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Although I'm not one of the outraged, I think this sentence from the article talks about two very different situations: > Only when a file is shared from user-
by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Although I'm not one of the outraged, I think this sentence from the article talks about two very different situations:
> Only when a file is shared from user-to-user (or with the Internet at large) does the DMCA check system come into play.
Doing a DMCA takedown on a broadcast share with the whole internet? OK. Fine.
Doing it on a share with a specific other user? Not OK. Bad.
IANAL, but: There are limited exceptions such as fair use. For example if a teacher were sharing copyrighted work with a student or another teacher, that could be appropriate. I think it is inappropriate for Dropbox to prevent an appropriate share like this. Their ToS may allow them to do so, but I'm saying they ought not to do so. I think that's taking it too far.
- dantiberian 13y agoI think your fair use argument is reasonable. Interestingly fair use for sheet music (as one example) in an educational context is far more limited than you might think [1]. There are a number of limited exceptions for sharing copyrighted materials with a student but all of them would involve transforming the sheet music by only sharing part of it. In this scenario this would change the hash of the file and the file blacklist wouldn't pick it up. [1] http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/musguid.html http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/musguid.html