DMCA Policy

Intellectual Property Rights

Pitch respects the intellectual property rights of third parties and responds to allegations that protected material has been shared through the Pitch platform. If you believe that material on the Pitch platform infringes your rights, please notify us by e-mail to support@pitch.com

For claims of copyright infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), please see the following DMCA Notice.

DMCA NOTICE

Pitch Software GmbH (“Pitch”) respects the intellectual property rights of third parties and responds to allegations that copyrighted material has been shared through Pitch’s platform (“Platform”) without authorization from the copyright holder in accordance with the safe harbor set forth in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”). Pitch will also, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, disable and/or terminate the use of the Platform by users who may infringe or repeatedly infringe the copyrights of others in accordance with the DMCA.

A. Notification of Alleged Copyright Infringement

If you believe that your work has been copied and made available through the Platform in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, you may send a written document to Pitch’s Designated Agent (as set forth below) that contains the following (a “Notice”):

A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed.
Identification of the URL or other specific location that contains the material that you claim infringes your copyright described in Item 1 above. You must provide us with reasonably sufficient information to locate the allegedly infringing material.
An electronic or physical signature of the owner of the copyright or of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright.
A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or applicable law.
A statement by you that the information contained in your Notice is accurate and that you attest under the penalty of perjury that you are the copyright owner or that you are authorized to act on the owner's behalf.
Your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.

Pitch’s Designated Agent for Notice of claims of copyright infringement can be reached as follows:

Attn: Pitch DMCA Agent

RIEBLING IP, PLLC

1717 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 1025, Washington, DC 20006 USA

Attn: Jutta M. Frankfurter

Telephone: 202.631.2021

Email: jutta.frankfurter@rieblinglaw.com

Please note that you may be liable for damages, including court costs and attorneys’ fees, if you misrepresent that content uploaded by Platform user is infringing your copyright.

Upon receiving a proper Notice, Pitch will remove or disable access to the allegedly infringing material and notify the alleged infringer of your claim. We will also advise the alleged infringer of the DMCA Counter Notice Procedure described below in Section B by which the alleged infringer may respond to your claim and request that we restore this material.

B. Counter Notice Procedure

If you believe your own copyrighted material has been removed from the Platform in error, you may submit a written Counter Notice to our Designated Agent (as identified above) that includes the following:

Identification of the material that has been removed or disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or disabled.
A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court in which your address is located, or if your address is outside the United States, the Northern District of California or any other judicial district in which Pitch may be found.
A statement that you will accept service of process from the party that filed the Notice or the party's agent.
Your name, address and telephone number.
A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief that the material in question was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.
Your physical or electronic signature.

If you send our Designated Agent a valid, written Counter Notice meeting the requirements described above, we will restore your removed or disabled material within 10 to 14 business days from the date we receive your Counter Notification, unless our Designated Agent first receives notice from the party filing the original Notice informing us that such party has filed a court action to restrain you from engaging in infringing activity related to the material in question.

Please note that if you misrepresent that the disabled or removed content was removed by mistake or misidentification, you may be liable for damages, including costs and attorney’s fees.

C. Repeat Infringer Policy

In accordance with the DMCA and other applicable laws, we will, at our discretion, disable and/or terminate access to the Platform by users who may infringe or repeatedly infringe the copyrights of others. This determination will be based on the number of “strikes” against the user. A “strike” is counted against a user each time there is an adjudication by a court, arbitrator or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction that the user has engaged in copyright infringement of any kind in relation to the Platform.

Each adjudication counts as a separate strike. If an adjudication pertains to multiple instances of copyright infringement, it can count as multiple strikes. Pitch has adopted a “three strikes and you’re out” policy under which a user who accumulates three strikes is considered a repeat infringer and may be subject to account termination.