The $105 Fix That Could Protect You From Copyright-Troll Lawsuits
Webmasters who have NOT done this yet, MUST do so.
Instructions are in the "Avoid a Lawsuit" area of this website.
Call it ingenious, call it evil or call it a little of both: Copyright troll Righthaven is exploiting a loophole in intellectual property law, suing websites that might have avoided any trace of civil liability had they spent a mere $105.See: Article in Full
That’s the fee for a blog or other website to register a DMCA takedown agent with the U.S. Copyright Office, an obscure bureaucratic prerequisite to enjoying a legal “safe harbor” from copyright lawsuits over third-party posts, such as reader comments.
There’s no better time to become acquainted with that requirement.
Webmasters who have NOT done this yet, MUST do so.
Instructions are in the "Avoid a Lawsuit" area of this website.
Why should ever single blog have to do this?
ReplyDeleteDon't webhosting companies have their agent of contact as an umbrella policy?
I know that wordpress.com has established it, so how can blogspot.com sites be sued (Shouldn't Google know this?)?
The "they shouldn't have to hunt around" argument is BULL, since Righthaven doesn't bother to do ANY contact. (all they do is WHOIS your domain registration information, if they're lucky, some sites openly state their name)
I wonder what really happened to those "domains by proxy" suits.