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YouTube DMCA Ruling is Good News for Blog Sites
August 20, 2010 by publisher · Leave a Comment
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) provides a “safe harbor” from strict liability for copyright infringement to online service providers that satisfy its requirements. A June, 2010 ruling by a U.S. District Court in New York in favor of YouTube established an important precedent for blog sites for avoiding strict liability for copyright infringement by blog posters. The DMCA Online service providers such as blog sites are vulnerable to claims for copyright infringement if visitors post infringing material on their websites, even if the service providers are unaware that the material is infringing. This unfortunate result – that’s often quite surprising to blog site webmasters who are unfamiliar with copyright law – is due to the strict liability principles of the U.S. Copyright Act. Signed into law in 1998, the DMCA protects online service providers from strict liability for copyright infringement by their users if they: * post a specific DMCA notice prominently on their websites, * register with the US Copyright Office, and * promptly block access to, or take down, allegedly infringing materials if they receive a notice from a copyright owner claiming infringement, or if the service provider has “actual knowledge” that it is hosting infringing material or if the service provider is aware of facts or circumstances that should make it “readily apparent” that there is infringing activity. This protection by DMCA is known as a “safe harbor”; it completely protects the service provider from vicarious liability for copyright infringement.
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Pirate Bay judge found to be not biased
June 26, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
The four founders of Pirate Bay have been denied a retrial by courts in Sweden after the site claimed the judge in their first trial was biased. Pirate Bay’s founders were found guilty of copyright infringement in April but they claimed that the judge, Tomas Norstrom, was biased against the site as he is a member of several copyright organisations
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