you believe in good faith that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide SoBiz Copyright Agent the following information:

1. Electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;

2. Description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;

3. Description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Site;

4. Your address, telephone number, and e-mail address;

5. Statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and

6. Statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner?s behalf.

Any notice of claims of copyright infringement can be submitted as follows: by e-mail at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Once we at SoBiz receive the written notice detailed above we will, at our sole digression, conduct the following steps:

1. Administrators may remove or disable access to the material that is alleged to be infringed;

2. Administrators may forward the written notification to such alleged infringer; and

3. Administrators may take reasonable steps to promptly notify the alleged infringer that it has removed or disabled access to the material.

Counter-Notification:

If the alleged infringer believes that a notice of copyright infringement has been wrongly filed against it and it would like to submit a counter-notification, it may file a Counter-Notification in Response to Claim of Copyright Infringement in the same locations above.

To be effective, a Counter-Notification must be a written communication provided to the designated location for Notice that includes the following information:

1. Physical or electronic signature of the alleged infringer;

2. Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled;

3. Statement under penalty of perjury that the alleged infringer has a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled; and

4. The alleged infringer's name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that the alleged infringer consents to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial district in which the address is located, or if the alleged infringer's address is outside of the United States, and that the alleged infringer will accept service of process from the person who provided notification or an agent of such person.

When we at SoBiz receive a Counter-Notification containing the information as outlined in 1 through 4 above:

1. Administrators may promptly provide you with a copy of the Counter-Notification;

2. Administrators may inform you that it will replace the removed material or cease disabling access to it within ten (10) business days; and

3. Administrators may replace the removed material or cease disabling access to the material within ten (10) to fourteen (14) business days following receipt of the Counter-Notification, provided for Notice has not received notice from you that an action has been filed seeking a court order to restrain Subscriber from engaging in infringing activity relating to the material on SoBiz or system.

You may want to seek the advice of independent legal counsel before filing a notification or counter-notification.

Notice and Procedure for Making Complaints Regarding Content

To see website content that infringes your rights or the rules listed in the agreements of this website or is otherwise unlawful "Specified Content", you must send a notice to the Corporation Content Complaint Manager by mail or e-mail and provide the following information:

1. Your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address;

2. Description of the Specified Content that your claim either infringes your rights or is otherwise unlawful, specifying which parts of it you believe infringe your rights, or are unlawful, and which parts you believe should be removed;

3. Description of the exact location of the Specified Content on the Web Site;

4. (In the event you believe that the Specified Content infringes your rights): A statement specifying in detail the rights you assert, and why the Specified Content infringes them;

5. (In the event you believe that the Specified Content is otherwise unlawful): A statement specifying in detail which laws you believe are being breached, and why the Specified Content does so;

6. Statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are damaged by the Specified Content or authorized to act on such person?s behalf; and

7. Your electronic or physical signature (as appropriate).

When we at SoBiz receive a notice that complies with the above requirements, we will evaluate the information you provided (including, if appropriate, forwarding the notice to, or otherwise contacting the source of the Specified Content), and if appropriate in our judgment, remove or disable access to the Specified Content. In such case, we may notify the source of the Specified Content of your complaint and our action taken. In some cases, if the source of the Specified Content provides us with information indicating that the Specified Content has been removed wrongly, we may reinstate the Specified Content. Our take-down and re-instatement procedures are and remain at our sole discretion.

User's Agreement to Hold Us Harmless From Claims:

Claimants and users must understand that SoBiz is not an intellectual property tribunal. While we may in our discretion use the information provided in order to decide how to respond to infringement claims, we are not responsible for determining the merits of such claims. If a user responds to a claim of infringement by providing assurances that its content is not infringing, the user agrees that if we thereafter restore or maintain the content, the user will defend and hold SoBiz harmless from any resulting claims of infringement brought against SoBiz.

You may want to seek the advice of independent legal counsel before filing a notice or responding to a notice filed by someone else.

Corporation Content Complaint Manager can be contacted at: