Eric, If you get some quotes on the legal advice, send an email to the WISPA Board requesting assistance. This obviously affects all WISPs and is something the Board should be willing to help finance.
Respectfully, Rick Harnish Executive Director WISPA 260-307-4000 cell 866-317-2851 Option 2 WISPA Office Skype: rick.harnish. [email protected] > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Eric Rogers > Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 2:55 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] DMCA Takedown > > I wanted to thank everyone for their input. I am trying to summarize > what I have found. > > I found a great informational site maintained by Stanford University. > http://www.chillingeffects.org/piracy/notice.cgi?NoticeID=973. It has > many links and FAQ for a basis to make decisions. It basically looks > that if the ISP has a policy regarding copyright infringement, and a way > to track each user, then the ISP is not playing COP, but responding to > claims/accusations and should be protected under section 512 safe harbor > laws in the DMCA. > > There are many requirements for the letter the copyright holder must > follow, up to and including they have to "swear under penalty of > perjury" that what they are sending is correct. If it isn't constructed > properly, it is nothing. > > We are drafting a policy regarding receiving the letters, and how many > times we will allow it to occur before we must protect our rights under > section 512 for the safe harbor clause of the DMCA. > > Unless there is a legal document requiring us to present customer > information, we will protect our customer's rights and privacy. > > Finally, we are seeking some legal advice to help draft those response > letters and review our policies before implementing them. > > Thanks again. > > Eric > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Justin Wilson > Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 10:46 AM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] DMCA Takedown > > Start reading here for ISPS: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_Liability_Lim > ita > tion_Act#Other_Defenses_for_OSPs > > The legal advice I have been given has always been e-mail is not a legal > document. Responding to e-mails is more of a courtesy/CYA than > anything. > Make sure you have a designated agent. All official communication is > supposed to go through this agent. > > Justin > -- > Justin Wilson <[email protected]> > Aol & Yahoo IM: j2sw > http://www.mtin.net/blog - xISP News > http://www.twitter.com/j2sw - Follow me on Twitter > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Forrest W Christian (PF Lists)" <[email protected]> > Reply-To: WISPA General List <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:55:20 -0600 > To: WISPA General List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [WISPA] DMCA Takedown > > >For those of you who are just ignoring these: I'd recommend you read > up > >on the DMCA safe harbor rules.... See > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_Liability_Li > mit > >ation_Act > > > >In short, if you follow the steps under the law, you have an > affirmative > >defense against the copyright holders suing you for contributory > >infringement. > > > >-forrest > > > > > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > >------ > >WISPA Wants You! Join today! > >http://signup.wispa.org/ > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > >------ > > > >WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > > >Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > >http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > >Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
