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YouTube would not exist today without the safe-harbor provisions of the DMCA. It would have been sued out of existence years ago. The DMCA did not create copyr
by nknight 15y ago
YouTube would not exist today without the safe-harbor provisions of the DMCA. It would have been sued out of existence years ago.
The DMCA did not create copyright law, it modified it, and pre-DMCA, YouTube would have had no protections.
- 1010100101 15y agoAnd without a fair use exception to copyright, search engines like Google could not show matching web site excerpts in their results. Imagine search engine results that consisted only of URL's.