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Cease and Desist Letter

This letter is a cease and desist notice regarding copyright infringement of a literary/artistic/musical/graphic work. The recipient is accused of copying or using substantially similar material from the copyrighted work without permission on their website. The letter demands that the recipient immediately remove the infringing content, credit the original authors, cease future use of the copyrighted material, and respond by a specified deadline to confirm their compliance. Legal action is threatened if the demands are not met.

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Cease and Desist Letter

This letter is a cease and desist notice regarding copyright infringement of a literary/artistic/musical/graphic work. The recipient is accused of copying or using substantially similar material from the copyrighted work without permission on their website. The letter demands that the recipient immediately remove the infringing content, credit the original authors, cease future use of the copyrighted material, and respond by a specified deadline to confirm their compliance. Legal action is threatened if the demands are not met.

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<<INSERT LETTERHEAD>>

<<INSERT DATE>>

Dear Sir/Madam,

We are the proprietors of all copyright in the <<INSERT EITHER:


literary/artistic/musical/graphic>> work entitled <<INSERT NAME(S)>> (the “Work”).

It has come to our attention that your work entitled <<INSERT NAME(S)>> is
identical/substantially similar to our copyrighted Work. The infringing work appears on a site
operated by you at <<INSERT LINK>>. We have reserved all rights in the Work, which was
first published on <<INSERT LINK>> in <<INSERT DATE OF PUBLICATION>>.

Permission was neither asked nor granted to reproduce our Work and your work therefore
constitutes infringement of our rights. The infringement is unacceptable to us.

If proceedings become necessary (which may be issued and served without further notice to
you), the remedies available to us include an injunction against your continued infringement,
as well as damages for the loss we have suffered as a result of your infringing conduct in
addition to legal costs and interest.

In the circumstances, we demand that you immediately: (N.B. Please choose the ones
applicable)

1. remove all infringing content from your site immediately and notify us in
writing that you have done so;
2. credit all infringing content to ourselves in the following manner
<<INSERT DETAILS>> and pay a licensing fee in the amount of
£<<INSERT AMOUNT>>;
3. immediately cease the use and distribution of our copyrighted material;
4. deliver-up to us all infringing Work in your possession, custody or control;
5. undertake in writing to desist from using any of our copyrighted work in
future without prior written authority from us.
6. remove any further work that infringe our copyright;
7. post an apology on your site <<INSERT LINK>> clarifying who the real
author is and giving credit to us for the Work.

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We expect to hear from you by no later than close of business on <<INSERT DATE>>.

Yours faithfully,

<<INSERT SIGNATURE>>

This cease and desist letter is based on a free document supplied by The Legal Stop Limited
through its website www.thelegalstop.co.uk

[PLEASE RETAIN THIS CREDIT AND HYPERLINK IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS
OF THE LICENCE UNDER WHICH THE TEMPLATE IS PROVIDED. THE HYPERLINK
SHOULD POINT TO:

www.thelegalstop.co.uk

YOU CAN HOWEVER DELETE THIS NOTE]

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