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The FreeNews™ service delivers aggregated RSS news feeds made available free on the Web by various third-party content providers. FreeRange Communications (“FREERANGE”) is not the author of the content delivered by the FreeNews™ service and claims no copyright, license, or other ownership interest in such conent. FREERANGE does not control in ANY WAY what content is made available to users of the FreeNews™ service through any particular RSS feeds or websites. Users of the FreeNews™ service alone decide what content they will receive. All content is delivered directly from the referenced news source, and FREERANGE does not and cannot control the content delivered from any linked source. Users of the FreeNews™ service are responsible for complying with all applicable federal and state laws applicable to the use of such content, including all copyright laws.

FREERANGE respects federal and international copyright laws and expects users of the FreeNews™ service to do the same. Unauthorized copying, distribution, modification, public display, or public performance of copyrighted works (not considered fair use) may be an infringement of the copyright holders' rights. As a condition to every user’s FreeNews™ account, the user agrees that the user will not use the FreeNews™ service to infringe the intellectual property rights of others in any manner.

If FREERANGE receives notice of a single instance or repeated occurrrences of infringement of the rights of third party content providers by a user of the FreeNews™ service, FREERANGE shall have the right to immediately terminate the user’s account without further notice and terminate such user’s access to the FreeNews™ service. In addition, FREERANGE reserves the right to terminate the account of any user of the FreeNews™ service, if FREERANGE has a reasonable basis to believe that conduct of the user or the nature of any content delivered to the user (a) violates any state or federal law or regulation, (b) is harmful to the interests of FREERANGE, its affiliates, or other users of the FreeNews™ service, or (c) for any other reason in FREERANGE’s sole and absolute discretion, with or without cause.

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://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/), FREERANGE will respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement committed using the FreeRange™ service that are reported to FREERANGE's "Designated Copyright Agent" identified below. If you are a copyright owner, or authorized to act on behalf of an owner of the copyright or of any other exclusive right under the copyright, please report your notice of infringement by completing the following notice form and delivering it to the Designated Copyright Agent:

NOTICE OF ALLEGED INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT

1. Identity of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works are covered by this Notice, a representative list of the copyrighted works that you claim have been infringed as a result of delivery to a user of the FreeNews™ service:
2. Identification of the content that you claim is infringing (including at a minimum the name of the feed and the title and date of the story (or stories) under which such content was made available through the FreeNews™ service, if applicable, and the URL of the link shown on the FreeNews™ service where such material may be found):
3. Your street or mailing address, telephone number, and, if available, email address:
4. I hereby state that I have a good faith belief that the disputed use of the copyrighted material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law (e.g. fair use).
5. Electronic or physical signature of the copyright owner or of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or of any exclusive right under the copyright:
6. Electronic or physical signature of the copyright owner or of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or of any exclusive right under the copyright:

 

Full legal name:

All claims of copyright infringement should be delivered to the following "Designated Copyright Agent" of FreeRange:

Jonathan Maroney
FreeRange Communications, Inc.
621 SW Alder St., Suite 660
Portland, OR 97205

info@freerangeinc.com
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