violation

Copyright: So who is going to check?

 * GVC will investigate notices of copyright infringement and take appropriate actions under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, upon verified notification.
 * If you want to put something on your website that you didn't make yourself, please get permission from the owner of the copyright to use it.
 * What is the GVC Project Manager going to do if you find a GVC website with copyright violations? If the Project Manager does not find any permission or consent documentation, then we will notify the team and ask it to remove the copyrighted material from its website, or we will remove/block it ourselves.
 * Web sites with many copyright violations may be disqualified or will NOT receive high scores.

What if it is years later?
We will still remove the violation and replace the "missing space" with a notice that it was removed for violation of copyright! Yes, we are serious.

Example 1:
We received an email to remove a picture from the 2006 contest year and did so. Here is a small portion of the email we received: //I am the owner of the photo, shown below, of the umpire posted on your site. This photo needs to be removed immediately from your site and server along with any tags, meta data, meta tags etc. All image search engines advise against using photos without the explicit permission of the owner. Also all content, graphics, photos etc.,on a web site, are copyright protected.// //Bernadette H.// 

Example 2:
Here also is one that was from the 2004 contest year - there is no 'expiration' on copyright violation! //"The avalanche photo you are using on your website is a copyrighted photograph and you do not have permission to reproduce it. The source is NSIDC but the caption says directly that this photo is copyrighted (and protected) by the photographer, Richard Armstrong.// //Please respond immediately."// and later that day after the picture was removed... //"Thank you very much for the quick reply.// //I appreciate your taking this seriously."// //Richard//