DMCA Notice

Some MLSes require their participants to display a DMCA (The Digital Millennium Copyright Act) notice on their websites. If you need a DMCA copy for your website and your MLS has not provided exact verbiage for you to use, you can use one below. Make sure to replace {YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS} with your actual email address or the email of your MLS's DMCA compliance officer to be in compliance.

For more information on DMCA see:

Participant's Rights, Section 16: Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Safe Harbor (by NAR)
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (by U.S. Copyright Office)
Your MLS's specific requirements regarding their DMCA notice. Note that if your MLS requires such a notice and you do not have one or your verbiage does not match their expectations, you are risking having your data feed access revoked.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, 17 U.S.C. § 512 (the “DMCA”) provides recourse for copyright owners who believe that material appearing on the Internet infringes their rights under U.S. copyright law. If you believe in good faith that any content or material made available in connection with our website or services infringes your copyright, you (or your agent) may send us a notice requesting that the content or material be removed, or access to it blocked. Notices must be sent in writing by email to {YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS} .

The DMCA requires that your notice of alleged copyright infringement include the following information: (1) description of the copyrighted work that is the subject of claimed infringement; (2) description of the alleged infringing content and information sufficient to permit us to locate the content; (3) contact information for you, including your address, telephone number and email address; (4) a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the content in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, or its agent, or by the operation of any law; (5) a statement by you, signed under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that you have the authority to enforce the copyrights that are claimed to be infringed; and (6) a physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf. Failure to include all of the above information may result in the delay of the processing of your complaint.