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[Name of person using your copyrighted material]
You are using {pictures, graphics or text}, which I own the copyright of. The name of my copyrighted work is {names of pictures, graphics or text}. I have reserved all rights in these copyrighted {pictures, graphics or text}, which was first published in {add date} in {add place of first publication}. I registered the copyright with the U.S. copyright office on {add date}.
Your copying and or use of my {pictures, graphics or text} which appears on your web site at {name of website or publication}, is unauthorized. You neither asked for nor received permission to use the {pictures, graphics or text} nor to make or distribute copies of it. Therefore, I believe you have willfully infringed my rights under 17 USC §101, et seq. and could be liable for statutory damages as high as $100,000. Further, such copyright infringement is a direct violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
I demand that you immediately cease the use and distribution of the {pictures, graphics or text}, and all copies of it, and that you deliver to me all unused, undistributed copies of it, or destroy such copies immediately, and that you desist from this or any other infringement of my rights in the future.
If I have not received proof of compliance from you by {date}, I shall consider taking the full legal remedies available to rectify this situation.
Sincerely,
{Your Name}
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