What is MyColoradoGateway policy on copyright infringement?
TouchTower respects the rights of copyright holders and publishers and requires all members to affirm that they hold the copyright or have permission for the content that they upload. If we receive a notice that content infringes another party's copyright, the content will be removed from TouchTower. Use our links for more information about our Privacy Policy, Legal Notice or Terms of Use.

How To Make Sure Your Video Does Not Infringe Someone Else's Copyrights
The way to ensure that your video or images doesn't infringe someone else's copyright is to use your skills and imagination to create something completely original. It could be as simple as taping some of your friends goofing around, and as complicated as filming your own short movie with a script, actors, and the whole works. If it's all yours, you never have to worry about the copyright—you own it! Make sure to follow the other guidelines in the terms of use, too.

Be sure that all components of your video or images are your original creation—even the audio portion. For example, if you use an audio track of a sound recording owned by a record label without that record label's permission, your video is infringing the copyrights of others, and we will take it down as soon as we become aware of it.

Commercial Content Is Copyrighted
The most common reason we take down videos for copyright infringement is that they are direct copies of copyrighted content and the owners of the copyrighted content have alerted us that their content is being used without their permission. Once we become aware of an unauthorized use, we will remove the video promptly. That is the law.

Some examples of copyrighted content (although not all) are:

TV shows
Including sitcoms, sports broadcasts, news broadcasts, comedy shows, cartoons, dramas, etc.
Includes network and cable TV, pay-per-view and on-demand TV
Music videos, such as the ones you might find on music video channels
Videos of live concerts, even if you captured the video yourself
Even if you took the video yourself, the performer controls the right to use his/her image in a video, the songwriter owns the rights to the song being performed, and sometimes the venue prohibits filming without permission, so this video is likely to infringe somebody else's rights.
Movies and movie trailers
Commercials
Slide shows that include photos or images owned by somebody else
A Few Guiding Principles
It doesn't matter how long or short the clip is, or exactly how it got to TouchTower. If you taped it off cable, videotaped your TV screen, or downloaded it from some other website, it is still copyrighted, and requires the copyright owner's permission to distribute.
It doesn't matter whether or not you give credit to the owner/author/songwriter—it is still copyrighted.
It doesn't matter that you are not selling the video for money—it is still copyrighted.
It doesn't matter whether or not the video contains a copyright notice—it is still copyrighted.
It doesn't matter whether other similar videos appear on our site—it is still copyrighted.
It doesn't matter if you created a video made of short clips of copyrighted content—even though you edited it together, the content is still copyrighted.

What are you doing to prevent copyrighted content from appearing in TouchTower
Since all content on TouchTower is posted by our members, we make it clear in our terms of use and at the time of upload that they must own the copyright to the videos or images they post or have permission from the copyright holder. We take copyright issues very seriously and encourage copyright holders to contact us if they have any objections about specific videos or images—we will cooperate with them to take down any infringing content immediately. Repeat and flagrant offenders of the terms of use are addressed with proprietary technology.

How do I report copyright infringement?
If you believe that someone else has uploaded your copyrighted content without your permission, please contact us to submit a copyright notification.

What if I have been falsely accused of copyright infringement?
We'll let you know if we receive a copyright complaint about any of your video or image content that is hosted on TouchTower. We'll also give you the opportunity to file a counter-notification.

How do I report inappropriate videos?
If you see a video or image that you think is inappropriate based on our terms of use, you can report it to us for review by clicking the "Inappropriate" link .

How does MyColoradoGateway handle inappropriate content?
We remove the video po image content ASAP.