Dmca protection5/5/2023 ![]() The DMCA put forth provisions, or Safe harbors (17. How would such a lofty goal be achieved? Simple. Would it be fair for our legal system to blame and hold liable Youtube for this digital piracy? The DMCA was designed because lawmakers believed it would certainly not be fair and required a legal mechanism to both hold-youtube partially responsible for the content posted on its platform while not rendering it susceptible to 24/7 copyright infringement lawsuits. ![]() Consider for the moment how many videos are uploaded on to Youtube every single hour of the day and how many of these videos are posted without permission of the original content producer? There is, of course, a mind-boggling amount of theft. The Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1998 (the “DMCA”) is a law which was passed in 1998 and was written with the express purpose of developing a legal framework to manage the competing interests of protecting copyright holders while not excessively burdening the owners of user-submitted, content-based websites like Youtube. ![]() If you operate a submission-based website where content is uploaded by third-party users without your initial vetting and approval, you should be very interested indeed in the DMCA Safe Harbors.
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