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Is there a para-legal way of dealing with internet copyright
infringement, like thru Yahoo or Google? Is it possible to complain to
some governing body like internic or something?
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In article <3thc21hqecnnsqei2cejvguedivhrhh8ri@4ax.com>,
polyresearch <polyresearch@yahoo.com> wrote:
Is there a para-legal way of dealing with internet copyright
infringement, like thru Yahoo or Google? Is it possible to complain to
some governing body like internic or something?
You can complain to anybody you want.
Unless there's a specific law requiring them to pay attention to your
complaints, they aren't required to pay any attention to your
complaints.
Seth
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polyresearch wrote:
Is there a para-legal way of dealing with internet copyright
infringement, like thru Yahoo or Google? Is it possible to complain to
some governing body like internic or something?
I'll be as specific as you were. Your answer: probably not. If you have
a legal concern, you need to seek legal remedies not 'para legal' --
whatever that is.
-paul
ianal
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On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 18:11:06 -0500, "polyresearch"
<polyresearch@yahoo.com> wrote:
Is there a para-legal way of dealing with internet copyright
infringement, like thru Yahoo or Google? Is it possible to complain to
some governing body like internic or something?
I should add a postscript to my first message: under the Digital
Millenium Copyright Act you can give the service provider a VERY
strong motivation to cooperate with you by making it jointly liable
for copyright infringement if it does not.
The DMCA's notification requirements are described in 17 USC
512(c)(3), You can find the text easily if you search the Web for "17
USC 512". The requirements are not hard to meet, but they are rather
specific. Unless you want to make this a learning project, it's best
to have a lawyer do it, or at least teach you how.
If the service provider is uncooperative or the infringer resists,
however, you will still have to go to court to enforce your rights.
My email address is llm040903 at earthlink dot net.
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On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 18:11:06 -0500, "polyresearch"
<polyresearch@yahoo.com> wrote:
Is there a para-legal way of dealing with internet copyright
infringement, like thru Yahoo or Google? Is it possible to complain to
some governing body like internic or something?
Laws are enforced by governments. If you want to protect your rights
under copyright law, you must use (or threaten to use) the judicial
system that enforces the law.
Most service providers have terms of service that require their
subscribers to obey the applicable copyright laws (and other laws). If
you contact the service provider used by the infringing party, you may
be able to get it to throw the infringer off its system if he/she/it
does not stop. This may meet your needs, although it has several
shortcomings:
* The service provider is generally under no obligation to assist you
until you invoke the judicial system.
* The service provider will not do anything to help you get
compensation for any injury you have suffered.
* An infringer who doesn't want to stop can simply find another
service provider -- perhaps a less principled one who ignores
complaints until compelled to act (again, by a judicial system).
My email address is llm040903 at earthlink dot net.
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polyresearch wrote:
Is there a para-legal way of dealing with internet copyright
infringement, like thru Yahoo or Google?
You don't exactly say what problem you're actually having, so expect
vague answers :-)
As near as I can make out, your gripe may be that your web site is
listed on Google, Yahoo, etc.--- and you feel this is an infringement
on your copyright.
Google and Yahoo, like all major (and most minor) search engine
operators, both observe the standard "robots.txt" convention.
Basically, if you don't want your site to be indexed, you put
instructions to that effect in a file called (surprise! surprise!)
robots.txt on your web server. Or, you can put settings in the header
of each page telling search engines not to archive that particular
page. You can even tell the search engine not to follow any links from
that page.
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On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 18:11:06 -0500 polyresearch <polyresearch@yahoo.com>
whittled these words:
Is there a para-legal way of dealing with internet copyright
infringement, like thru Yahoo or Google? Is it possible to complain to
some governing body like internic or something?
Research the Digital Millennium Copyright Act e.g.
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/dmca1.htm
http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/dmcaisp.htm
The initial requirements for taking action in relationship to on-line
infringement are fairly simple.
--
Diane Blackman
http://dog-play.com/
http://dogplay.com/Shop/
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polyresearch wrote:
Is there a para-legal way of dealing with internet copyright
infringement, like thru Yahoo or Google? Is it possible to complain to
some governing body like internic or something?
Internic is not a governing body. There is no governing body for the
Internet. It just is.
--
Gerald Clough
"Nothing has any value, unless you know you can give it up."
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