Copyright and DMCA policy

Bedford Realty, LLC respects copyright and expects the same of everyone using this site. We respond to notices of claimed infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512.

Most notices we receive concern photography. Listing photographs are typically licensed to a brokerage for the marketing of a specific property, and that licence does not automatically survive the listing or transfer to another brokerage. If you own photographs appearing on this site and believe they are being used without permission, tell us and we will look at it promptly.

Send notices of claimed infringement to our designated agent:

Email reaches us fastest. A notice sent to a sales address or through a contact form may take longer to route, so please use the subject line above.

To be effective under § 512(c)(3), a written notice must include substantially all of the following. A notice missing these elements may not trigger the statutory process, and we may have to come back to you for them.

1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, or a person authorised to act on their behalf.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed. If multiple works are covered by a single notice, a representative list.
3. Identification of the material claimed to be infringing, with enough detail for us to locate it — a direct URL on bedfordrealty.net is by far the most useful thing you can give us.
4. Your contact details: name, postal address, telephone number and email address.
5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent or the law.
6. A statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and — under penalty of perjury — that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act on their behalf.

Please note § 512(f): a person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing may be liable for damages, including costs and legal fees. If you are not sure whether a licence covers the use, ask us first — we would usually rather sort it out than process a notice.

1. Acknowledge receipt, normally within two business days.
2. Remove or disable access to the material identified, expeditiously, where the notice is substantially complete.
3. Notify whoever supplied the material — which, for MLS-sourced content, means the originating brokerage and the MLS — and pass on a copy of the notice.
4. Restore the material if we receive an effective counter-notice and the complaining party does not file a court action within the statutory period.

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you may send a counter-notice under § 512(g)(3). It must include:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material removed and the location at which it appeared before removal.
3. A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
4. Your name, postal address and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or, if outside the United States, any judicial district in which we may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who gave the original notice or their agent.

We will forward a counter-notice to the original complainant. If they do not notify us within ten business days that they have filed an action seeking a court order, we may restore the material in ten to fourteen business days.

We terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users and contributors who are repeat infringers. Where infringing material has reached us through an MLS feed, we also report the matter to the MLS, which has its own compliance process.

If we have used your work without permission, we will take it down and — where it was our error — say so plainly rather than through a lawyer.

The photography, written content, design and code on this site are ours or are used under licence. If you find Bedford Realty content republished elsewhere, particularly listing photography or the written market and property content, we would be grateful to hear about it at collier@bedfordrealty.net.