Pinterest, itself, is well-protected from lawsuits because of its policies and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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.
Google receives 20 million "takedown" requests, officially known as DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) notices, a month.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1999 prohibits users from circumventing technological locks that protect proprietary content.
The industry's most powerful legal weapon in the United States is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
The site has already had to remove several designs after receiving takedown notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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The case centered on whether YouTube qualified for a safe harbor created by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA).
Fung argued that he was shielded from liability by the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
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Determining whether Google will face a similar fate is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a notoriously murky law created in 1999.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act could also inhibit innovation, argue its critics.
Encryption codes like the one revealed on Digg are covered by the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a notoriously murky piece of legislation.
Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in 1998, making it illegal to access copyrighted content and break digital rights management technologies.
But unlike Real DVD, those programs break the encryption on discs and thus violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's prohibition on circumventing copyright protections.
The current enforcement approach for larger content distributors is the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act), which enables law enforcement to submit immediate takedown notices.
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The record industry body argued that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act allowed them to subpoena information about suspected pirates without first seeking a judge's blessing.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation won regulatory approval for three exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, including one that covers jailbreaking smartphones.
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Thanks in part to her conversations with legal experts about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, she concluded that her potential legal liability would be small.
The bill gives consumers new avenues to unlock their devices and media under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in ways that do not infringe on copyright.
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.
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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In October 2012, a change was made to the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that temporarily allowed owners to unlock their smartphones without the need to ask their network beforehand.
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.
The Library of Congress has the ability to grant exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which it has done in the past for smartphone users who wished to unlock their phones.
The Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) have reasonable intents, but are singularly poorly constructed, seemingly drafted because the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was not producing the intended effect.
Meanwhile, the rules are being tightened in Europe, where the European Parliament has endorsed a copyright directive that, like America's existing Digital Millennium Copyright Act, would give rights-holders more protection and consumers less choice.
After the Librarian of Congress declared that unlocking a cellphone violated copyright law under the DMCA (that's Digital Millennium Copyright Act) activists kicked into high gear in an attempt to prevent or reverse the decision.
Google has argued that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, an intellectual property law created in 1998, allows sites to host copyrighted content if they aren't aware of it, don't profit from it and remove it at the copyright holder's request.
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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The U.S. Copyright Office created an exemption last summer in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for users to jailbreak their own devices, despite Apple's objections that the ruling could open phones to dastardly hackers and even lead to "catastrophic" attacks that crash cellphone towers.
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