E-Commerce law raises liability concerns for ISPs
News The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) released its proposed implementation of Directive requirements today, but ISPs are nervous about the government's indecision over the need for notice and takedown regulations.
[August 20, 2001, 15:40]
Site taken offline after Microsoft complaint
News Takedown notices have become common under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which grants ISPs immunity from liability if they promptly remove material upon notice of alleged infringement from a copyright holder.
[March 10, 2003, 10:28]
ISPs win crucial legal protections
News Although the final regulations have removed doubt over limitations on civil and criminal liability of service providers who transmit, cache or host third-party content, they still do not outline a formal procedure for the removal of illegal...
[August 14, 2002, 10:48]
IWF chief: Why Wikipedia block went wrong
News But that is secondary to our main [activities], which have always been our hotline, and notice and takedown. Our core business is notice and takedown, but in the UK there are very few occasions now where we have to issue notices.
[February 20, 2009, 16:00]
Judge waves MP3Board suit into court
News Ira Rothken, attorney for MP3Board, said he believes this is the first time a court has allowed a claim under the DMCA and state tort law for damages related to an improper takedown notice to move forward.
[March 20, 2001, 9:55]
Hollywood homes in on student swappers
News ACNS, one such measure, is designed to takes some of the burden off universities and ISPs as they field thousands of content takedown notices from copyright holders. They have also applied for a patent on the piracy notice and prevention tool.
[April 19, 2004, 14:45]
A Year Ago: Start-up plays dangerous game with music biz
News Under the law,) they can provide a notice and takedown request with all the links that were taken from Napster's search engine. If the search engine removes the file immediately upon notice, then they are safe," he said.
[August 17, 2000, 7:00]
Start-up plays dangerous game with music biz
News Under the law,) they can provide a notice and takedown request with all the links that were taken from Napster's search engine. If the search engine removes the file immediately upon notice, then they are safe," he said.
[August 17, 1999, 13:32]
RIAA apologises for more mistaken warnings
News Under section 512 of the controversial DMCA, a representative of a copyright holder can send a "takedown" notice to a university or other Internet provider requesting that copyrighted material be removed.
[May 14, 2003, 7:33]
Students defy DMCA to post email online
News EFF attorneys say the case is the first time that someone who has received a "notice and takedown" request -- one of the many Diebold made, repeatedly invoking the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) -- has attempted such a pre-emptive strike...
[November 4, 2003, 8:40]
