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Notice and Takedown Policy

Special Collections & Archives

In making digitised material from our Special Collections and Archives available online, DCU Library acts in good faith.  However, despite these safeguards, we recognise that material published online may occasionally be in breach of copyright laws or contain sensitive content. 

If you are concerned that you have found material in our digitised collections for which you have not given permission, contravenes privacy laws, is obscene / defamatory and in terms of copyright law is not covered by a limitation or exception, please contact us in writing stating the following:

  • Your contact details.
  • The full details of the material.
  • The exact and full url where you found the material.
  • If the request relates to copyright, provide proof that you are the rights holder and a statement that, under penalty of perjury, you are the rights holder or are an authorised representative.
  • The reason for your request including but not limited to copyright law, privacy laws, data protection, obscenity, defamation etc.

 

Contact Details:

Special Collections and Archives
O'Reilly Library
DCU Glasnevin Campus
Collins Avenue
Dublin 9

specialcollections.archives@dcu.ie

Upon receipt of notification the ‘Notice and Takedown’ procedure is then invoked as follows:

  1. DCU Library will acknowledge receipt of your complaint by email or letter and will make an initial assessment of the validity and plausibility of the complaint.
  2. Upon receipt of a valid complaint the material will be temporarily removed from the relevant collection pending an agreed solution.
  3. DCU Library will contact the contributor who deposited the material, if relevant. The contributor will be notified that the material is subject to a complaint, under what grounds, and will be encouraged to assuage the complaints concerned.
  4. The complainant and the contributor will be encouraged to resolve the issue swiftly and amicably and to the satisfaction of both parties, with the following possible outcomes:
    - The material is replaced unchanged
    - The material is replaced with changes
    - The material is permanently removed from the collection

If the contributor and the complainant are unable to agree a solution, the material will remain unavailable through the DCU Library website until a time when a resolution has been reached.