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Copyright and dmca policy

Intellectual Property Notice

SpeedHolics ("us", "we", or "our") operates a number of web and social media channels, hereinafter referred to as the "Platforms".

This page informs you of our policies regarding the use of intellectual property materials (photographs, articles, etc.) owned by third parties and hereinafter referred as the "Media".

We adhere to the applicable copyright laws and publish on our Platforms only those Media for which we have obtained the prior written consent of the respective Copyright holders. Copyright holders confirm that they are entitled to grant a non-exclusive permission to reuse the provided Media.  

SpeedHolics expects the contributors to the Platforms to follow the same approach towards copyrighted content.

DMCA Policy


DMCA stands for Digital Millennium Copyright Act. It is a U.S. copyright law. It addresses the rights and obligations of owners of copyrighted material who believe their rights under copyright law have been infringed, particularly but not limited to, on the Internet. SpeedHolics respects the legitimate rights of copyrights owners, and has adopted a notice and takedown procedure as required by the DMCA. The notice and take down procedure is described below.

 

1.How to Write and Send a Proper DMCA Notice
 

The DMCA provides a legal procedure by which you can request us to remove content infringing your intellectual property rights. A proper DMCA Notice will notify SpeedHolics of particular facts in a document signed under penalty of perjury. To file a notice of infringement with SpeedHolics, you must provide a written communication (by email) that contains the information specified in the list below. SpeedHolics would like to inform you that you will be liable for damages (including costs and attorney's fees) if you materially misrepresent that material is infringing your copyright(s). Therefore, if you are not sure if you are the proper copyright holder or if copyright laws protect the material of yours, you may need to consult a lawyer.

In order to write a proper DMCA notice, please provide the following information:

  • Identify with sufficient detail the copyrighted work that you believe has been infringed upon;

  • Identify the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit SpeedHolics to locate the material; 

  • Provide us with information reasonably sufficient to permit SpeedHolics to contact you or the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an email address at which the complaining party may be contacted;

  • Add the following statement: "I 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 the law";

  • Add the following statement: "I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate, and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed"; 

  • Sign the document; and 

Send the document via email to:
 

SpeedHolics
Attn: SpeedHolics Copyright Compliance Department

info@speedholics.com

2.Writing and Submitting a Counter-notification
 

If your content is removed due to operation of SpeedHolics notice and takedown procedure described above, and you believe the takedown was improper, you may submit a Counter-notification. SpeedHolics would like to inform you that you will be liable for damages (including costs and attorneys' fees) if you materially misrepresent that a product or activity is not infringing the copyrights of others. In case you are not sure whether certain material infringes the copyrights of others, we suggest that you first consult a lawyer.

To write a proper Counter-notification, please provide the following information:

  • Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled;

  • Your name, address, and telephone number; 

  • The following statement: "I consent to the jurisdiction of the Court where the claimant who submitted the DMCA take down Notice resides or chosen by the claimant"; 

  • The following statement: "I will accept service of process from the claimant who submitted the DMCA take down notice, or an agent of that person"; 

  • The following statement: "I swear, under penalty of perjury, that I have a good faith belief that the affected material was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled"; and 

  • Sign the document.

 

Send the written communication to our designated agent via email to: 

SpeedHolics
Attn: SpeedHolics Copyright Compliance Department

info@speedholics.com

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ABOUT SPEEDHOLICS

SpeedHolics is a modern editorial platform, made by sport cars lovers, for sport cars lovers. It exists to celebrate classic sports motoring culture, and to showcase the passion and ingenuity of so many hearts, minds and souls who made the motoring world what it is. We’ve spent our lives in love with performance classic cars and we know you have too. ​So we decided to build us a home on the Internet. Here, we can run free and share our passion, that's what we do.

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Ivan Alekseev (Senior Full Stack Engineer)
Alessandro Barteletti (Photographer, Journalist)
Günter Biener (Photographer)

Sean Campbell (Senior Editor)
Paolo Carlini (Photographer, Journalist)
Stefano Ciccarelli (Managing Advisor)

Daniel Dimov (Internet Law & Copyright Attorney at law)

Alessandro Giudice (Automotive Journalist)

Massimo Grandi (Architect, Designer & Writer)
Luigi Marmiroli (Engineer)

Paolo Martin (Designer)
Zbigniew Maurer (Designer)

Arturo Merzario (Racing Driver)
Edgardo Michelotti (Curator of Archivio Storico Michelotti)
Gilberto Milano (Automotive Journalist)

Fabio Morlacchi (Motoring Historian & Editor)

Francesca Rabitti (Storyteller)

Andrea Ruggeri (Film Maker)

Tim Scott (Creative Director and Photographer)
Mario Simoni (Automotive Journalist)
Jeroen Vink (Photographer)

Julie Wood (Translator & Editor)
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