[155774] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Copyright infringement notice
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Wed Aug 22 18:32:14 2012
In-Reply-To: <88FEBC82-7AA2-4FC5-B6E6-9FFAB7EA505D@isipp.com>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:31:13 -0400
To: "Anne P. Mitchell, Esq." <amitchell@isipp.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
<amitchell@isipp.com> wrote:
>> If you're in the U.S., the process for handling these notices is
>> prescribed by law, specifically the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
>> (search: DMCA takedown notice). It details what the infringement
>
> The thing that muddies this is that, as I understand it, the notice
> was not for takedown (i.e. there is not an allegation that they
> are *hosting* infringing material) - it is a notice that one of their
> users *downloaded* copyrighted material (IP, do I have that right?)
Thanks Anne. You are, of course, correct and the information you
provided is very much on point.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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