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Yes, but blame the DMCA, because this is literally what it requires content providers like Google to do: > OSP must accommodate and not interfere with "standar
by resolutebat 3y ago
Yes, but blame the DMCA, because this is literally what it requires content providers like Google to do:
> OSP must accommodate and not interfere with "standard technical measures." "Standard technical measures" are defined as measures that copyright owners use to identify or protect copyrighted works, that have been developed pursuant to a broad consensus of copyright owners and service providers
Basically, if somebody claiming to be a copyright owner (even if they aren't) files a claim saying they have copyright over someting (even if they don't) using "standard technical measures", Google "must accommodate and not interfere", meaning they need to take down first and ask questions later.
- prox 3y agoWhat a shitty law, how did that get passed? Or is there something I missing from all this?
- yieldcrv 3y agoUnanimously approved by Congress to implement a treaty obligation as this was the mid-late 1990s, both the law and the treaty obligation did not consider the future state of the internet, and it mostly focuses on physical but electronic mediums distinctive bills to patch the DMCA have largely failed due to general partisan paralysis in Congress for decades now, it simply needs to be a rider in must-pass bills but so far it hasnt been
- prox 3y agoI see, so it never got updated properly? Also knowing how little the average politician probably knows about this subject I don’t see it changing.
- mr_toad 3y agoCopyrights are basically a long lineage of shitty laws on top of older shitty laws all due to people lobbying to become rent seekers, most on works that they themselves never created.
- berniedurfee 3y agoFollow the money.