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If a user posts illegal content on a service hosted by an entity, who is liable? [duplicate]
Suppose a user posts problematic content on a service hosted by an entity (a hobbyist or a small business). The content is stored in databases provided by the entity. This entity may be storing these ...
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Workloads on Flux Cloud, who is accountable / responsible for any kind of content hosted on the platform?
I recently stumbled across the https://runonflux.io platform which promises to host decentralized web applications by distributing the workload among many individual locations / distributed nodes.
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Does the DMCA takedown procedure apply if the original work is not online?
I am referring to this situation: document B is alleged to infringe the copyright of document A.
Document B is hosted online (as I believe is necessary for the DMCA to apply).
Document A, the original ...
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Can a search engine receive DMCA takedowns? (linking to copyrighted content) [duplicate]
I have a site similar to google.com based in canada that indexes various websites online. Some of these sites link directly or indirectly to copyrighted content. I have a "torrent" tab that ...
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Can Whatsapp sue me for using unofficial services? (location: Romania)
I'm building a desktop app where people can manage their business and one of the features is Whatsapp chat directly into the app. This is not using the Whatsapp official API (their official means of ...
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Audio exhibition rights for self-hosted video files: third-party content question
Suppose that there is a website hosted in USA, with most of its users in the USA. The website is owned by a Canadian corporation.
Suppose that the website allows users to create videos using their ...
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Is there a legal obligation for a webhost to attain the identity of a DMCA takedown's issuer?
There has been a rash of false DMCA take-downs affecting artists on Twitter, in conjunction with emails from the attacker offering to stop issuing the take-downs if given a ransom payment in bitcoin.
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Web archives and sites with DMCA
Assume the following:
A website is indexed by a web archive like the wayback machine.
The website receives a DMCA takedown and the content is removed.
Does the web archive need to remove the saved ...
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Is it legal for a website to require registration in order to submit a DMCA?
This is about one of the big file sharing websites that currently has 30+ links to my original content. I sent them an official DMCA, they replied to make a registration on their website and use their ...
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Can the user be given time to respond (DMCA) before removing content?
If I (as a website owner) receive a DMCA Takedown Notice for a user's post, am I allowed to give said user a small period of time to provide a counter-notice before I take down the post? I was hoping ...
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What must an ISP do to be protected under the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act
Under statute 512 of the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act (OCCA) in section (c)(1)(A)(iii) it stipulates that an ISP
upon obtaining such knowledge or awareness, acts
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Streaming Illegal Content Without Awareness
Dropbox and other cloud storage solutions have become popular over the last few years. Storj's decentralized network model may be the future of cloud storage.
I'm considering a similar approach to ...
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Legality of Proxy sites and DMCA
I own a semi successful proxy website. It was created initially to assist co workers in the web hosting industry for troubleshooting propagation of new websites.
Recently I have been receiving DMCA ...
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Does reviewing material added by users revoke my DMCA safe harbor?
I run a site that has pages for famous people, brands, movies, etc. Each page has a "profile picture" that is added by a user (if no user has submitted a picture yet, a default image is used).
When a ...
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Definition of "Direct Financial Benefit" in the DMCA Title 17
I run a website with pages for famous people, books, brands, movies, etc. Users can rate and discuss these things. Each page has a "profile picture", which is added by a user and then approved by a ...
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