Copyright and DMCA policy

What this policy covers

Most of what people post on Leasemark is public. This policy covers all of it:

• Listings: the title, description and other text about a space, and its photos, whether they were uploaded or copied from photo links in a spreadsheet import.
• Requirements: the title and description of a space someone is looking for.
• Broker pages: the name, title, company, short about text and website link a broker publishes.
• Everywhere that content appears: listing, requirement and broker pages, search and the map, neighborhood, street and building pages, the share images and printable pages made from a post, and the listing widget brokers can add to their own websites.

It also covers material we publish ourselves, such as the building photos we use from Wikimedia Commons with their credit. Leasemark does not review posts before they go live. Our terms ask everyone who posts to use only text and photos they have the rights to.

Our copyright agent

Send copyright notices and counter-notices to our designated agent:

Copyright Agent, BLRB Digital LLC
377 Main St, West Haven, CT 06516
Email: hello@leasemark.co

Email is the fastest way to reach us. Please put “Copyright notice” or “Counter-notice” in the subject line.

What to include in a notice

Your notice must be in writing and include all of the following:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or of a person authorized to act for the owner. We accept a typed full name as an electronic signature.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work you believe has been infringed. If your notice covers several works on Leasemark, a representative list of them is enough.
3. Identification of the material you believe is infringing, with enough information for us to find it: the link to each listing, requirement or broker page and, for a photo, which one it is (a listing's photo viewer numbers them, for example 2 / 5).
4. Your name, postal address, phone number and email address.
5. A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the way you describe is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement that the information in your notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act for the owner.

If a notice is missing some of these but includes items 2, 3 and 4, we will promptly try to contact you to complete it. Before you send a notice, please consider whether the use could be a fair use or covered by a license, for example a photo the building's owner gave a broker to market the space.

What happens after a notice

• When we receive a notice that meets these requirements, we act quickly to remove the material or disable access to it.
• We promptly tell the person who posted it. We may send them a copy of your notice, including your name and contact details, so they can reach you or send a counter-notice.
• We record the notice against the poster's account (see Repeat infringers below).
• Search engines and other websites may keep copies for a while after we remove something. We do not control those copies.

Counter-notice

If we removed something you posted and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you can send our copyright agent a counter-notice. It must be in writing and include:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material that was removed or disabled, and where it appeared before it was removed (the link to the listing, requirement or broker page).
3. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification.
4. Your name, address and phone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district where your address is located (or, if your address is outside the United States, any judicial district in which BLRB Digital LLC may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice or that person's agent.

When we receive a complete counter-notice, we promptly send a copy of it, including your contact details, to the person who sent the original notice, and tell them we will restore the material in 10 business days. We restore it no less than 10 and no more than 14 business days after we receive your counter-notice, unless our copyright agent first receives notice from that person that they have filed a court action seeking an order to stop you from infringing with that material on Leasemark.

Repeat infringers

We keep a record of valid copyright notices against each Leasemark account. An account with three valid notices that were not resolved by a successful counter-notice or a retraction is terminated: we close it and take down its posts and broker page. We may terminate an account sooner, including after a single notice, when the infringement is clear or willful. A person whose account we terminated may not open a new one, and our terms already forbid opening accounts to get around a removal.

False notices and counter-notices

Under 17 U.S.C. 512(f), anyone who knowingly and materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that it was removed by mistake or misidentification, may be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys' fees. If you are not sure whether something infringes your copyright, consider talking to a lawyer first.

Other problems with a post

This process is for copyright only. For a trademark concern, a privacy issue, a post that is inaccurate or that markets your property without your permission, or anything else, use the Report link on the post, our contact form, or email hello@leasemark.co.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. See also our terms and privacy page.