DMCA

["Ralf Stephan" <ralf@ark.in-berlin.de>]

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. 
   ...


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