US Internet Law/DMCA Safe Harbor
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, signed into law on October 28, 1998, amended the copyright law to provide limitations for service provider liability relating to material online. New subsection 512(c) of the copyright law provides limitations on service provider liability with respect to information residing, at direction of a user, on a system or network that the service provider controls or operates, if the service provider has designated an agent for notification of claimed infringement by providing contact information to the Copyright Office and through the service provider’s publicly accessible website.
For purposes of section 512(c), a "service provider" is defined as a provider of online services or network access, or the operator of facilities therefor, including an entity offering the transmission, routing, or providing of connections for digital online communications, between or among points specified by a user, of material of the user's choosing, without modification to the content of the material as sent or received.
Internet Law:
Table of Contents ·
Preface ·
Introduction ·
Defamation ·
Defamation - General ·
Section 230 ·
Copyright ·
Copyright - General ·
Secondary Liability ·
Fair Use ·
DMCA ·
DMCA Safe Harbor ·
DMCA Anti-Circumvention ·
Trademark ·
Domain Names ·
Content Regulation ·
Online Anonymity ·
Communications Decency Act ·
Online Contracts ·
The Hold Harmless Clause in User Agreements ·
Clickwrap Agreements ·
UCITA ·
Privacy ·
ECPA ·
SCA ·