I think the essential requirement is very similar even though the implementation differs a whole lot.
The person who claims to "own" the material being copied must present proof that it is indeed being copied and not just a vague statement that " they are using what looks a lot like my work". That much is universal! Karen On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Anders Arnholm <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010-06-01 19:34, dz skrev: > > The sad fact of the matter is this... If you open your grid to the >> public, you GIVE YOURSELF the responsibility to respond to appropriate DMCA >> take down requests. Because OpenSimulator is an alpha product, there are >> not any real established "best practices" or step-by-step procedures >> > > DMCA is a very US law, and few other parts of the world have yet any > similar laws. Thats why the US press so hard in the ACTA negotiation for > having that added. The proper way in Sweden here is for the person that have > the copied item to either make a criminal case by making talking to the > nearest police station. Or a civil case, sending in a request to the court > to order the operator to give out the personal information they have on > someone. The courts have also made changed many see as against the EU > registrations to take down bandwith to the site PirateBay. The ISP have > taken this to a sigher court instance so what that wil end in is not sure > yet. > > In fact a ISP or grid operator is regulated to be not allowed to do some > parts om the US DMCA laws unless a court takes the decition. They are not > allowed to give out any information about there customers. They are not > allowed to keep eccessive logs not needed for billing and so on. > > In the end the legal ways varried greatly with WHERE you are operating. > > Would I have a grid, a user agreement written wel may give me the right to > take down users content when a creator asks me. I have no "obligations" > until he court orders me. The situations is totally different here. > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users >
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