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Post by LaFille on Apr 11, 2008 22:25:14 GMT
P.S If you go to the chat room, you'll see two heads were talking to each other... Bleh, I saw this just now, sorry; told you I was late yesterday night, eh? A few interesting snippets I'm finding: From here*** And finally I found what else I was looking for! The stuff that YouTube is definitely hosting legally. They don't make it easy, mind! Obviously links to legal use of copyrighted stuff is perfectly allowable. Interesting links... For the Wesnot community, as much as it might have angered them, that was an opportunity to make two of their causes advance at once: content being wrongfully claimed as copyrighted by a big company and spreading knowledge about their game; spreading this story (because it's the kind of crunchy story that a lot of people would surely find interesting) could make a whole lot of people discover the game that way. Good for them. Yay for the rules being fixed... Hopefully for a while!
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Post by hector on Apr 11, 2008 23:39:05 GMT
A few interesting snippets I'm finding: I posted the exact same thing 4 pages ago: there is a provision under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act which grants "safe harbor" to internet service providers against lawsuits
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Post by Elliot Kane on Apr 12, 2008 6:12:23 GMT
Yeah you did, Hec. I think I didn't understand it, then. I am really NOT good at all this legal stuff, as you can doubtless tell.
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Post by hector on Apr 12, 2008 7:34:27 GMT
It's actually incomplete info in the link you posted. In order to be granted Safe Harbor you need to do three things:
1) Prohibit the posting of copyrighted material.
2) Designate an agent to receive takedown notices in the United States Copyright Office by filling a form and paying about 100 dlls.
3) Taking down the material upon takedown notice.
Then, and only then, you're granted Safe Harbor under the DMCA.
I didn't mentioned 2 because, well, this isn't really about protecting the forum agains copyright infringement claims. You can post entire copyrighted movies and the odds of you getting into trouble are still pretty much zero. It was more about some peace of mind.
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Post by Elliot Kane on Apr 12, 2008 8:02:15 GMT
There seems to be a war going on between a lot of companies who are frankly vindictive bastards who are far more interested in going after the easy targets than the hard ones and the 'all information should be free' crowd. That war just seems to get worse all the time.
I want us out of it. It's as simple as that.
I don't have any real sympathy for either side.
So yeah, I guess 'peace of mind' is good.
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Post by rockergrl on Apr 19, 2008 14:42:05 GMT
Jay Leno On Government Corruption
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