DMCA & Copyright Policy - TopInspired.com

Who owns the content on this site

Unless it is credited to someone else, the written content on TopInspired.com, including our condition guides, belongs to us or our licensors. So do the site’s layout and design and the TopInspired name and logo. All of it is protected by intellectual property law.

Clinical guidance we quote or cite remains the property of the organization that published it.

What you may do without asking

Quote a short passage, a sentence or two, with clear attribution and a working link to the page it came from.
Print or save a page for personal, non-commercial use, including to discuss it with your own clinician.
Share a link to any page.

Attribution should name the page and link directly to it, not to a copy hosted elsewhere. Nothing on this page limits fair use or any other use the law allows.

What needs our written permission

Republishing a condition guide or article in full or in substantial part, in print or online.
Any commercial use, including in a product, course, newsletter or marketing material.
Translating or rewriting our content and publishing the result.
Scraping or bulk copying our content, including to populate another website or to build a dataset for training machine-learning models.
Using our name or logo in a way that suggests endorsement or affiliation.

To ask, use our contact page and tell us what you want to use and where it will appear. Our Terms of Use cover the wider rules for using this site.

Photographs and other third-party material

The photographs on this site are stock images used under their providers’ licenses. We do not own them and cannot give anyone permission to reuse them. If you want to use one, get it from its original source under that source’s terms.

The same applies to any material we quote from, or credit to, another organization.

How to send a copyright notice

If you own a copyright, or are authorized to act for the owner, and believe material on this site infringes it, send us a written notice. To be effective under 17 U.S.C. §512(c)(3), a notice must include substantially the following:

Signature. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or of a person authorized to act for the owner.
The copyrighted work. Identification of the work you say is infringed or, if one notice covers several works on this site, a representative list of them.
The material you want removed. Identification of the material you say is infringing, with enough information for us to find it. The exact page URL is best.
Your contact details. Enough information for us to reach you, such as your mailing address, telephone number and, if you have one, an email address.
Good-faith statement. A statement that you believe in good faith that the use of the material in the way you describe is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law.
Accuracy and authority. A statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right you say is infringed.

A notice that leaves out any of these may not count as a valid notice under the law. If an incomplete notice gives us enough information to reach you, we may contact you to ask for what is missing. The U.S. Copyright Office explains the process in its Section 512 resources.

Where to send your notice

Email your notice to the address on our contact page, which also appears under “Contact us about this policy” below. Put “DMCA Notice” in the subject line so it reaches the right person quickly.

What happens after you send a notice

This site does not currently publish material submitted by visitors, so a notice will usually concern content we published ourselves. We review each notice. If it shows that material on this site infringes your copyright, we will promptly remove that material or disable access to it.

If a notice concerns material that someone else supplied to us, we may give that person a copy of it, including your contact details. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal information more generally.

If you think material was removed in error

The counter-notification process in §512(g) applies to material supplied by someone other than us. The site does not currently publish material of that kind. If that changes and material you supplied is removed after a notice, you may send a counter-notification to the same address. It must include:

your physical or electronic signature;
identification of the material that was removed or disabled, and where it appeared before removal;
a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification;
your name, address and telephone 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 we 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 valid counter-notification, we will promptly send a copy to the person who sent the original notice and tell them we will restore the material in 10 business days. Unless they first tell us they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the activity, we will restore the material no sooner than 10 and no later than 14 business days after we receive the counter-notification.

Repeat infringers

The site has no user accounts and does not publish material submitted by visitors. If that changes, our policy is to end, in appropriate circumstances, the ability to post of anyone who repeatedly infringes copyright. We will keep a record of notices so that repeated conduct can be identified.

A false claim carries its own risk

Under §512(f), anyone who knowingly and materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that it was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, can be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees.

Before you send a notice, check your claim carefully and consider whether the use may be fair use. The U.S. Copyright Office’s Fair Use Index summarizes how courts have decided fair use cases. This page describes our process in general terms and is not legal advice. If you are unsure whether to send a notice, consult a lawyer.

Contact us about this policy

Questions about this page can be sent to care@topinspireds.com or raised by phone on +1 (555) 010-2040. You can also use our contact form.