Effective date: August 9, 2026
lawyers.lyricalguy.com respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects readers and contributors to do the same. This page explains how to notify us of claimed copyright infringement on this site, and how to respond if your material was removed in error, under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512.
Our approach
Our guides to VA claims, appeals, and accredited representation are written in-house and cite official sources such as VA.gov, the eCFR, and cancer.gov. Federal government works are generally in the public domain, and we quote them with attribution and links. If we have nonetheless used protected material without permission, we want to correct it quickly rather than argue about it.
How to file a takedown notice
If you own a copyright, or are authorized to act for the owner, and you believe material on this site infringes it, send a written notice to our designated contact at support@lawyers.lyricalguy.com with the subject line “DMCA Notice.” To be effective under § 512(c)(3), your notice must include all six of the following:
- Identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed. If multiple works are covered by a single notice, provide a representative list of them.
- Identification of the material you claim is infringing, with enough detail for us to locate it — please give the full URL of each page on lawyers.lyricalguy.com, and quote or describe the specific passage, image, or element at issue.
- Your contact information: full legal name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
- A good-faith statement that you believe in good faith that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
- A statement of accuracy under penalty of perjury that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on the owner’s behalf.
- Your physical or electronic signature. Typing your full legal name in an email you send yourself is acceptable as an electronic signature.
Incomplete notices may not be actionable, so please include everything above. Notices sent to any other address may be delayed; use the support address.
What we do when we receive a notice
We review every properly submitted notice promptly. Where a claim appears valid, we will remove or disable access to the material expeditiously, and we may take a page offline pending resolution even before the question is fully settled — we would rather be cautious than infringe. We will make a reasonable effort to notify whoever posted or wrote the material, and we will tell you when action has been taken.
Counter-notification
If your material was removed and you believe it was removed by mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter-notification to support@lawyers.lyricalguy.com with the subject line “DMCA Counter-Notice.” Under § 512(g)(3) it must include:
- your physical or electronic signature;
- identification of the material that was removed and the location (URL) at which it appeared before removal;
- a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification;
- your full name, address, and telephone number; and
- a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the U.S. District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or, if your address is outside the United States, any judicial district in which this site’s operator may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice or their agent.
If we receive a valid counter-notification, we may forward it to the original complainant and inform them that we may restore the material in 10 to 14 business days unless they notify us that they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the allegedly infringing activity.
Repeat infringers
We maintain a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the access or contributor privileges of anyone who is found to be a repeat infringer. Because this site has no reader accounts, in practice this applies to writers and contributors: material from anyone who repeatedly submits infringing work is removed and that person is not published here again.
Misrepresentation
Please be careful before filing. Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), anyone who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing — or that it was removed by mistake — may be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees, incurred by the alleged infringer, the copyright owner, or the service provider. Takedown notices are not a tool for suppressing accurate criticism, competitive commentary, or fair-use quotation.
Fair use and quotation of our work
You are welcome to quote a short excerpt from our guides with clear attribution and a link back to the original page. Wholesale republication, scraping, or reuse of our material in law-firm or claims-service marketing is not permitted; see our Terms and Conditions. If you find our work copied elsewhere, we appreciate a note at the support address.
Contact
All copyright correspondence: support@lawyers.lyricalguy.com. We respond within a few business days. For other matters, see Contact Us and our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle the personal information contained in a notice.