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Copyright notices
1. Pictures on The Lab Games
The pictures in our own question banks and games are public domain, openly licensed (Creative Commons) or made for The Lab Games, and each one is listed on Image credits with its source. Teachers can also upload their own pictures to their own question banks. Teachers confirm they have the right to use each picture they upload. Teacher uploads are never used in our official games.
If you believe a picture on The Lab Games infringes your copyright, send a notice to our designated agent (section 3). We take it down promptly.
2. What a notice must include
Under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)), a notice needs:
- Your physical or electronic signature (or that of the person authorized to act for the copyright owner).
- The copyrighted work you believe is infringed.
- The picture you want removed and where it is: its web address. A picture’s address looks like
…/img/abc123….webp(right-click the picture and copy the image address), or send the page address where you saw it. - Your name, postal address, telephone number and email address.
- A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law.
- A statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act for the owner.
3. Our designated agent
Send notices to:
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Phone: TBD
Email: thelabgamesorg@gmail.com
Please put “Copyright notice” in the subject line. Other questions go to thelabgamesorg@gmail.com.
4. What happens next
- We remove the picture. It disappears from the teacher’s question banks and from the games, and its address shows “Picture removed” instead. The stored file is deleted.
- We tell the teacher who uploaded it, on their teacher dashboard, and keep a record of the notice and the date.
- The teacher’s questions stay; they can pick a different picture.
5. Counter-notices
If you uploaded a picture that was removed and you believe it was removed by mistake or misidentified, you can send a counter-notice to the agent above. It must include your signature; the picture that was removed and where it was; a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief it was removed by mistake or misidentification; your name, address and phone number; and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for your address (or, outside the U.S., any district where The Lab Games may be found) and will accept service from the person who sent the notice. We forward counter-notices to the sender, and may restore the picture after 10 to 14 business days unless they tell us they have filed a court action.
6. Repeat infringers
Each valid copyright notice about a picture a teacher uploaded counts against that teacher’s account. After two valid notices we review the account. We may turn off picture uploads for a teacher who repeatedly uploads pictures they don’t have the right to use, and in appropriate cases we close the account. Library pictures stay available to every teacher.
7. Misrepresentations
Anyone who knowingly makes a false claim in a notice or counter-notice may be liable for damages (17 U.S.C. § 512(f)).