How can anything in a comment be a copyright violation? Since when is text or words copyrighted?
If You Have a Blog and Allow Comments, Register for DMCA Protections, Sites Warn
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Re: If You Have a Blog and Allow Comments, Register for DMCA Protections, Sites Warn
#12How can anything in a comment be a copyright violation? Since when is text or words copyrighted?
Text and words were the original thing that copyright applied to, back with the printing press.
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#13Why not just write it into Federal law that a site can act as its own registered DMCA Takedown Agent, instead of having everyone go through additional red tape and pay a $105 fee to run a blog. In a way it seems like the fee to register is a freedom of speech issue. Pay an inconsequential tiny fee to run a blog, or potentially suffer huge financial losses. Kind of like the old Poll Tax from years ago. It seems like b…
My domains have my actual contact info on them including my name and address of service, I can't imagine a court wouldn't find that a sufficient substitute for the $105 listing. At least, that's the angle I would take if I found myself in that position.
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#14This extra cost will discourage sites from accepting comments, which is a scary idea. It was nice to have the internet as a relatively open medium. But those days are clearly numbered...
Re: If You Have a Blog and Allow Comments, Register for DMCA Protections, Sites Warn
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not exactly. Technically, if you serve a page which has copyrighted material you are guilty of copyright infringement. So if the copyrighted material is on your page even for a little bit(i.e., before you discover it and delete it), you may be guilty of infringement for those people that have accessed your page before you took the content down. Also it is very hard to decide what is and isn't copyrighted material on…
Comment moderation to me means that comments do not appear until approved. However I don't think this really avoids the issue: are you going to take the time to research every comment to be sure that there is no infringing content?
That is the kind of moderation I had in mind - but you are right, it could take more time than it's worth.
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#16Note: The DMCA is a specific piece of American legislation. It does not apply in the UK, or Canada, or in general anywhere outside the United States. Different regulations apply.
(I get irritated by articles like this that assume the whole of the world is governed by US law.)
Re: If You Have a Blog and Allow Comments, Register for DMCA Protections, Sites Warn
#17Note: The DMCA is a specific piece of American legislation. It does not apply in the UK, or Canada, or in general anywhere outside the United States. Different regulations apply. (I get irritated by articles like this that assume the whole of the world is governed by US law.)
I'm in Canada, but my blog-that-nobody-reads is hosted in the US, as likely will be another site going live soon. Wouldn't they be subject to the DMCA since the host is in the States? Should I be looking into a new datacenter for the new site?
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#18Note: The DMCA is a specific piece of American legislation. It does not apply in the UK, or Canada, or in general anywhere outside the United States. Different regulations apply. (I get irritated by articles like this that assume the whole of the world is governed by US law.)
I'm in Canada, but my blog-that-nobody-reads is hosted in the US, as likely will be another site going live soon. Wouldn't they be subject to the DMCA since the host is in the States? Should I be looking into a new datacenter for the new site?
Yup, if your blog is hosted in the USA, your hosting provider would be subject to DMCA takedown notices. The solution is to find hosting elsewhere -- ideally by shopping for a favourable jurisdiction.
Anyone got any good suggestions?