Periodically, we experience situations where people have uploaded clips to video sharing sites that TenduTV has under license. The more work we secure, the more we find unauthorized copies floating around on the web. Sometimes, the work has been uploaded by a friend, a sponsor, an affiliate or a donor of a company. Sometimes the work was uploaded prior to our licensing the material, sometimes the work was uploaded after the work was contracted.

Our standard operating procedure is to immediately file an infringement claim whenever and wherever this infringing video is found. If we believe that the person responsible for uploading the video is affiliated with the content owner, we may contact the copyright owner directly, but only after we have filed the takedown notice.

In cases where the licensor/copyright owner is the person responsible for uploading the video and is recognizeable as such, we will reserve taking action whenever possible.

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