Location of copyrighted work (where your original material is located): Oliver Hotham made contact via email on, asking if he could have the
Mr Hotham did not state that this was going to be published online on
the internet. It appears Mr Hotham is not a reporter, or journalist at all, but a student.This material was published on wordpress.com at
http://oliverhotham.wordpress.com/2013/08/03/its-great-when-youre-straight-yeah/
You took it down after we contact you.
Mr Hotham has now put up another post located here:
http://oliverhotham.wordpress.com/2013/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-how-i-was-censored-by-straightpride-uk/
Mr Hotham is also encouraging other wordpress.com users to repost his blog post.
We would be grateful you would remove the following links
http://oliverhotham.wordpress.com/2013/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-how-i-was-censored-by-straightpride-uk/
http://fromthechalkface.wordpress.com/2013/08/12/oliver-hotham-its-great-when-youre-straightyeah/
Mr Hotham is perusing a code of conduct that amounts to harassment, and is encouraging others to harass us and repost his block which contains our name, links and wording to their blogs hosted on wordpress.com
Protection from Harassment Act 1997
(http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/s_to_u/stalking_and_harassment/#a02a)
S.2 offence Harassment
The elements of the section 2 offence are:
a course of conduct;
which amounts to harassment of another; and
which the defendant knows, or ought to know amounts to harassment of another.
Or section 1(1A), as inserted by section 125(2) of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act
2005 (SOCPA)
a course of conduct;
which involves harassment of two or more persons; and
which the defendant knows or ought to know involves harassment of those persons;
by which he intends to persuade any person (whether or not one of those mentioned above);
not to do something that he is entitled or required to do; or
to do something that he is not under any obligation to do.
I would appreciate your prompt action in removing these and any other posts and if possible disabling Mr Hotham access to wordpress.com as he doesn't seem to able to adhere to your rules of not writing about it again.
Company Name: The Straight Forward Project
Copyright holder you represent (if other than yourself):
Please describe the copyrighted work so that it may be easily identified: Names, Web addreses,images logos.
And copyrighted text located on the links below.
“It has been brought to my attention that you have published the email that I sent you to, you did not state this in your email request, nor you did have consent to do this.
I therefore request that you take down the article that you have placed on your blog.
You have 7 days in which to do this, failing this I shall submit a DMCA to WordPress to have it removed.”
http://oliverhotham.wordpress.com/2013/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-how-i-was-censored-by-straightpride-uk/
http://fromthechalkface.wordpress.com/2013/08/12/oliver-hotham-its-great-when-youre-straightyeah/
Location (URL) of the unauthorized material on a WordPress.com site (NOT simply the primary URL of the site - example.wordpress.com; you must provide the full and exact permalink of the post, page, or image where the content appears, one per line):
http://oliverhotham.wordpress.com/2013/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-how-i-was-censored-by-straightpride-uk/
http://fromthechalkface.wordpress.com/2013/08/12/oliver-hotham-its-great-when-youre-straightyeah/
http://fuckstraightpride.wordpress.com/2013/08/12/its-great-when-youre-straight-yeah/
I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above as allegedly infringing is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.: Yes
I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is
allegedly infringed.: Yes
I understand that a copy of this infringement notice, including any contact information I provide
(address, telephone number, and email address), will be forwarded to the WordPress.com user
who uploaded the content at issue.: Yes
Signed on this date of (today's date, MM/DD/YYYY): 12/08/2013
Time: August 12, 2013 at 12:29 pm
[CHILLING EFFECTS: SEE ALSO NOTICE #113981; FURTHER,
WORD PRESS FILED A 17 USC 512(F) COMPLAINT: SEE ATTACHED PDF]
