Copyright infringement claims are perhaps the single most common legal claim we find online. The vast majority of those claims involve situations where users have uploaded offending content to a site or app. If you own a website or app, you are probably wondering how to avoid DMCA complaints? Particular strategies exist that can produce …
Does The DMCA Apply To Trademarks?
The DMCA is part of a larger group of legislation that we can loosely refer to as intellectual property laws. These laws address three main topics – copyrights, trademarks, and patents. It can often be difficult to determine when a product or service falls within one or the other classifications. In this post, we seek …
What is the DMCA Safe Harbor?
The DMCA is one of the foundational laws of the Internet as we know it. This grand statement is true primarily because of the safe harbor provisions in the law. So, what is the DMCA safe harbor exactly and why does it matter?
What Is A DMCA Counter-Notification?
The DMCA is often described as a hammer for copyright holders to use against poor, innocent individuals posting content online. What is a DMCA counter-notification? A method for those poor, innocent souls to fight back against abusive copyright holders.
Does The DMCA Apply Outside Of The United States?
Most people are familiar with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act or “DMCA” in relation to the online copyright environment. But does the DMCA apply outside of the United States? We address the issue in the following video:
Does The DMCA Protect Me If I Post The Infringing Content?
Most people know the DMCA protects websites and apps from a variety of copyright infringement claims in the online arena. But does that DMCA have limitations in this regard? For example, what if you are the owner of a website and post the infringing content to it? Ah, then things get interesting as we dig …