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  1. COPYRIGHT AND COPYRIGHT COMPLAINTS

The license does not include any right to, and you will not a) sell, resell or commercially use the App or Services; b) copy, reproduce, distribute, publicity, perform or public display the App or Services; c) modify the App or Trashbox Services, remove any propriety rights notice or marking, or otherwise make any derivative uses of the App or Trashbox Services; d) use any data mining, robots or similar dating gathering or extraction methods on the App; and e) use the App or Trashbox Services other than of their intended purpose.

 

The App is protected by the copyright laws of the Republic of South Africa, international treaties and conventions, and other laws, and Trashbox retains all right, title and interest in and to the App, including all intellectual property rights associated with the App, except as expressly granted above, you have no intellectual property rights in the App (including any rights to use the trademarks, trade names, service marks, logos, domain names, and other distinctive brand features) and Trashbox reserves all rights not expressly granted to you.

  1. The Copyright Act No. 98 of 1978.

A. The Copyright Act No. 98 of 1978.

Trashbox will respond appropriately to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with the Copyright Act No. 98 of 1978. If you own a copyright in a work (or represent such a copyright owner) and believe that your (or such owner's) copyright in that work has been infringed by an improper posting or distribution of it via the Service, then you may send us a written notice (i.e. letter of demand) that includes all necessary and relevant information in order to ascertain the alleged copyright infringement, which includes:

a legend or subject line that says: "Copyright Infringement Notice";

 

  1. a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed or, if multiple copyrighted works are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works;

 

  1. a description of where the material that you claim is infringing or is the subject of infringing activity is located that is reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material (please include the URL or page of the Service on which the material appears);

 

  1. your full name, address, telephone number and email address;

 

  1. a statement by you 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;

 

  1. a declaration by you, duly commissioned,  that all the information in your notice is accurate, and that you are the copyright owner (or, if you are not the copyright owner, then your statement must indicate that you are authorized to act on the behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed); and

 

  1. your electronic or physical signature.

Claims of copyright infringement should be sent to Trashbox’s designated agent. Please visit Trashbox’s web page at Trashbox.com/legal for the designated address and additional information.

 

It is often difficult to determine if your copyright has been infringed. Trashbox may elect to not respond to such notices that do not substantially comply with all of the foregoing requirements, and Trashbox may elect to remove allegedly infringing material that comes to its attention via notices that do not substantially comply with the Copyright Act No. 98 of 1978.

         

We may send the information that you provide in your notice to the person who provided the allegedly infringing work. That person may elect to send us a Counter-Notification.

 

Without limiting Trashbox’s other rights, Trashbox may to the Service and any other website owned or operated by Trashbox.

 

If access on the Service to a work that you submitted to Trashbox is disabled or the work is removed as a result of a notice in terms of the Copyright Act No. 98 of 1978, and if you believe that the disabled, in appropriate circumstances, terminate a repeat infringer's access or removal is the result of mistake or misidentification, then you may send us a Counter-Notification. Your Counter-Notification should contain the following information:

A. Counter-Notification

If access on the Service to a work that you submitted to Trashbox is disabled or the work is removed as a result of a notice contemplating the Copyright Act No. 98 of 1978, and if you believe that the disabled access or removal is the result of mistake or misidentification, then you may send us a Counter-Notification to the addresses above. Your Counter-Notification should contain the following information:

  1. a legend or subject line that says: " The Copyright Act No. 98 of 1978 Counter-Notification";

 

  1. a description 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 (please include the URL or page of the Service from which the material was removed or access to it disabled);

 

  1. a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled;

 

  1. your full name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and the username of your account;

 

  1. a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the High Court in which your address is located and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided The Copyright Act No. 98 of 1978 notification to us or an agent of such person; and

 

  1. your electronic or physical signature.

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