Paper and Packaging Board Copyright Policy

LAST REVISION: June 17, 2020

The Paper and Packaging Board (“P+PB”) respects the intellectual property rights of others and provides this Copyright Policy to describe P+PB’s policy of prohibiting users from uploading, posting or otherwise transmitting on or to this website or app, any websites or apps on which this DMCA policy appears, including those at howlifeunfolds.com and paperandpackaging.org URLs (collectively, the “Sites”) any information or materials that violate another party’s intellectual property rights.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (the “DMCA”) provides recourse for copyright owners who believe that material appearing on the Internet infringes their rights under U.S. copyright law. It is P+PB’s policy to respond to notices and counter-notices that properly conform with the DMCA’s requirements. Accordingly, notices and counter-notices must meet the then-current statutory requirements imposed by the DMCA; see the Copyright Office’s web page at www.copyright.gov for details of the current DMCA requirements.

A. Notification of Alleged Copyright Infringement

If you believe in good faith that materials hosted by P+PB infringe your copyright (for example, photographs posted as a comment), you (or your agent) may send P+PB a written notification pursuant to the DMCA, by providing P+PB’s DMCA Agent with the information listed below (and as further set forth in 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)) and requesting that the material be removed or access to it blocked:

Identification in sufficient detail of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed. If multiple copyrighted works on the Sites are covered by a single notification, you may provide a representative list of such works on the Sites, however, the representative list must still contain sufficient detail of the copyrighted works so that P+PB can identify them;
Identification of the URL or other specific location on or in the Sites that contains the material and identification of the material that you claim to be infringing your copyright. You must provide P+PB with reasonably sufficient information to enable P+PB to locate the alleged infringing material(s), so that P+PB can comply with your request to remove or deny access to it/them;
Your name, and the address, telephone number and email address (if available) where you can be contacted;
The electronic or physical signature of the owner of the copyright or a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
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 the law; and
A statement that you swear under penalty of perjury that the information contained in your notification is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

You acknowledge that if you fail to comply with all of the requirements of this Section A, your DMCA notice will not be valid.

You must submit any notification of an alleged copyright infringement to PB’s DMCA Agent by mail, or email as set forth below:

Mary Anne Hansan, President

DMCA Agent

Paper and Packaging Board

8200 Greensboro Drive, #1175

McLean, Virginia 22102

Phone: (703) 935-8590

Email: DMCA@paperandpackaging.org, with the subject line “Copyright Policy – DMCA Notification”

This contact information is for DMCA notifications and counter notifications ONLY. ALL OTHER INQUIRIES DIRECTED TO THE DMCA AGENT WILL NOT BE ANSWERED.

Please note that you may be liable for damages, including court costs and attorneys’ fees, if you materially misrepresent that materials on the Sites are infringing a copyright.

B. Counter Notification

If you believe in good faith that your own copyrighted material has been removed from the Sites as a result of mistake or misidentification, you may submit a written counter notification letter to P+PB’s DMCA Agent pursuant to Sections 512(g)(2) and (3) of the DMCA. To be an effective counter notification under the DMCA, your written correspondence must include substantially the following:

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;
A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court in which your address is located, or in Fairfax County, Virginia if your address is outside the United States, and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the notification in Section A hereto or an agent of such person;
A statement that you will accept service of process from the party that filed the notification of alleged copyright infringement or the party’s agent;
Your name, address and telephone number;
A statement that you swear under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief that the material in question was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled, or that the material identified by the complaining party has been removed or disabled at the URL or Site location and will no longer be shown or accessible; and
Your physical or electronic signature.

You acknowledge that if you fail to comply with all of the requirements of this Section B, your DMCA counter notification will not be valid.

You may submit your counter notification to P+PB’s DMCA Agent by mail, or email as set forth below:

This contact information is for DMCA notifications and counter notifications ONLY. ALL OTHER INQUIRIES DIRECTED TO THE DMCA AGENT WILL NOT BE ANSWERED.

If a counter notice is received by P+PB’s DMCA Agent, P+PB will send a copy of the counter notification to the original complaining party informing that person that P+PB may replace the removed content or cease disabling access to it. After providing such copy to the original complaining party, P+PB will replace the removed material and cease disabling access to it in 10-14 business days following receipt of the counter notification, unless the copyright owner files an action seeking a court order restraining the user from engaging in infringing activity relating to the material on the Sites.

Please note that if you materially misrepresent that the disabled or removed content was removed by mistake or misidentification, you may be liable for damages, including costs and attorney’s fees.

C. Repeat Offenders

If you believe that a user is a repeat infringer, please follow the requirements above, but also include information or evidence that will reasonably prove to P+PB that the user is a repeat infringer. P+PB takes copyright infringement very seriously. Pursuant to the repeat infringer provision of the DMCA, Section 512(i), P+PB shall maintain a list of DMCA notices from copyright holders or on their behalf, and will make a good faith effort to identify and prohibit future posts by repeat offenders.

If you provide false information to P+PB regarding any of the above notifications, counter-notifications or repeat infringer notifications, you may be subject to legal and equitable remedies.

Updated: June 17, 2020