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Doesn't that make Youtube a perfect example? It existed before the DMCA. The safe harbor provision was written specifically to protect websites like it because
by stonemetal 12y ago
Doesn't that make Youtube a perfect example? It existed before the DMCA. The safe harbor provision was written specifically to protect websites like it because the owners of such sites had an influence on how the laws were written.
- jrochkind1 12y agoI don't think so. Looks like the DMCA was passed in 1998 [1], well before YouTube was created in 2005 [2] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Ac... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube