Notice and takedown policy

Advice for rights holders

Notice and takedown procedure

Please email LJMU_e-theses_service@ljmu.ac.uk if you are a rights holder and are concerned that you have found material in the LJMU E-Theses Collection for which either:

• You have not given permission
• The item is not covered by a limitation or exception in national law

Please email LJMU_e-theses_service@ljmu.ac.uk stating the following:

• Your contact details
• The full bibliographic details of the material
• The exact and full URL where you found the material
• Proof that you are the rights holder and a statement that, under penalty of perjury, you are the rights holder or are an authorised representative

Upon receipt of notification, the ‘Notice and Takedown’ procedure is then invoked as follows:

• LJMU will acknowledge receipt of your complaint by email or letter and will make an initial assessment of the validity and plausibility of the complaint.
• Upon receipt of a valid complaint, the material will be temporarily removed from the LJMU E-Theses Collection pending an agreed solution.
• LJMU will contact the contributor who deposited the material, if relevant. The contributor will be notified that the material is subject to a complaint, under what allegations, and will be encouraged to assuage the complaints concerned.
• The complainant and the contributor will be encouraged to resolve the issue swiftly and amicably and to the satisfaction of both parties, with the following possible outcomes:

The material is replaced on the LJMU E-Theses Collection unchanged

The material is replaced on the LJMU E-Theses Collection with changes

The material is permanently removed from the website

• If the contributor and the complainant are unable to agree a solution, the material will remain unavailable through the LJMU E-Theses Collection until a time when a resolution has been reached.