Notice and takedown
How to make a copyright complaint about material on Open AssayIndex, what will be actioned, and what will not.
Scope
This page covers copyright complaints. It does not cover disputes about analytical results — those are the data policy, and the position there is that a laboratory result is not removed because it is unwelcome.
What is actionable
Reproduction of copyrightable expression: substantial verbatim text, a copyrighted image, or an original document reproduced in full. If any such material has been published here in error it will be removed on a substantiated notice.
What is not actionable
- Measurements. A purity figure is a fact about a physical object. Facts are not copyrightable in any jurisdiction the index is aware of.
- The fact that a certificate says something. Reporting that a supplier's certificate states 99.0 % is reporting a fact, not reproducing a document.
- Company names, trading names and domains, used as factual identifiers to attribute a record.
- Unfavourable analysis. A statistical statement about a supplier's records is not a copyright matter, and a notice that is plainly a reputation complaint dressed as one will be declined and logged.
Making a notice
A notice must identify the specific URL, identify the specific material claimed to be infringing, identify the work it is claimed to infringe, state the basis of the complainant's rights, and be made in good faith. Notices are actioned or declined within seven days, and the outcome is recorded.
Counter-notice
Material removed on notice may be restored on a substantiated counter-notice. Both the removal and the restoration appear on the corrections log, as every other change to this site does.