Copyright & Notice-and-Takedown Policy

1. Our role

Nova System Inc. provides digital storage and hosting for content that subscribing firms and their clients upload to Meridian, such as documents, letters, templates, and files. We do not review or monitor that content in advance. We respect the intellectual property of others and expect our users to do the same.

2. Reporting alleged infringement

If you believe content hosted on Meridian infringes your copyright, send a written notice to legal@thenovasystem.com with the subject line "Copyright notice". A complete notice includes:

Your name, address, telephone number, and email address.
Identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed.
Identification of the material you claim is infringing, with enough detail for us to locate it, including a URL or file reference where possible.
The date and, where known, the electronic location data of the alleged infringement.
A statement of your interest or right in the work.
A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
A statement that the information in the notice is accurate.
Your physical or electronic signature.

Do not send a copyright notice to report a privacy concern, a defamation concern, or a request to delete your own personal information. For those, see the Privacy Policy and Account Deletion.

3. Canada: notice and notice

Nova System Inc. is a Canadian company. Under the notice-and-notice regime in the Copyright Act (Canada), where we receive a notice that meets the statutory requirements and relates to content we store, we forward that notice to the person responsible for the content, without disclosing that person's identity to you, and we retain records identifying that person for the period the statute requires.

The Canadian regime does not itself require us to remove content on receipt of a notice. It requires that the notice be passed on. Separately, we may remove or disable access to content under section 5 below.

4. United States: DMCA

For rights holders relying on the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a notice meeting the requirements of 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) may be sent to the same address. On receipt of a compliant notice we may remove or disable access to the material and will notify the person who posted it, who may submit a counter-notice under section 6.

5. Removal or disabling access

Regardless of the regime a notice is sent under, we may remove or disable access to content that we reasonably believe infringes a third party's rights, or that breaches the Acceptable Use Policy. Because Meridian holds case files that firms rely on to meet legal deadlines, we will, where lawful and practicable, notify the affected firm before restricting access to a case file, and we will preserve rather than destroy the material while a dispute is unresolved.

6. Counter-notice

If your content was removed or disabled and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, send a counter-notice to legal@thenovasystem.com including: your name and contact details, identification of the material and where it appeared, a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification, and your signature. We will forward the counter-notice to the complainant and may restore the material unless the complainant notifies us that it has filed a court action.

7. Repeat infringers

We maintain a repeat-infringer policy. Accounts of users who are the subject of repeated, substantiated notices of infringement may be suspended or terminated, in accordance with the Master Subscription Agreement.

8. Misuse of this process

Knowingly making a material misrepresentation in a notice or a counter-notice can carry liability, including for damages and costs. We may decline to act on a notice that is incomplete, sent in bad faith, or that appears intended to suppress lawful use.