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DMCA
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- Subject: DMCA
- From: "Ralf Stephan" <ralf@ark.in-berlin.de>
- Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 11:33:19 +0200
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Weil der gerade aktuell ist.
http://www.whitmorelaw.com/Copyright/dmca-analysis.html
SERVICE PROVIDER LIABILITY
UNDER THE
DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT
By
Keith M. Kupferschmid
I. INTRODUCTION
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, passed in the dying days of the
105th Congress, dramatically alters the standards for imposing third
party copyright liability on ISPs, search engine services, portals and
other entities that qualify as "Service Providers" under the terms of
the Act. The statute, which took effect on the day it was signed into
law, imposes three threshold requirements and multiple, specific
obligations, which must be complied with for a Service Provider to
claim any one of five different liability limitations created by the
new law. Service Providers that fail to implement new procedures
therefore will be unable to benefit from the Act's safe harbor
provisions.
...
ralf
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