Q Fiber, LLC respects the intellectual property rights of others and is committed to complying with U.S. copyright laws, including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (“DMCA”). The DMCA provides recourse for owners of copyrighted material who believe their rights under U.S. copyright law have been infringed on the internet. The following defines the Digital Millennium Copyright Act Policy (the “Policy”) of Q Fiber, LLC (“Quantum Fiber”--collectively including parent companies, subsidiaries, and affiliates), relating to the use of Quantum Fiber’s network, websites, systems, facilities, and products and services.

This Policy applies to any services provided by Quantum Fiber operating companies, including services provided under the CenturyLink brand.

Quantum Fiber reserves the right to suspend or terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the service of users whose accounts are repeatedly implicated in allegations of copyright infringement. If you believe that any activity on Quantum Fiber’s network violates your copyrights, please submit a notification pursuant to the DMCA by providing the following information:

• Signature. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
• Identification of Copyrighted Work(s). 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;
• Identification of Infringing Material. 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 Lumen to locate the material;
• Contact Information for Complaining Party. Information reasonably sufficient to permit Lumen to contact the complaining party, such as address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted;
• Good Faith Statement. 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; and
• Statement Under Perjury. 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.

Please note that Quantum Fiber is a service provider of transitory digital network communications as contemplated by 17 U.S.C. § 512(a) of the DMCA. It is therefore not obligated to respond to any demands regarding, and has no duty to block, remove, or disable access to, material that is transmitted over, routed over or via connections to Quantum Fiber’s network(s), by a user or at a user’s direction or initiation. Given the large volume of such notifications it processes, Quantum Fiber does not respond to status inquiries made in connection with any individual notification or series of notifications.

You may send copyright notifications for services provided under CenturyLink, Quantum Fiber, and any of the following brands:

Bloomingdale Telephone Company, Inc.
CenturyLink
CenturyLink Communications, LLC
CenturyLink Minnesota, Inc.
CenturyLink of Florida, Inc.
CenturyLink of Nevada, LLC
Hillsboro Telephone Company, Inc.
Q Fiber, LLC
Qwest
Qwest Corporation
The El Paso County Telephone Company
United Telephone Company of the Northwest
United Telephone Company of the West

by contacting the Copyright Agent listed below:

Copyright Agent
Q Fiber, LLC
Legal Department
931 14th Street
Denver, CO 80202
Phone: 1-800-837-2047
Email: DMCA@CenturyLink.com

Counter Notification to Claimed Copyright Infringement

If a copyright infringement notice has been wrongly filed against you as a result of mistake or a misidentification of the material, you may file a counter notification with the relevant Copyright Agent listed above. The counter notification must provide the following information:

1. Physical or electronic signature of the subscriber;
2. Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled;
3. A statement under penalty of perjury that the subscriber has a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification;
4. The subscriber’s name, address, telephone number and email address, and a statement that the subscriber consents to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which the address is located, or if the subscriber’s address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which the service provider may be found, and that the subscriber will accept service of process from the person who provided notification or an agent of such person.

There are substantial penalties for sending false notices.

NOTE: The Copyright Agent(s) should only be contacted with respect to copyright-infringement matters. The Copyright Agent(s) will not respond to general inquiries.