Dear Sir/Madam,
It has recently been brought to my attention that one of your sites,
TUTORIALTOMB.COM, has copyrighted material on It. The materials on the site
are in copyright Infringement, and under US LAW Digital Millennium Copyright
Act ("DMCA"), Pub. L. 105-304, The copyrighted material is not to be copied
or reproduced without permission. Also, Copyright protects original
authorship fixed in tangible form. 17 U.S.C sec. 102 , For works
transmitted online, the copyrightable authorship may consist of text,
artwork, music, audio visual material, (including any sounds), sound
recordings, etc.
17 U.S.C. sec. 102( a ) clearly states "Under U.S. law, copyright protection
subsists from the time the work Is fixed. COPYRIGHT REGISTRATION IS NOT
MANDATORY"
Your site is also under general copyright infringement for these purposes:
Methods within script "BATTLE.PHP" on your site is in copyright infringement
Clearly shown here (
http://www.tutorialtomb.com/forumtemp/battle.php). The
script contained on this website performs and/or acts like one previously
copyrighted by a site in this network. The layouts of the script are similar
which are also copyrighted, as well as the functions are
copyrighted. Functions / Layouts copyrighted include but are not limited to,
Battle Nav, known as "BATTLE SYSTEM CONTROLS" on the defendants site, Submit
New Battle, known as "CREATE BATTLE" on the defendants site, "Preview Battle
, known as "SAME METHOD", "Submit Vote signature clickable", known as "SAME
METHOD", "STANDINGS", known as "SAME METHOD". All METHODS and / or LAYOUTS
for "SUBMIT VOTE", "SUBMIT BATTLE", "STANDINGS", "BOTS", and other sections
of the unique code and unique functions are copyrighted, that includes text
used which is protected under the DMCA as published, copyrighted text, and
ALL CANNOT BE REPRODUCTED WITHOUT PERMISSION..
Known to the US Copyright
office, the methods used to create this script were unique, that includes
but not limited to the submitting of signatures for battle and voting via a
php script.
All work on the domain NATIONALSIGLEAGUE.COM falls under these copyright
laws, which you have clearly broken. You have clearly reproduced sections of
the script "BATTLE SCRIPT" for VBULLETIN BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEM BY JELSOFT,
in PHP, which has a US filed COPYRIGHT. Under US LAW, The owner of the site
has a right to file Copyright Infringement reports against you AFTER you
have been Initially contacted. This email will serve as your contact.
Further action will be granted If you do not remove the copyrighted material
that Is Copyrighted 2005-2006 New-Line-Network and NationalSigLeague.com.
If you are under 18 years of age, Your parents will be held responsible for
receiving letters, phone calls, and/or other forms of contact from the US
Copyright Office and/or the court listed below.
Court of defendents
PALMER DISTRICT COURT
235 Sykes Street
Palmer, MA 01069
Sincerely,
Justin Johnson, Harvard Univerity Agent and Legal Department of sites
under the
New Line NETWORK.
E-mail dated this 21st day of July 2006.