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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What is the legal significance of stating that one does not own or claim rights in an uploaded youtube video?
I mean often you see uploaded videos containing content presumably copyrighted by 3rd party with the uploader stating:
"I don't own any rights in this video"
What effect does stating such have? Is ...
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Proportion of copyrighted material that can be distributed without infringement
Is there a threshold or a descriptive proportion that is considered not copyright infringement but merely creative and educational use when distributing some copyright protected material along with ...
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DMCA: How can ISP ever avoid liability, ISP always gets financial benefit from user content infringement
According to DMCA, to avoid liability the ISP must not financially benefited from the infringement.
But ISP is always making money in one or many ways from infringement (ads display, subscription, ...
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Is service provider obliged by law to provide me with copy of DMCA takedown notice?
I'm running into problem with my content being removed from certain website through copyright notice.
The biggest problem is that I don't even know who posted DMCA notice or what copyright my post ...
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YouTube Counter Notification
I am a small music creator operating through a limited liability company in the United Kingdom. One of my music tracks was licensed by a major Hollywood studio, and used in the trailer campaign for a ...
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Is there any "enforceable" protection for the uploader from fake DMCA takedown requests?
I know that a request must be "under penalty of perjury". But that doesn't protect against fake information. Anyone, and especially parties outside US jurisdiction, (and even more so in countries ...
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Why don't companies supply all of the needed information about their DMCA designated agents?
I wrote "why" for lack of a better short way of saying: I'm assuming these large companies won't take a chance of being sued for this, and furthermore assume that they know the law requires it, so ...
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Does DMCA cover apps?
I'm planning on selling an app where users will be able to upload content, and other users will be able to see it. The content will not be available on a website. The content will be stored on my web ...
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Does bypassing the 10NES lockout chip violate the DMCA?
The first model of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) has a 10NES lockout chip to prevent unauthorized games from being played which many of the companies worked around. The negative result to ...
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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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Do we have to take down the material for 14 days even if the DMCA notice is erroneous?
A very large site and my site are both licensed to use product images created and photographed by the same vendor. Now the large site comes after my site and sends a DMCA notice to my hosting provider,...
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How to challenge a DMCA takedown without putting yourself at risk?
I'm an open-source contributor trying to share a repository that a company claims they own. They claim that parts of the project include information (let's call them magic numbers) that were reverse-...
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DMCA disclaimer's impact on hosted material
I've found a website that hosts a large number of data that is supposed to be publicly available. They've put this in their DMCA information page:
"The Eye (https://the-eye.eu/) respects the ...
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Am I entitled to information that the DMCA claimant is taking a legal action against me within 10 business days after receiving counter DMCA notice?
An item of mine was removed from a third-party website due to a DMCA copyright claim. I'd gone thoroughly into it and noticed serious issues with the document. Namely, contact credentials were ...
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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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