darkpsychology.eu respects intellectual property rights and expects its users and readers to do the same. This policy describes the procedure to follow if you believe that content published on this site infringes your copyright or related rights.
1. Applicable legal framework
This policy combines:
- The notice-and-takedown procedure inspired by the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), as a recognised international standard
- The Spanish framework of Royal Legislative Decree 1/1996 (Consolidated Text of the Intellectual Property Law)
- Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (Digital Services Act, DSA), which establishes notification mechanisms for illegal content, including those that infringe intellectual property rights
Because this site is a personal editorial blog and not a hosting service or platform, our primary legal obligations are minimal under the DSA. However, we voluntarily adopt this transparent procedure as a matter of good faith.
2. Notification of copyright infringement (Notice)
If you are the holder of a copyright, or an authorised representative of one, and you believe that content on darkpsychology.eu reproduces your work without authorisation, send a notice to:
- Email: [CONTACT_EMAIL] (with subject line: DMCA / Copyright Notice)
- Postal address: [FULL_NAME], [POSTAL_ADDRESS], Toledo, Spain
Your notice must include the following information so that it can be processed:
- Identification of the protected work allegedly infringed (title, original publication date, registration if any)
- Specific URL on darkpsychology.eu where the allegedly infringing content is located
- Description of how the content infringes your rights
- Your full contact details (full name, postal address, email, phone if applicable)
- Statement of good faith: “I declare in good faith that the use of the material is not authorised by the rights-holder, their agent, or the law.”
- Statement of accuracy under penalty of perjury: “I declare under penalty of perjury that the information contained in this notice is accurate and that I am the rights-holder, or am authorised to act on their behalf.”
- Your physical or electronic signature
Incomplete notices may delay or prevent processing.
3. Our response procedure
Upon receipt of a complete notice:
- Acknowledgement of receipt within five (5) business days
- Review by the site owner of the validity of the claim
- Removal or restriction of the allegedly infringing content if the notice is well-founded, normally within fifteen (15) business days
- Notification to the original author of the content (if external) so they can respond
- Documentation of the entire process for our records
4. Counter-notification
If you are the original author of content that has been removed and you believe the removal was a mistake or based on a misidentification, you may send a counter-notification to [CONTACT_EMAIL] (subject: Counter-Notice) including:
- Identification of the removed content and the URL where it appeared
- Statement under penalty of perjury that you believe in good faith that the material was removed by mistake or misidentification
- Your full contact details
- Express consent to the jurisdiction of the courts of Toledo (Spain), or, if you reside outside Spain, of the competent courts in your jurisdiction
- Your physical or electronic signature
After receipt of a valid counter-notification, we may restore the content within ten (10) to fourteen (14) business days, unless the original complainant takes legal action against you and notifies us.
5. Repeat offenders
We reserve the right to permanently restrict access to the site (especially the comments system) of users who repeatedly infringe third-party copyright or related rights.
6. Abuse of the notification system
Sending false or abusive notifications can have legal consequences in many jurisdictions, including liability for damages. We reserve the right to disregard manifestly abusive notifications and, in serious cases, to take appropriate legal action.
7. Reporting other illegal content (DSA)
If you wish to report content on this site that you consider illegal under EU or Spanish law (without it being a copyright matter — for example, defamation, threats, hate speech), you may write to octavio@kerchak.com with the subject Illegal Content Notice (DSA), including:
- Specific URL of the content
- Reasons why you consider it illegal, with reference to the applicable rule
- Your contact details
- Statement of good faith
We will process the report in line with Article 16 of the DSA. As a small editorial blog, we are not subject to the most demanding DSA obligations applicable to large platforms, but we voluntarily commit to transparency and to processing reports in good faith.
8. Quotation right and educational use
Articles on darkpsychology.eu use third-party works (academic citations, book titles, study results) under the right of citation recognised by Article 32 of Spain’s Intellectual Property Law and equivalent provisions in EU and Berne Convention law. If you believe that any specific use exceeds the limits of fair quotation, please contact us — we will review and adjust where appropriate.
9. Changes to this policy
This policy may be updated to reflect changes in legislation or in our practices. The current version is available at /dmca/.
Last updated: 27 April, 2027