DMCA & Copyright Policy
Where we stand
INTERNATIONALFREELANCERSDAY is a publication staffed by people who create work for a living and who write for an audience that does the same. Freelancers know exactly what it costs when someone lifts your work, so we take copyright seriously in both directions: we respect the rights of others in what we publish on internationalfreelancersday.com, and we respond properly when someone believes we have failed to. This page explains how we use third-party material, how to send us an infringement notice, and what happens after you do.
How we use other people’s material
Most of what we publish is written by our own editors. Where third-party material appears, it appears on these terms:
- Quotations. We quote from platform terms of service, help centre pages, official tax guidance, surveys and news reports at the length needed to inform readers and no longer, always with attribution and, where possible, a link to the original.
- Screenshots. Platform guides and tool reviews include screenshots of interfaces and pricing pages, because showing readers the actual fee schedule beats paraphrasing it. We treat these as fair use for the purposes of review, comparison and reporting, we keep them functional rather than decorative, and we date them because interfaces change.
- Data. When we cite rate surveys or industry reports, we cite the findings with credit to the publisher and link to the source. We do not republish other people’s datasets wholesale.
- Images. Illustrative images are our own, properly licensed, or used under the licence terms of their source, with credit where the licence requires it.
Filing a copyright infringement notice
If you believe material on this site infringes your copyright, send a notice to support@internationalfreelancersday.com with the subject line Copyright. Modelled on the DMCA’s requirements, an effective notice includes:
- identification of the copyrighted work you claim is infringed, with a link to the original if it is online;
- the exact URL on internationalfreelancersday.com where the allegedly infringing material appears, precise enough for us to find it;
- your name, and contact details we can actually reach you at;
- a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent or the law;
- a statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act for the owner;
- your physical or electronic signature.
You do not need a lawyer to send a valid notice, and we do not treat lawyerly formatting as a proxy for merit. We treat clear, honest notices from individual creators exactly as seriously as ones on law-firm letterhead.
What happens after we receive a notice
We acknowledge the notice, usually within two working days. An editor reviews the material against the claim. If the claim is valid, we remove or replace the material promptly and tell you what we did. If we believe the use is lawful, for example a short attributed quotation or a review screenshot, we will explain our reasoning rather than ignore you, and we are open to being argued out of it. Either way, you get an answer from a person.
Counter-notices
If material you contributed was removed following a notice and you believe the removal was mistaken, send a counter-notice to the same address containing: identification of the removed material and where it appeared, a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief it was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification, your name and contact details, consent to the jurisdiction of the courts applicable where the operator is established, and your signature. We will review it and, where appropriate, restore the material within a reasonable period unless the original complainant informs us they have sought a court order.
Repeat infringement and misuse
In the rare case that we accept outside contributions, a contributor whose work repeatedly draws valid infringement notices will not be published again. In the other direction: knowingly false infringement claims can carry legal liability for the sender, and we will push back on notices that attempt to use copyright process to suppress accurate reporting, for example a platform objecting to a dated screenshot of its own published fee schedule in a critical review.
Using our content
Our own work is covered by copyright too. Quote us briefly with a link and we are happy. Wholesale republication of articles, fee tables or comparisons, including automated scraping and republishing, requires permission in advance from support@internationalfreelancersday.com. We watch for scraped copies of our guides and we do file notices of our own.
