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Service Provider: Old Dominion University

Address of Service Provider: Norfolk, Virginia 23529

Agent Designated to Receive Notification of Claimed Copyright Infringement (DMCA Agent): Rita Woltz, General Counsel

Full Address of Designated Agent to which Notification should be sent: Rm 214 Koch Hall, Norfolk, VA 23529

Telephone Number of Designated Agent: 757-683-3144

Email Address of Designated Agent: rwoltz@odu.edu

Old Dominion University Draft Policy and Procedures for
Enforcement of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)

In order to reduce contributory and vicarious liability for Old Dominion University information service providers, the University has a central, designated agent to handle claims of copyright infringement as established by the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The DMCA requires that service providers identify its DMCA agent on its website. Since Old Dominion University's online system comprises several internet domains and hundreds of websites, the University is currently identifying its DMCA agent at its root web server.

If a University employee or student receives a notice or allegation of copyright infringement, h/she is to send the notice to the University's designated DMCA agent. To report a claim of infringment, the DMCA requires that a claim of copyright infringment sent to our DMCA agent provide certain information. Please contact our DMCA agent for details.

The DMCA agent will promptly acknowledge receipt of each infringement claim. On receipt of an acceptably complete claim of infringement, the DMCA requires that the DMCA agent direct the prompt removal of the material or removal of all local or wide-area network access to the material or activity claimed to be infringing.