Digital Millenium Copyright Policy
Ares Communications Group, Inc.
Digital Millennium Copyright Policy – In effect as of 10/9/2023
I. Introduction
Ares Communications Group (“ACG”) respects the intellectual property rights of others. In accordance with the Digital Millenium 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. ACG will respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement committed through FintechWire.com (and its subsites: BanktechWire, SecuritiestechWire, and InsurtechWire) (the “Site”) if such claims are reported to ACG’s Designated DMCA Copyright Agent, identified in the Takedown Notice Instructions in Section II. If you are a copyright owner, authorized to act on behalf of one, or authorized to act under any exclusive right under copyright, please report alleged copyright infringements taking place on or through the site by completing a DMCA Notice of Alleged Infringement and delivering it to ACG’s Designated DMCA Copyright Agent. Upon receipt of Notice, as described below in Section II, ACG will take whatever action, in its sole discretion, it deems appropriate, including removal of the challenged content from the Site.
II. Takedown Notice Instructions
If you believe your copyrighted work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement and is accessible via the Site, please notify ACG’s copyright agent, as set forth in the Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1998 (“DMCA”). For your complaint to be valid under the DMCA, you must provide the following information in writing:
1. An electronic or physical signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed.
3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and the URL or Internet Location, or information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate where it is on the Site.
4. Information reasonably sufficient to permit Ares Communications Group to contact you, such as your address, telephone number, and e-mail address.
5. A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or law; and, Example of sufficient statement: “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. as a fair use).”
6. A statement, made under penalties of perjury, that the above information is accurate, and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner. Example of sufficient statement: “I hereby state that the information in this Notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that I am the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or have an exclusive right under the copyright that is allegedly infringed.”
The above information must be submitted to the following ACG Designated DMCA Copyright Agent:
Attn: DMCA Notice Ares Communications Group, Inc. 201 Boston Post Road West, Suite 300 Marlborough, MA 01752 Phone: 508.480.8500 Fax: 508.480.8501 Contact name: Robert Misasi, rmisasi@arescommgroup.com Secondary contact: Cathy Cohen, ccohen@arescommgroup.com
UNDER FEDERAL LAW, IF YOU KNOWINGLY MISREPRESNT THAT ONLINE MATERIAL IS INFRINGING, YOU MAY BE SUBJECT TO CRIMINAL PROSECUTION FOR PERJURY AND CIVIL PENALTIES, INCLUDING MONETARY DAMAGES, COURT COSTS, AND ATTORNEYS’ FEES.
III. Counter Notice Instructions
If it is not possible to come to agreement with the reporting copyright owner, the content owner may submit a DMCA Counter Notice to the ACG Designated DMCA Copyright Agent (as identified in Section II) within ten (10) business days of the date of our notice. If we receive a valid counter-complaint, we will email a copy of the notice to the copyright owner, as identified in the Takedown Notice. The counter-notice is a legal document and must comply with the requirements of the DMCA and must include the following:
1. Contact Information: User’s name, physical address, email address and phone number.
2. Content Identification: A reasonable identification of the material that has been removed or to which User’s access has been blocked.
3. Statement Under Perjury: A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have 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.”
4. Consent to Jurisdiction and Service of Process: A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your provided address is located (or the federal district courts located at the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts if your address is outside of the United States) and that you will accept such service of process from the person who filed the original DMCA notice or an agent of that person.
5. Signature: An electronic or physical signature of the owner of the copyright or a person authorized to act on the owner’s behalf.
IV. Policy on Repeat Infringement
Under appropriate circumstances, ACG may, in our discretion, terminate authorization of users from our system or network that are repeat offenders. To be clear, ACG may deny content or selected individuals from submitting any future content.