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Does Edublogs have a registered agent to deal with copyright notices under the DMCA? The directory of designated agents is available at: http://www.copyright.g
by biot 14y ago
Does Edublogs have a registered agent to deal with copyright notices under the DMCA? The directory of designated agents is available at:
http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/list/e_agents.html http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/list/e_agents.html
I don't see one for Edublogs, nor for Incsub which Edublogs is "a project of" according to the footer of their site. Unless they're listed under a different name, then they open themselves up to liability such as this story indicates. Had they been listed, Pearson would have had to deliver their DMCA notice to Edublogs' agent rather than ServerBeach's. Because they're not, ServerBeach is the one who must take action in order to be protected by the safe harbor provision and Edublogs is now the one legally responsible for any infringing content.
Short story shorter, if you publish any sort of community content you really need to spend the $105 and protect yourself by availing yourself of the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA:
http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/agent.pdf http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/agent.pdf
See also: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/dmca-righthaven-loophole/ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/dmca-righthaven-loo...
- farms 14y agoWe don't, but we will certainly get one, thanks for the pointer...
- dpe82 14y agoDo it yesterday. Send it registered mail. Until the copyright office receives it, YOU DO NOT HAVE DMCA SAFE HARBOR PROTECTION! It's not the only thing you have to do, but an important one. See Viacom v. YouTube: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viacom_International_Inc._v._YouTube,_Inc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viacom_International_Inc._v._Yo.... http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/04/second-circuit-ruling-in-viacom-v-youtube-is-a-bummer-for-google-and-the-ugc-community/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/04/second-circuit-ru...
- xb95 14y agoThis doesn't stop ServerBeach, FWIW. http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/agents/d/drmwidth.pdf http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/agents/d/drmwidth.pdf My business, Dreamwidth Studios, has a duly registered agent and has since 2008. We pay roughly $8,000/month to ServerBeach, and we've had bad experiences with ServerBeach's AUP and mishandling of DMCA notifications. In our case, they refused to send us the DMCA notification, claiming that there were privacy concerns. (Sending it to us would violate the privacy of the person submitting it... yeah, blew my mind, too.)