DMCA & Copyright Policy
Our Position on Copyright
CASINO NEWS PRESS respects intellectual property rights, both because the law requires it and because we depend on those same rights to protect our own journalism. This page explains how we use third-party material in our reporting, how rights holders can notify us of a claimed infringement, and how we respond to notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and equivalent laws in other jurisdictions.
How We Use Third-Party Material
News reporting on the gambling industry necessarily involves discussing other people’s work: operator announcements, regulator publications, earnings decks, and occasionally screenshots or promotional imagery. Our practices are:
- We quote from press releases, filings, and public statements in limited excerpts, with attribution, for the purpose of reporting and commentary. We believe this constitutes fair use or fair dealing under applicable law.
- Regulatory documents, legislation, and court records are public documents, and we quote and link to them freely.
- Images are used under license, with permission, from official press kits provided for media use, or under a good-faith fair use analysis for newsworthy material. We credit sources where credit is due.
- We link to original sources as standard practice, because readers deserve to see the primary material and creators deserve the traffic.
If we have used something of yours in a way you believe exceeds these bounds, we would honestly rather hear from you informally first: a quick email to support@casinonewspress.com often resolves things in a day without any formal process. But the formal process is always available, as follows.
Filing a DMCA Takedown Notice
If you are a copyright owner, or authorized to act for one, and you believe content on casinonewspress.com infringes your copyright, send a written notice to support@casinonewspress.com with the subject line DMCA. To be valid, your notice must include:
- Identification of the copyrighted work you claim is infringed, or a representative list if there are several
- The exact URL(s) on our site where the allegedly infringing material appears, specific enough for us to locate it
- Your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address
- A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized 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 authorized to act on the owner’s behalf
- Your physical or electronic signature
Incomplete notices may not be actionable, and we will tell you what is missing rather than silently ignoring them. Please note that misrepresenting that material is infringing can expose you to liability for damages under the DMCA.
What Happens After We Receive a Notice
We review valid notices promptly, normally within a few business days. If the claim is substantiated, we will remove or disable access to the material and note the removal where appropriate. If the material was posted with a good-faith fair use justification, we may respond explaining our position rather than removing it; the DMCA process accommodates that disagreement, and courts, not takedown notices, ultimately decide fair use.
Counter-Notices
If material you posted or that concerns you was removed and you believe the removal was a mistake or misidentification, you may file a counter-notice to the same address containing:
- Identification of the removed material and the URL where it previously appeared
- A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification
- Your name, address, and telephone number, and consent to the jurisdiction of the courts in your district (or an applicable district if you are outside the relevant country)
- Your physical or electronic signature
On receiving a valid counter-notice we may restore the material within the statutory window unless the original complainant informs us they have filed a court action.
A Note on Takedown Abuse
We are a news publication covering an industry in which companies sometimes prefer that unflattering coverage disappear. Copyright notices are for copyright, not for suppressing accurate reporting. Notices that appear designed to remove lawful journalism rather than protect creative work will be scrutinized accordingly, and we reserve every defense the law provides. If you dispute the accuracy of our reporting, the correct route is our Corrections Policy, which we take very seriously.
Repeat Infringers
In the unlikely event that any contributor to this site repeatedly infringes the rights of others, we will terminate their involvement. We hold ourselves to the standard we ask of everyone else.
Protecting Our Own Work
Our journalism is regularly scraped and republished without permission. If you want to license our content, syndicate it, or reuse it beyond brief attributed quotation, ask first: support@casinonewspress.com. If you see our work republished wholesale elsewhere, we appreciate the heads-up.
