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YouTube and DMCA Safe Harbor Ruling

by tpw
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Description: 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.

Read more here: SiteProNews: Webmaster News & Resources Blog Archive YouTube DMCA Ruling is Good News for Blog Sites
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    a very interesting article Bill - and so is this one from the Jonathan's Plagerism Today blog - from a few days ago.

    Does Posting Your Work Online Give Others the Right to Copy? | PlagiarismToday

    Telecom companies have for a long time had similar protections - which is why they can't be sued or prosecuted for people planning crimes using the phone. ISPs wrapped themselves around that too when they first provided public access and later websites, and as indicated here, blogs and Web 2.0 sites like YouTube, as well.

    The DMCA is something we all should be as familiar with as possible. Both to issue take down notices for people who infringe our content - and also to protect ourselves when people wrongly accuse us for infringing their content. Its a popular way for large organizations to get unflattering blog posts, videos, etc taken down.

    Sites such as the Salty Droid have had to deal with that aspect of it for a long time.

    thanks,
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