DMCA & Copyright Policy

Adapt Learning, LLC (“Adapt,” “we,” “us”) respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects the people who use the Service to do the same. This policy explains how to notify us of material you believe infringes your copyright, how the person who submitted that material can respond, and when we terminate accounts for repeated infringement. It is incorporated by reference into our Terms of Service.

1. Designated Copyright Agent

Send copyright infringement notifications to our designated agent:

Copyright Agent
Adapt Learning, LLC
815 Water Street, Unit B1911, Tampa, FL 33602
Email: dmca@adaptlearning.io
Phone: +1 (813)-444-3537

This agent is registered with the U.S. Copyright Office Directory of Designated Agents under 17 U.S.C. §512(c)(2).

2. How to Submit a Copyright Infringement Notification

To be effective under 17 U.S.C. §512(c)(3)(A), your written notification must include all six of the following. A notice missing any of them may not trigger our obligations, and we may ask you to supply what is missing.

1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed — or, if multiple works at a single site are covered by one notification, a representative list of those works.
3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate it. Please be as specific as you can: the course, lesson, or class name, the account or institution involved, and where in the Service you encountered it.
4. Your contact information — address, telephone number, and, if available, an email address.
5. A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and — under penalty of perjury — that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Misrepresentation. Under 17 U.S.C. §512(f), anyone who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing may be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees, incurred by the alleged infringer, by any copyright owner or licensee, and by us. If you are not certain whether the material is infringing, consider seeking legal advice before sending a notice.

3. What We Do When We Receive a Notice

On receipt of a notification that substantially complies with Section 2, we will:

1. Expeditiously remove or disable access to the material identified, which may include unpublishing a course, withdrawing an assignment so it no longer reaches students, or disabling an uploaded source file.
2. Take reasonable steps to notify the instructor, account, or institution that submitted the material that it has been removed or disabled, and provide them a copy of the notice.
3. Record the notice against the submitting account for the purposes of Section 5.

We may act on a notice without determining whether the material is in fact infringing. Removal is not a finding against the person who submitted the material.

4. Counter-Notification

If your material was removed or disabled and you believe that was the result of mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter-notification to the agent in Section 1. To be effective under 17 U.S.C. §512(g)(3), it must include all four of the following:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material that was removed or disabled and the location at which it appeared before it was removed or disabled.
3. 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.
4. Your name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located — or, if your address is outside the United States, for any judicial district in which Adapt may be found — and that you will accept service of process from the person who submitted the original notification, or their agent.

On receipt of an effective counter-notification we will forward it to the original complainant and inform them that we will restore the material in not less than 10 and not more than 14 business days, unless our designated agent first receives notice that the complainant has filed an action seeking a court order to restrain the allegedly infringing activity. The same §512(f) misrepresentation liability described in Section 2 applies to counter-notifications.

5. Repeat Infringer Policy

Under 17 U.S.C. §512(i) we have adopted and will reasonably implement the following policy, and we inform every account holder of it through our Terms of Service and this page.

How a strike is recorded. An account receives a strike when material it submitted is removed or disabled in response to a notification that substantially complies with Section 2, and either no counter-notification is submitted, or a counter-notification is submitted and the material is not restored.

A strike is withdrawn if the notice is retracted, if the material is restored following a counter-notification, or if we determine the notice was invalid or sent in bad faith.

Termination. We will terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who are repeat infringers. Our normal practice is:

We may terminate an account sooner — including on a first notice, and without prior warning — where the circumstances warrant it, for example where the infringement is flagrant, where an account exists substantially to distribute infringing material, or where we receive a court order. We may also decline to terminate where the strikes are stale, unrelated, or the product of an obvious error.

Effect of termination. Termination ends the licence granted in the Terms of Service and any remaining purchased access period, and we may remove content submitted by the terminated account. Where an institution’s account is terminated, we will make reasonable efforts to give the institution notice first so that its students are not stranded mid-term.

Records. We retain records of notifications, counter-notifications, strikes, and terminations for at least three years.

6. Instructor and Institutional Materials

The Service lets instructors and institutions upload their own teaching materials, which are then processed to generate course content. When you submit material to the Service you represent that you have the rights necessary for Adapt to process that material and to distribute the resulting content to your students. That representation is set out in Terms of Service Section 5(d) and, for institutional customers, in our Enterprise Master Services Agreement.

If you hold rights in material you believe has been submitted to the Service without that authority, this policy is how to reach us.

7. Reporting Content Inside the Service

The in-app “Report content” control is a general moderation channel — it is not a substitute for a copyright notification and does not meet the §512(c)(3)(A) requirements above. Copyright claims should be sent to the designated agent in Section 1.

8. Changes to this Policy

We may modify this policy. We will post the updated policy and update the Effective Date. If the designated agent changes, we will amend our registration with the U.S. Copyright Office and update Section 1.

9. Contact

Adapt Learning, LLC · 815 Water Street, Unit B1911, Tampa, FL 33602 · dmca@adaptlearning.io