DMCA & Copyright Policy

The 7 Brews Menu respects the intellectual property rights of others and responds to properly submitted notices of claimed infringement in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. §512.

We take this seriously in both directions. We do not want infringing material on our pages, and we would rather hear from a rights holder directly than have a dispute escalate. Equally, we invest real work in original research and writing, and we act when it is copied wholesale.

Being precise here saves everyone time, because copyright and factual data are frequently confused.

We do not claim

• Factual data itself. A calorie count, a caffeine value or a price is a fact. Facts are not copyrightable and we make no claim over them.
• Brand names, logos or trademarks. These belong to their owners. See our non-affiliation and trademark notice.
• Official nutrition disclosures published by any company.

We do claim

• The compilation. Our selection, arrangement and structuring of data is a protected compilation, even where individual facts are not.
• Our editorial writing. Guides, explainers, comparisons, rankings, tasting notes and FAQ answers.
• Our calculation models and the reasoning documented in our Editorial Policy.
• Our original graphics, menu cards, illustrations and design system.
• Our software. The code behind every tool on this site.

If you own a copyright, or are authorised to act for the owner, and you believe material on this site infringes it, send a written notice to our designated contact:

Email

the7brewsmenu@gmail.com

Subject line

"DMCA Notice" for priority routing

Alternative route

Contact form, selecting the DMCA subject. Email is faster.

Review target

Within 2 business days of receipt

1. Identify the work. Describe the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed. For multiple works at one site, a representative list is acceptable.
2. Identify the material. Give the full URL of each page on our site containing the material, and describe it specifically enough that we can locate it, "the third image" or "paragraphs 2–4 under that heading".
3. Contact information. Your name, mailing address, telephone number and email address.
4. Good-faith statement. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
5. Accuracy statement. A statement that the information in the notice is accurate and that, under penalty of perjury, you are the owner or authorised to act on the owner's behalf.
6. Signature. A physical or electronic signature. Typing your full name in an email counts as an electronic signature.

Please also tell us whether you are the owner or an authorised agent, and if an agent, for whom. It speeds verification considerably.

1. Acknowledgement within 2 business days, confirming receipt and noting anything the notice is missing.
2. Review. We check that the notice is complete and assess the claim, including whether the use might be permitted. For example a short quotation with attribution, or an uncopyrightable fact.
3. Action. Where the claim is valid, we expeditiously remove or disable access to the material. We do not wait for a dispute to resolve before acting on a well-founded notice.
4. Documentation. We record what was removed, when, and on whose notice, as required to evidence proper handling.
5. Confirmation. We write back describing the action taken. Where we decline, we explain why and identify the basis, so you can decide how to proceed.
6. Prevention. Where the removal reveals a gap in our own process, we fix that too.

If material of yours was removed from this site and you believe the removal was a mistake or a misidentification, you may submit a counter-notification under §512(g). Send it to the same address with the subject line "DMCA Counter-Notification", including:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material that was removed and the location where it appeared before removal.
3. A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
4. Your name, address and telephone number.
5. A statement consenting to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the district where your address is located, or, if your address is outside the United States, any judicial district in which we may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the party who submitted the original notice or their agent.

We will forward your counter-notification to the original complainant. If they do not notify us within 10 to 14 business days that they have filed an action seeking a court order to restrain the activity, we may restore the material.

The takedown process exists to protect genuine copyright interests. It is not a tool for suppressing accurate reporting, unfavourable comparisons or lawful commentary.

Under 17 U.S.C. §512(f), anyone who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that it was removed by mistake. Is liable for damages, including costs and attorneys' fees, incurred by the injured party. We take that provision seriously in both directions, and we do not remove accurate, non-infringing content because someone dislikes it.

We do not host user-uploaded content and we operate no accounts, so the classic repeat-infringer scenario does not arise in the usual form. Nonetheless:

• Reader submissions that prove to infringe are removed and the contributor is not used again.
• Anyone who repeatedly submits infringing material is blocked from our submission channels.
• We maintain records of notices received and actions taken, in line with §512(i).

Our Terms of Service require that anything you send us is yours to share.

The DMCA covers copyright, not trademarks. Trademark concerns are handled separately, and if you represent a rights holder you can write to the same address with "Trademark Concern" in the subject line.

Our position is set out in the disclaimer: we reference brand and product names descriptively to identify what we are writing about, under nominative fair use. We do not claim ownership, do not imply endorsement, and state our non-affiliation prominently on every legal page and in the site footer. If a specific usage still causes a problem, tell us which page and what would resolve it. We would rather adjust wording than litigate it.

Our research takes time, and wholesale copying of it is not a compliment. If you find our tables, guides or graphics republished elsewhere without permission, we would appreciate a link at the7brewsmenu@gmail.com.

Where we find substantial copying, we contact the operator first and ask for removal or proper attribution. Where that fails, we file notices with the host, the CDN and the relevant search engines. We are proportionate about it: a short quotation with a link is exactly the reuse our Terms permit and we have no interest in discouraging it.

You do not need permission for any of the following, and we are glad when people do them:

• Linking to any page on this site, from anywhere.
• Quoting a short passage or a few data points with clear credit to The 7 Brews Menu and a link to the page used.
• Citing us in a video, article, forum post, newsletter or class assignment with attribution.
• Printing or saving pages, and downloading our PDF guides, for personal reference.

Written permission is required for:

• Reproducing a table or data set in substantial part, or a lightly reworded version of one.
• Any commercial use, including in a product, app or paid publication.
• Republishing our graphics, illustrations or menu cards.
• Automated collection for machine-learning datasets or generative reproduction.

Licensing enquiries: email us with what you want to use, where it will appear, and for how long. Educational, non-profit and journalistic requests are usually granted quickly and at no charge.

Copyright notices and counter-notifications

the7brewsmenu@gmail.com

Subject line

"DMCA Notice", "DMCA Counter-Notification" or "Trademark Concern"

Publisher

The 7 Brews Menu. Independent consumer publication, https://the7brewsmenu.com

Acknowledgement target

Within 2 business days

Related

Terms of Service. Intellectual property · Fair use & attribution

A mailing address for service of formal legal process is available on written request to the address above.