Copyright/Trademark Notices

The IAC Search & Media Marks that appear throughout the Company's web sites belong to IAC Search & Media and are protected by U.S. and international trademark laws. Ask.com and the "ask" button are registered trademarks of IAC Search & Media. The stylized "Ask" logo, Ask for Kids, Ask Shopping Guide, Branded Response, Branded Animation, Premier Listings, Keyword Network, Direct Hit, Direct Hit Search, Popularity Engine, Popularity Ranking Engine, Popularity Search Engine, Personalized Search, Personalized Search Engine, Personalized Results, Ask Analytics, and other Ask logos and product and service names are service marks or trademarks of IAC Search & Media (the "IAC Search & Media Marks").

Copyrights Infringement Claims

IAC Search & Media asks our users to respect the intellectual property of others. Pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. sec. 512 ("the DMCA"), IAC Search & Media has designated an agent to receive Notifications of Claimed Copyright Infringement on its site, who can be reached as follows:

Through this form, or by mail at:

IAC Search & Media
Attention: General Counsel
555 12th Street, Suite 500
Oakland, CA 94607

If you believe in good faith that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide IAC Search & Media's copyright agent the following:

Your address, telephone number, and email address;
A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Site;
A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf;
An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest.

In lieu of preparing your own Notification, you may print this Notification of Claimed Copyright Infringement form, complete and sign it, and mail it to our copyright agent at the above address.

Pursuant to the DMCA, once we receive a properly prepared Notification asserting copyright infringement, we will de-link the allegedly infringing site until we receive a properly prepared Counter-Notification. Even after we de-link an allegedly infringing site, it is possible that the site will reappear once a further search is run, due to the technology that many search engines employ in conducting searches for our users. Therefore, a more effective way to remove allegedly infringing material is by filing a Notification of Claimed Copyright Infringement with the Internet service provider that hosts the website.

If a Notification of Claimed Copyright Infringement has been filed with us against you, IAC Search & Media will advise you of that fact. If you would like to file a Counter-Notification of Claimed Copyright Infringement, we will provide you with a mail-in form that accompanies our letter to you advising you of the claimed infringement.

You may want to seek independent legal counsel before filing a notification or counter-notification.