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The show notes for Episode 143 of the Copyright 2.0 Show.
Updated on Mar 10, 10
Created on Mar 10, 10
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Viacom vs. Google court fight heats up
But their chosen replacement - giving courts the right to block internet sites which are infringing copyright - has also prompted criticism.
<!-- E SF -->The government argued that the new Digital Economy Bill should include the power to amend copyright law to ensure legislation could cope with more technically advanced forms of piracy in the future.
But Google and Facebook were among the firms to express "grave concerns" about the provision, saying it could allow ministers to "increase monitoring of user data even where no illegal practice has taken place".
If copyright pirates refuse to pay, Attributor will request the major search engines to remove offending pages from search results and will ask banner services to stop serving ads to pages containing unauthorized content. The search engines and ad services are required to immediately honor such requests by the federal Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
If the above efforts fail, Attributor will ask hosting services to take down pirate sites. Because hosting services face legal liability under the DCMA if they do not comply, they will act quickly, said Pitkow.
“We are not going after past damages” from sites running unauthorized content said Pitkow. The emphasis, he said is “to engage with publishers to bring them into compliance” by getting them to agree to pay license fees to copyright holders in the future.
13 items | 5 visits
The show notes for Episode 143 of the Copyright 2.0 Show.
Updated on Mar 10, 10
Created on Mar 10, 10
Category: Others
URL: