DMCA & Copyright Policy
Last updated: August 2026.
What we own, and what you may quote
Everything original here is our copyright: the articles, the recall and bulletin write-ups, the guides, the photographs we take in workshops and at the end of farm tracks, the measurements we make and the payload calculations we work through. Copyright exists whether or not a notice sits at the foot of a page.
Quoting is welcome. Take a paragraph, name us, and link to the piece so the next person can check whether we were right. Our terms of service set out that reading licence in full, with the rules on scraping and machine learning. What is not welcome is a whole article turning up elsewhere with our name off it, or with our name on it and the build range removed, which is worse. A scraped recall copy without the build range sends an owner off to check a VIN against a campaign that never applied to them. We did that to our own readers once, and the entry is still in the log described in our corrections policy.
Asking to reprint or licence something
Write to support@isuzuownersclub.com with the piece you want, where it would appear, for how long, and whether the use is commercial. Put the word reprint at the front of the subject line.
Requests from workshops, owners groups and clubs are usually granted at no cost, with attribution, a link back, and the condition that nothing is edited in a way that changes a technical claim. Commercial republication is negotiated and sometimes refused. Syndication with no link is refused as a rule, because the link is the only thing keeping a copy attached to the corrections that follow it.
Marks, other people’s material, and the fact that we are not Isuzu
Copyright is not the only right people write to us about. Isuzu Owners Club is an independent, unofficial publication, not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or connected to Isuzu Motors Limited, its subsidiaries, its dealers or its distributors. “Isuzu”, “D-Max”, “MU-X” and the series names are trademarks of their respective owners, used here only to identify which vehicle a piece is about, as any independent publication covering them must, and we claim ownership of none of them. Our purpose is educational and community-based: helping owners maintain these vehicles and find each other. So nothing here is official manufacturer guidance, warranty and recall registration belong with Isuzu or an authorised dealer, and the manufacturer’s documentation outranks anything we publish.
Third-party material here is used under licence, with permission, or as fair quotation with attribution. Where a rights holder thinks we have that wrong, a short email often settles it faster than the formal route below.
Sending us a takedown notice
If you own copyright in material published here without your permission, you can send a notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. A valid notice has to contain all of the following, and one missing an element cannot be acted on. The statute sets the list.
- Identification of the copyrighted work said to be infringed, or a representative list if several works are involved.
- Identification of the infringing material, specific enough for us to find it: the address of the page and where on it the material appears.
- Your name, postal address, telephone number and email address, so we can reply and, where a reader posted the material, pass them on as the law requires.
- A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
- A statement that the information is accurate and that, under penalty of perjury, you are the copyright owner or are authorised to act for the owner.
- Your physical or electronic signature.
Send it to support@isuzuownersclub.com with DMCA at the front of the subject line. The role of designated copyright agent is held by our managing editor, who reads these notices personally. We name roles rather than individuals, because the rules outlive whoever holds the job.
What happens once a notice arrives
Receipt is acknowledged within two working days. Where the notice concerns material a reader posted, we act quickly: it comes down while we look at it, and the person who posted it is told and sent a copy of the notice.
A notice about our own reporting is read carefully rather than reflexively. Quotation and comment are lawful, and takedown notices are sometimes used to remove reporting somebody dislikes rather than to protect a copyright. Where the claim is right, the material is removed or replaced and the page says something was removed and why. Where it is a complaint about coverage wearing a copyright coat, we say no and explain the reasoning.
Counter-notification
If your material was removed and you think that was wrong, send a counter-notice. It needs your name, address, telephone number and signature, identification of the material and where it sat before removal, a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief it was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification, and your consent to the jurisdiction of the appropriate court and to service from the person who complained.
A valid counter-notice is forwarded to the original complainant. If they do not tell us inside ten to fourteen business days that they have filed an action to restrain the activity, the material goes back up. Those timings come from the statute, not from us.
Repeat infringers, and notices sent in bad faith
Anyone who repeatedly posts infringing material in comments or submissions loses the ability to post, and we keep a record of notices. Contributors are a separate matter, since plagiarism ends a working relationship here outright, which is written into our editorial standards.
One warning on the other side of this. Section 512(f) makes a person who knowingly misrepresents that material is infringing liable for damages and costs, including our legal fees and those of whoever had material removed. We have been sent notices that were really requests to unpublish something inconvenient. We answered them and the articles are still up.
