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From: "graywolf"
Subject: Re: DMCA Takedown (was Stolen Photos)
> No your are not. Since when is law enforcement your job?
>
> What has happened is some jerkwater organization has sent around a
> threatening legal looking letter. You might as well say you can not sell
> some one a gallon of paint without him providing proof he has permission
> to redecorate.
>
> If someone is breaking the law, call the cops. Now I would like to know
> what the cops will say if you start calling them every time someone
> reprints a snapshot in your kiosk. Violating copyright is not a criminal
> offense!
That jerkwater organization would be your federal government.
The DMCA pute the onus on the lab operator to ensure there is no violations.
This is the relevant part of the act. I hope quoting it doesn't break the
law....
William Robb
"(b) Additional Violations.-(1) No person shall manufacture, import,
offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology,
product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that-
"(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of
circumventing protection afforded by a technological measure that
effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title in a work
or a portion thereof;
"(B) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other
than to circumvent protection afforded by a technological measure that
effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title in a work
or a portion thereof; or
"(C) is marketed by that person or another acting in concert with
that person with that person's knowledge for use in circumventing protection
afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a
copyright owner under this title in a work or a portion thereof.
"(2) As used in this subsection-
"(A) to 'circumvent protection afforded by a technological measure'
means avoiding, bypassing, removing, deactivating, or otherwise impairing a
technological measure; and
"(B) a technological measure 'effectively protects a right of a
copyright owner under this title' if the measure, in the ordinary course of
its operation, prevents, restricts, or otherwise limits the exercise of a
right of a copyright owner under this title.
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