Use of news stories presented here falls under the Fair Use provision of the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 USC § 107. The four factors to be taken into consideration are:

1. The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
• Pages on The Other Foot (hereinafter TOF) are of a transformative nature.
• The pages are presented as a comment on the original work, and are intended to provoke new insights about International relations.
• It is of the essence that the TOF page visually resemble the original page to present the transformed news item in a credible context.
• Their use is for nonprofit educational purposes.


2. The nature of the copyrighted work;
• The copyrighted works are of a factual nature, and TOF pages are commentary on those facts.


3. The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole;
• The pages presented are a small fraction of the original news stories available.


4. The effect of the use upon the potential market for, or value of, the copyrighted work;
• There can be no harm to the market of the original, for the original derives its value from being a true representation of events, and a TOF page derives its value from the opposite condition. It is not a direct market substitute for the original.
• The existence of a TOF page is likely to increase traffic to the original page.
• The existence of a TOF page is likely to provide advertising revenue to the copyright owner from the links on the TOF page.

Recourse for copyright owners

Olive Branch Communications, Inc. respects the intellectual property of others, and we request that our users do the same. Nonetheless, pages on this site appear here through the action of visitors, and may on occasion infringe copyright.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 ("DMCA") provides recourse for owners of copyrighted material who believe that their rights under U.S. copyright law have been infringed on the Internet.  Under the DMCA, copyright owners may contact the authorized agent of a site with information location tools that refer to infringing material.  Upon receipt of a properly filed complaint satisfying the requirements of the DMCA, Olive Branch Communications, Inc. will remove or block access to the allegedly infringing material. 

Notification of Claimed Copyright Infringement

Olive Branch Communications, Inc. has designated an agent to receive notifications of alleged copyright infringement in the Olive Branch Communications, Inc. domains:

Olive Branch Communications, Inc.
Attn:DMCA agent
223 E. Victoria St
Santa Barbara, CA 93101-2020
(805) 426-9700
dmca@olivebr.com

For your complaint to be valid under the DMCA, your notification of claimed infringement must be a written communication provided to the above designated agent that includes substantially the following:

1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site.
3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the material.
4. Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted.
5. A statement that the complaining party has 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 the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.