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Intellectual Property Policy

Intellectual Property Policy

Contentionary is a digital marketplace for contents which provides educators, content owners, corporate organizations and institutions with features that helps them digitize and monetize their contents. We respect the intellectual property rights of others and ask that you do the same. We have a process for submitting complaints regarding content posted by our members. Our policy and procedures are described below.

Posting content on Contentionary

Posting content on Contentionary

As a member, when you post contents (full-text, video, audio and exams) or supplementary materials on Contentionary, you do not transfer or assign copyright to us. Rather, you make the content available to the public through Contentionary. You retain the right to remove such content from Contentionary at any time, or to archive your content so it is available only to you and your co-author(s). You may also remove content from appearing on your profile page.

Our platform enables the private archiving and public posting of various types of content. If you choose to privately archive or publicly post content, we encourage you to first confirm your rights before doing so. This applies to posting content to your own center as well as other places on the platform, such as in the interaction forum, or the CBT league. As we do not have any information about rights you may hold, or any license terms or other restrictions which might apply to such content, we necessarily rely on you to understand your rights and act accordingly. For this reason, we request that you fully investigate and confirm that you have sufficient rights to post particular content to Contentionary before you do so. As a general matter, if you are an author publish in a journal, you may be allowed to upload certain versions of your article, but not others, and privately share certain content with others. However, many journals restrict publication of final versions and impose limitations on private sharing. This also applies to all other contents that is accepted on Content.

Your starting point for understanding your rights is the agreement(s) you have with your publisher or other rights owner. If you’re still unsure about what you’re allowed to share on Contentionary, we recommend that you get in touch directly with your publisher.

Complaints regarding content posted on Contentionary

Complaints regarding content posted on Contentionary

It is our policy to respond to notices of claimed copyright infringement submitted by rights owners in accordance with the notice and takedown procedures as guarded by the laws of Nigeria and found in section of the Digital Millennium Copyright. Our Designated Agent for receiving notices of claimed copyright and other intellectual property infringement is:

Copyright Agent
Contentionary
38, Opebi road, Ikeja,
Lagos, Nigeria
Email: contact@contentionary.com
Telephone: +2348037537762

Please be aware that, regardless of whether we disable access to or remove the content complained about, we may forward your written notification, including your contact information, to the member who posted the content, and/or take other reasonable steps to notify the member that we have received notice of an alleged violation of copyright or intellectual property rights.

Please also remember that, if you choose to request removal of content by submitting an infringement notification, you are initiating a legal process. Any notice or counter-notice you submit must be truthful and must be submitted under penalty of perjury. A false notice or counter-notice may give rise to personal liability. You may therefore wish to seek the advice of legal counsel before submitting a notice or counter-notice.

Copyright and other intellectual property infringement notification requirements

Copyright and other intellectual property infringement notification requirements

Please note that if you are not a copyright owner or authorized to act on behalf of a copyright owner, we must ask that you contact the copyright owner and ask them to submit a notice of claimed infringement. If you are a copyright owner, Nigeria, US, and other laws require that your notice of claimed infringement follow a specific form. The easiest way to do this is to complete a NOCI form and send it to copyright@contentionary.com, so long as it contains all the required information, including:

1. The name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address of the complaining party.
2. A description of the copyrighted work(s) or other intellectual property claimed to have been infringed and the country of claimed rights.
3. A description of where the allegedly infringing material is located on Contentionary, with information sufficient to permit us to locate the content. In order for us to be able to accurately identify and remove content notified to be infringing, it is necessary to provide the specific URL for the actual file and not the URL of the publication page where the file is displayed, as the content displayed on a publication page can change. You can identify the URL of a particular content by using the search bar or going to the center then searching for the content, selecting "content sources," right clicking on the respective download button of the file and copying the link address.
4. A statement that the complaining party “has a good faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.”
5. A statement that “the information in this notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.”
6. An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or other right that is allegedly infringed.

Note: If you are asserting infringement of an intellectual property right other than copyright, please specify the intellectual property right at issue (for example, "trademark").

Upon receiving notice of a claimed infringement that complies with the above requirements, we will expeditiously remove or disable access to the allegedly infringing material and will notify the member who posted it. At that time, we will also provide the member with an email address which may be used to contact the complaining party with any questions, or if they think a mistake has been made.

Repeat infringer policy

Repeat infringer policy

In accordance with applicable law, we have a repeat infringer policy that provides for the disabling of a member's uploading rights or termination of their membership in appropriate circumstances.

Counter notice requirements

Counter notice requirements

Contentionary recognizes that sometimes content may be mistakenly identified by a rights owner as infringing their rights. In the event such a mistake occurs, you should first contact the complaining party directly using the email address provided to you. Contentionary will allow you to re-upload the content upon receipt of an acknowledgement of the error from the complaining party.

If the complaining party does not agree that their request for removal was in error, you may submit a counter notice us, you can submit a written communication to Contentionary’s Designated Agent (contact details above). To be effective, your counter notice must include substantially the following:

• Your name, address and telephone number.
• Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location (URL) at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled.
• 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 of the material to be removed or disabled.
• A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located, or if your address is outside the United States, for any judicial district in which Contentionary may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the party who submitted the notification of claimed infringement or an agent of that party.
• Your physical or electronic signature.

We will not be able to consider your counter notice unless you fill out the form in its entirety, and physically sign it. Please make sure that the counter notice you send to Contentionary is legible; if we cannot read your handwriting, we will not be able to process it.

Upon receiving the original of your fully completed counter notice, Contentionary will provide the complaining party with a copy of your notice. We will also inform them that we will allow you to replace the removed material after 10 business days, unless Contentionary’s Designated Agent receives notice from the complaining party that it has filed an action seeking a court order to restrain you from engaging in infringing activity relating to the material on Contentionary. If the complaining party notifies us in writing that they no longer object to the material being made available, we will allow you to repost it.