The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1999 prohibits users from circumventing technological locks that protect proprietary content.
The case centered on whether YouTube qualified for a safe harbor created by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA).
In a hearing last month, Napster lost its attempt to portray itself as a "mere conduit" for information, which would have granted it protection under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.
To what degree the French ruling will apply to Google and Dailymotion's operations isn't clear: User-generated video sites in the U.S. are protected by the "safe harbor" provision of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1999.
New hope came with the passage of the Copyright Act of 1976, and certain amendments to the law in 1999, which provided limited rights to creators such as Siegel and Shuster, and their heirs, to reclaim copyrights.
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We believe that this ruling by the lower court is fundamentally flawed and contrary to the language of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the intent of Congress, and the views of the Supreme Court as expressed in its most recent decisions.
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This means that the court has decided that YouTube is protected by the safe harbor of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) against claims of copyright infringement.
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Record labels and radio companies have actively lobbied Congress on the issue of whether the Copyright Act should be amended to legally require the payment of sound recording performance royalties for the past 80 years.
One purpose of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is to protect the technology of file sharing, and companies that use it, by inventing a theoretical "safe harbor" that shelters all sorts of user-powered platforms from the consequences of illegal actions by the users.
In the UK and Canada, the mere act of creation of a work gives copyright.
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To short circuit that process a major revamp of the Copyright Act would be necessary a laughable proposition in current Washington.
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Aereo, Inc (12-2807-CV), citing the language of the Copyright Act, its legislative history and the Court's prior decisions, including the Cartoon Network LP, LLLP v.
The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act and the Fairness in Music Licensing Act of 1998 extended the US term of copyright to bring it in line with international norms.
The Court found that, like Aereo, it appears that many cloud-based businesses that allow users to store their own content in the cloud "have relied on Cablevision as an authoritative interpretation of the Transmit Clause" of the Copyright Act.
Setting aside the complicated intricacies of the Copyright Act, and what specific copyrights could and could not be reclaimed by the heirs, both court cases turn primarily on the same important issue did the heirs already reach agreements with the corporations to give up their rights to the copyrights, in exchange for higher royalties and other benefits?
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Encryption codes like the one revealed on Digg are covered by the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a notoriously murky piece of legislation.
The framers of the 1976 Copyright Act took counsel from publishers, the recording industry, broadcasters and others with a vested interest in preserving the status quo.
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They argue that the software is illegal under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which prohibits the distribution of software or devices intended to circumvent copyright protections.
The point of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was to protect content holders and prevent piracy.
One of the key issues in the case is the interpretation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Fung argued that he was shielded from liability by the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
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In her testimony last week before the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, Register Pallante noted the need to review the efficacy of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
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The case was closely followed not just because it pitted old media vs. new, but because it could determine the limits of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, the law governing copyright infringement online.
In 1997, the Siegel heirs filed notice under the Copyright Act, formally seeking to reclaim 50% of the Superman copyrights.
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Napster, however, said that this act applies to all copyright infringement suits regardless of whether or not the parties involved cite the precedent.
Ivi tried to argue it was a cable-TV network for the purposes of these retransmission rights, because an exception to the Copyright Act gives cable operators the right to retransmit if they pay fees set by the Copyright Royalty Board, an arm of the Library of Congress.
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The government will propose deleting section 52 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 - which could have some major implications.
"Through its use of AP content and refusal to pay a licensing fee, Meltwater has obtained an unfair commercial advantage in the marketplace and directly harmed the creator of expressive content protected by the Copyright Act, " Cote said.
Pinterest, itself, is well-protected from lawsuits because of its policies and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Although they may have made what now looks like a bad deal, it did not entitle them to termination under the Copyright Act because that bad deal was made with the knowledge and power of the termination right as it stood in 1992.
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