They would rather rely on a general-purpose and, from a copyright holder's point of view, highly untrustworthy device: the personal computer.
But it's a likely violation of copyright law, which stipulates that no one, except the copyright holder, gets to produce "derivative work" or adaptations.
Because the first sale doctrine affirmatively protects owners of lawfully purchased works by limiting the ability of a copyright holder to impede their downstream actions.
This they obtain from the copyright holder, which would be Oracle.
The law allows Web sites to host infringing content if they're not purposefully profiting from it and if they remove it at the copyright holder's request.
In my view, additional enforcement efforts above this point are likely to be subject to rapidly diminishing returns, both in reducing the rate of piracy and increasing copyright holder revenues.
But under the original contract used in the case decided yesterday, the copyright holder, Las Vegas Review-Journal parent Stephens Media, signed over only the right to sue while retaining an exclusive license to the content itself.
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Facilitate the re-use, revision, remixing and redistribution of educational materials across the world through open licensing, which refers to a range of frameworks that allow different kinds of uses, while respecting the rights of any copyright holder.
Regardless of the fact that what triggered the news was one network's mistaken enablement of a series of syndicated shows, the point is that any station or copyright holder now has the power to restrict their content.
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Mr. Lavinbuk explains that a person in the U.S. who downloads a song or movie from a server in Antigua without authorization from the copyright holder is reproducing that work in violation of U.S. copyright law.
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Two years ago, before Google thrust itself into distributing high-quality media content to mobile-devices users and others, the company announced it would begin taking down unauthorized copyrighted media within 24 hours of receiving a valid notice from a copyright holder.
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Google has argued that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, an intellectual property law created in 1998, allows sites to host copyrighted content if they aren't aware of it, don't profit from it and remove it at the copyright holder's request.
In its absence, to comply with U.S. copyright law you would have to keep track, in perpetuity, of all foreign-sourced works in order to avoid inadvertently selling, lending, gifting, donating, or otherwise distributing them without permission from the copyright holder.
The Alluc.org kids, as well as the operators of most sites that let users upload content, argue that they're not violating copyright law if they're not the ones putting it up and if they take it down at the copyright holder's request.
While this activity may have occurred without your permission or knowledge by an unauthorized user, or perhaps by a minor who may not fully understand the copyright laws, as the primary account holder, you are legally responsible for all activity originating from your account.
At least two of Rick Griffin's most famous posters have been bootlegged in Europe and shipped back to the United States, much to the distress of the holder of the poster's copyright, the concert production company Bill Graham Presents.
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