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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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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HELP!!! Court order for a DMCA counter notice [closed]
I was reposting someone's AI pictures without permission and Twitter removed them so I filled a counter notice saying it's AI.
The next day I got this email from Twitter. What does it mean and what ...
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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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What exactly is DRM circumvention, as opposed to legitimate use?
DRM only makes media useless if it cannot be decrypted. What makes it legal for my commercially made DVD player to decrypt a disc, but not for libdvdcss to do it? DVDs don't have labels saying that ...
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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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Is creating and selling "cheats" or "hacks" for games illegal?
I sell game hacks for a living, but wanted to learn more about the laws regarding what I do.
Most of you probably haven't heard of this, but there are people like me who reverse engineer games, and ...
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Is it legal to circumvent DVD CSS to create a backup for private use in Australia?
There are two issues at play here. The first is that, in 2006, it was deemed legal to make a backup of a "cinematograph film" for private and domestic use in an amendment to the Copyright ...
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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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Is it against the DMCA to use the recent implementation of the Windows XP's product activation algorithm if one has an XP licence?
The Windows XP's product activation encryption algorithm has recently been "cracked", and a software implementation that emulates the telephone activation question / response procedure is ...
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Digidyne v. Data General: how does this not legally protect Apple macOS running on non-Apple branded hardware?
I was just reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_General_RDOS#Antitrust_lawsuit which discusses Digidyne v. Data General:
When Data General introduced the Data General Nova, a company called ...
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Penalising DMCA requests
There are stories that Twitter is closing Twitter accounts of people filing DMCA requests against other Twitter users, including what looks like perfectly legitimate requests by photographers.
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What are the legal restrictions on extracting audio from a virtual instrument plugin?
This question was inspired by https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/113826/is-there-a-way-to-decode-triton-m1-vst-pcm-samples
Suppose a user purchases a license for virtual instrument plugin to ...
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Counter DMCA Google play
Suppose that a person received a DMCA takedown notice about a month ago and has filed a couple of counter notices, but and always gets an automated response saying "We are unable to take ...
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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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Does the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act confer a right to unlock a phone one owns, or merely limit the scope of the DMCA?
Smart phones come in two different kinds: locked, and unlocked. A locked phone has been modified from its original design, in its software, hardware, or firmware, to only accept cell service from a ...
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