Under the DMCA, Viacom is going after YouTube in a New York federal court.
Or the Ninth Circuit will turn UCLA into a poster child for DMCA reform.
Google receives 20 million "takedown" requests, officially known as DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) notices, a month.
Under the DMCA, the Copyright Office can add restrictions or remove exemptions under Section 1201 every three years.
But by the time he gets a DMCA e-mail in his inbox, the offending link is already gone.
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You can claim ownership over nude selfies and file a DMCA complaint if someone tweets out your pic.
In my prior post, I identified some other ways that the DMCA online safe harbors violated best-practice design principles.
First, we believe that Congress should act quickly to ensure that this exemption to the DMCA can be codified permanently.
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As opposed to DMCA, where the focus is on violating content, SOPA and PIPA focus on links to violating sites.
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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Along the way, the DMCA, which in 1998 was supposed to bring copyright issues up to date, will most likely be revisited.
He argues that those iPad jailbreakers also need legal protection from the DMCA, whose anti-tampering provision theoretically criminalizes both jailbreaking tablets and unlocking phones.
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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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Everybody's favorite far-reaching, possibly free speech-infringing law, the DMCA, is being put to use again for busting down on Divineo, a seller of mod-chips.
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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.
Like Google, exfm is a registered DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act 1998) safe harbor and will comply to any take-down orders for infringing links from copyright holders.
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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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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 theory the DMCA could now be used by any record label or Hollywood studio to more easily identify people who it suspects of swapping pirated files on peer-to-peer services.
So the DMCA now forces Internet radio innovators like Pandora to pay higher royalty rates for songs played over the Web compared to the rates paid by cable and satellite broadcasters.
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There's no official response from Divineo yet, but since they're a France-based company, it seems like the best Sony can do with the DMCA is get them out of the states.
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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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Now the petition to the White House, which asks that DMCA protection of phone unlockers be reconsidered, has finally received an official response, and it appears that it's for the positive.
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.
Recently, over 110, 000 individuals petitioned the White House asking for an exemption to the DMCA to unlock mobile devices so that consumers can move the phones they own to new wireless networks.
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YouTube trends may have changed over the last few years, but the company's legal standing hasn't: according to a federal judge, the DMCA still protects the streaming site from Viacom's copyright claims.
According to the DMCA, a Web site can offer copyrighted content if the site's administrators aren't aware of it, don't profit from it--and take the content down when requested by the owner.
Until October, when the relevant section of DMCA goes into effect, the use of an encryption circumvention device such as DeCSS is not illegal, only distribution or trafficking in such devices, she said.
Over the first few months of the 113th Congress, we have seen a growing frustration among American consumers with the way that the DMCA constrains them from using their electronic devices in lawful, non-infringing ways.
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