This document is provided in English as a courtesy, however our responses to inquiries will only be provided in Japanese. 


Our “livedoor Blog” service is a blogging service which allows anyone to create and run their own blog.

In the event that materials included on a blog created by a blog administrator (the person who creates a blog is called the blog administrator) infringe on copyright, privacy rights, or any other rights of the claimant (you), and you wish for us to block transmission of such materials, we will respond to such claim in accordance with the Act on the Limitation of Liability for Damages of Specified Telecommunications Service Providers and the Right to Demand Disclosure of Identification Information of the Senders (hereinafter, the “Provider Liability Limitation Act”), the relevant Japanese law.


In order to begin to address this in accordance with the Provider Liability Limitation Act(Fn. 1), the following must be provided in the prescribed format: (i) information necessary to the claim; (ii) identity verification documents; and, if making a claim through a proxy, (iii) power of attorney.


Note: If the claimant (you) is making a claim at the request, and on behalf, of the rightsholder or the person whose privacy, etc. has been infringed, then you are deemed to be a proxy.
If this is a claim from an unrelated third party not based upon a request from the rightsholder or person whose privacy, etc. has been infringed, we will be unable to address the claim as it falls outside the scope of the Provider Liability Limitation Act.


■ Response process under the Provider Liability Limitation Act
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1. Claimant contacts livedoor Corporation by e-mail with (i), (ii), and (iii).
(i) information necessary to the claim
(ii) identity verification documents
(iii) power of attorney (if making a claim through a proxy)


2. livedoor Corporation will confirm the details in (i), (ii), and (iii). We will contact you if there is any missing information.


3. livedoor Corporation will discuss with the blog administrator whether they consent to the items for blocking transmission under Article 3(2)(ii) of the Provider Liability Limitation Act. We anticipate that the discussions will take around 7 days.


4. In the absence of a clear refusal from the blog administrator, they will be deemed to have given consent and we will block transmission.


5. If there is a clear refusal from the blog administrator, we will contact you, the claimant.
Please be aware that the Provider Liability Limitation Act does not guarantee that the blog administrator will block the transmission of the relevant material.



(i) Information necessary to the claim
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Please e-mail your responses to the following items 1 through 6. We will notify the blog administrator of items 2 through 5 of the claim as-written. The name of you, the claimant, will only be disclosed to the blog administrator if you agree to item 6.

1. Name, address, and contact information
2. URL and location where the contents are uploaded


Please see the help page (below) for details on how to indicate the page.


3. Uploaded information
4. Right which has been infringed (name of the right; e.g., defamation, infringement of privacy, etc.)
5. Reason for claiming rights infringement
6. Permission to disclose name of the claimant (you) to the blog administrator


(ii) Identity confirmation documents
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You must submit both 1 and 2 below:
1. Driver’s license
2. Certificate of Registration

Note: If the claimant is not the person whose rights have been infringed, then please also send (iii) power of attorney together with the identity confirmation documents of the person whose rights have been infringed.

Please send a copy on which we can clearly confirm the name, address, and validity period (date of issuance).

Your private information and personal information will be handled in accordance with the livedoor Privacy Policy.
The identity confirmation documents you send will only be used within the scope necessary to the procedures for confirming the claimant’s identity and contacting the claimant, and will be destroyed once the proceedings have concluded.


(iii) Power of attorney
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If the claimant is a proxy, then please also send a power of attorney together with the identity verification documents of the person whose rights have been infringed.

Note: If the claimant is making a claim at the request of the rightsholder or the person whose privacy, etc. has been infringed, then you are deemed to be a proxy.
If this is a claim from a third party not based upon a request from the rightsholder or person whose privacy, etc. has been infringed, it falls outside the scope of the Provider Liability Limitation Act.

Fn. 1:
For information on the Provider Liability Limitation Act, please refer to the Provider Liability Limitation Act information website, provided by the Provider Liability Limitation Act Guidelines Review Council.

Provider Liability Limitation Act information website:
http://www.isplaw.jp/
(Japanese only)

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