DMCA Policy

Last updated: 2 September 2026

World Report Network respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects users of this Site to do the same. This page explains how to notify us of material you believe infringes your copyright, how we respond, and how someone whose material has been removed can contest that removal.

Our procedure follows the notice-and-takedown framework of the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512. We apply the same process to complaints under other copyright regimes, including the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and the EU Copyright Directive.

1. Before you send a notice

Two things are worth checking first, because they resolve a large share of complaints without anyone needing to file anything.

  • Is the use licensed? Many images on this Site are used under Creative Commons or similar open licences, and are credited with the licence name beneath or beside the image. If the credit names a licence, the use is permitted by that licence’s terms.
  • Is it fair use or fair dealing? Quotation of a short extract for the purposes of news reporting, criticism, review or comment is permitted by law and does not require permission. Copyright does not protect facts, news of the day, ideas, titles or short phrases — only the particular expression of them.

If, having considered that, you still believe your work has been used unlawfully, please continue.

2. How to file a copyright infringement notice

Send your notice to our designated agent:

Copyright Agent, World Report Network
Email: [email protected]
Subject line: DMCA Takedown Notice

World Report Network
Deepika Naisbitt
8511 142A St
Surrey, BC V3W 0Z8
Canada
Telephone: +1 604 575 9176
Email: support [at] worldreportnetwork [dot] com

2.1 What a valid notice must contain

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), a notice must include all of the following. A notice missing any of these elements is not legally effective, and we may not be able to act on it.

  1. Your physical or electronic signature, as the copyright owner or a person authorised to act on the owner’s behalf.
  2. Identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed. If multiple works at this Site are covered by a single notice, a representative list of them.
  3. Identification of the infringing material, with enough detail for us to locate it. Please give the full URL of the page, and where the complaint concerns one image among several, identify which one.
  4. Your contact information — name, postal address, telephone number and email address.
  5. A statement that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
  6. A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act on the owner’s behalf.

2.2 What helps us act faster

  • A link to the original publication of your work, or other evidence of when and where it first appeared.
  • The registration number, if the work is registered.
  • An explanation of why you consider the use to fall outside fair use or fair dealing, if that is likely to be in issue.

3. Warning: misrepresentation carries liability

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing may be liable for damages, including costs and legal fees incurred by the alleged infringer, by the copyright owner, or by us.

Copyright notices are sometimes used to try to remove accurate but unwelcome journalism. We take that seriously in both directions: we act promptly on genuine notices, and we scrutinise notices that appear to be aimed at suppressing reporting rather than protecting a work. If you are not sure whether you hold the rights you are asserting, take advice before filing.

4. What we do when we receive a notice

  1. Acknowledgement. We confirm receipt, normally within two working days.
  2. Review. We check that the notice is complete and consider whether the use is licensed, or whether fair use or fair dealing plainly applies.
  3. Action. Where the complaint appears well founded, we expeditiously remove or disable access to the material. Removal at this stage is not an admission that infringement occurred.
  4. Notification. We inform the contributor or author responsible for the material, provide them with a copy of your notice, and tell them how to file a counter-notice.
  5. Outcome. We confirm to you what action has been taken.

Where a complaint concerns an image, our usual first step is to remove or replace the image rather than unpublish an entire article, so that the reporting itself remains available.

5. Counter-notification

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake, or that the use was authorised or lawful, you may send a counter-notice to [email protected].

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3), a counter-notice must include:

  1. Your physical or electronic signature.
  2. Identification of the material removed and the location at which it appeared before removal.
  3. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
  4. Your name, postal address and telephone number.
  5. A statement consenting to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located — or, if you are outside the United States, of any judicial district in which we may be found — and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice or their agent.

Please note: under § 512(f), knowingly misrepresenting that material was removed by mistake also carries liability for damages.

5.1 What happens next

We forward your counter-notice to the original complainant. If they do not notify us within ten to fourteen business days that they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the activity, we may restore the removed material.

6. Repeat infringers

In accordance with 17 U.S.C. § 512(i), we have adopted and will reasonably implement a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts and access privileges of contributors who are repeat infringers.

7. Our own copyright

This policy runs both ways. The articles, headlines, analysis, photography and design on this Site are our copyright or are licensed to us. If you find our work republished elsewhere without permission or credit, we would be glad to hear about it — write to [email protected] with a link.

For permission to republish, translate or syndicate our material, see section 4 of our Terms & Conditions or write to [email protected].

8. Non-copyright complaints

This page is for copyright only. For other concerns, please use the right address so your complaint reaches the right desk:

9. Transparency

Where a takedown results in the removal of published journalism, we will normally note on the page that material has been removed following a copyright complaint, rather than allowing an article to change silently. We do not publish complainants’ personal contact details.

10. Changes to this policy

We may update this page from time to time; the “last updated” date above reflects the current version.