DMCA & Copyright Policy

How we treat copyright

Newfound Times respects the copyright of others and expects the same respect for our own work. We publish text we have written, images we own or license, and material used with permission or under a recognised exception such as fair use or fair dealing. If we have made a mistake and used something we should not have, we want to fix it quickly, and this page tells you how to make that happen.

It also tells you what to do if you believe your rights were removed in error, because copyright complaints run in both directions and an honest process has to account for both.

If you believe we have infringed your work

Send a notice to support@newfoundtimes.com with COPYRIGHT at the front of the subject line. To act on it, we need enough detail to identify the work and verify the claim. Please include the following.

A clear description of the copyrighted work you say has been used, with a link or copy of the original where possible.
The exact location on our site, by URL, where the material you are complaining about appears.
Your name and a contact address we can reply to.
A statement that you believe in good faith the use was not authorised by you, your agent, or the law.
A statement that the information in your notice is accurate, and that you are the rights holder or are authorised to act for them.
Your physical or electronic signature.

Incomplete notices slow everything down, because we cannot act on a complaint we cannot verify. A specific URL and a link to the original resolve most cases within a day or two.

What we do when a valid notice arrives

When we receive a complete, good faith notice, we review it promptly. If the claim is sound, we remove or disable access to the material, and we tell you we have done so. Where the material was central to a story, we may replace it with properly licensed material or rewrite the passage so the reporting survives without the disputed content.

Sometimes the right answer is not removal but attribution or a licence, and we are happy to have that conversation. We would rather credit and keep a photograph, with the owner’s agreement, than lose it from a story where it belongs. Either way, the record of the story is preserved as far as the law and the rights holder allow, in keeping with our practice of not quietly deleting published journalism.

Counter notice, if we removed your material in error

If your material was taken down and you believe that was a mistake, or that the use was lawful, send a counter notice to the same address with COPYRIGHT COUNTER in the subject line. Include a description of what was removed and where it appeared, your contact details, a statement under penalty of perjury that you believe in good faith the material was removed in error, and your signature. We will review it, and where appropriate we restore the material.

Filing a notice or a counter notice in bad faith can carry legal consequences for the person filing it. Please be sure of your position before you send either one.

Quoting and reusing our work

You may quote a reasonable extract of our articles with clear credit to Newfound Times and, online, a link back to the original story. That is normal, and we welcome it. What you may not do is republish whole articles, sell our content, or present our reporting as your own. Requests to reproduce more than a short extract, to syndicate a piece, or to license an image we own go to support@newfoundtimes.com, and we usually say yes to reasonable requests made in advance.

Automated harvesting of our content at scale, including for building a dataset or training a model, is not permitted without our written agreement, as our terms of service set out.

Repeat infringers and honest mistakes

We keep a record of copyright complaints. Where a contributor or a source repeatedly supplies material that is not theirs to give, we stop working with them, because a pattern is a decision and not an accident. At the same time we know that rights are complicated and that people make honest mistakes about what they may use. We aim to treat a first, good faith error very differently from a habit, and we ask you to extend us the same fairness if we are ever the ones who slipped.