Questions tagged [dmca]
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is a United States copyright law. It provides copyright holders with a mechanism to address copyright violations, while reducing liability for content providers (such as Stack Exchange).
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DMCA for postal services?
Does DMCA apply for postal companies from delivering copyright infringed material?
If yes there seems to be no form to file one in case I get information of someone doing so.
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Is youtube-dl takedown due to their tests which use copyrighted content?
The DMCA takedown notice posted on GitHub's youtube-dl page seems to be primarily based on the fact that youtube-dl is expressly advertised as a tool to "circumvent the technological protection ...
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Would a website that catalogs every possible sequence of letters violate copyright?
Suppose I created a website that cataloged every possible sequence of letters in order.
You would start with the letter "a", could swipe right to read "b", and further to find &...
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DMCA counter notice and court action
Suppose there are two parties A and B.
A files DMCA against B and the material is taken down. Then B files counter notice against A.
Then google sends notice to A that unless A submits notice that ...
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Is it illegal to reverse engineer a software if the EULA prohibits it for all purposes?
I have installed an Android app that lets me play with networking and HTTP headers.
One of the perks of the app is to be able to export a configuration file so other users that also have the app can ...
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Has anyone been convicted of perjury for false DMCA takedown notices?
When a copyright holder demands that infringing material be taken down, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) paragraph 3A(vi) requires:
A statement that the information in the notification is ...
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Does YouTube legally need proactive takedown?
YouTube needs to figure out what to do about people posting copyright material. The actual solution they arrived at, after some negotiation with the media companies, includes programs that scan ...
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Would company A be legally liable if a hack is developed by a third party to run company B's software on A's hardware?
So let's assume there are 2 console companies: Company A and company B.
Let's say that company A creates the gamesystem X and company B creates the playingmachine 5.
Both companies have proprietary ...
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Am I Infringing copyright by posting a bunch of (verbatim) quotes from books?
I run a self-improvement oriented community. I continuously read books, some of them quite famous, and provide a summary along with textual quotations from each of the books reviewed.
Now here's the ...
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Does DMCA applies on decompiled assets from apk
Actually this question ( Does DMCA cover apps? ) does not cover my answer. Actually I have made an android app which is published on play store. I had trained some machine learning models which I used ...
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Are there consequences for not filing a DMCA (any country)
Awhile ago, I linked someone to a fansite of people who read his indie fiction and he cursed me out because there were illegal copies to his work on it. He told me that he was legally bound to file ...
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How does the Supreme Court ruling in *Fourth Estate* not undermine the DMCA's notice-and-takedown process?
The Supreme Court recently ruled in Fourth Estate v. Wall-Street.com that copyright registration occurs (and thus an infringement action can be brought) only after the Copyright Office takes action ...
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Is it legal to distribute a modded free application on your website?
There is a free Android app called Google Camera intended for Google Pixel smartphones, and there's a huge online community of people modifying the application so it can run on more different devices. ...
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DMCA Takedown and counter notice when service provider
There's something I have trouble understanding.
My app is considered a service provider and registered with copyright.gov
Some time ago someone found some copyrighted work and filed a DMCA notice to ...
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Will a copyright holder lose the right to enforce copyright if they're not enforcing it on some stuff, or even just have problems enforcing it?
I'll give an example to make the question more clear.
Recently a person uploaded and made public a clone of Super Mario, able to run on Commodore 64. This is clearly not just a pirate copy of the old ...
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