What is the DMCA?
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is a United States law that went into effect in 1998. The DMCA changed the existing Copyright Act to add limitations on the liability of online service providers for copyright infringement and describes processes for copyright holders to report suspected infringement. On this page, you will find information about copyright infringement procedures and policies that apply to the TypePad service provided by Six Apart Ltd.
The DMCA is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1998, supposedly to update copyright law for electronic commerce and electronic content providers. Unfortunately, this law is very poorly written, and is now regularly used by corporations to restrain the three primary concessions of copyright and otherwise prevent free speech activity: 1. Fair use is the right to make unauthorized copies of works for certain protected purposes – mainly for academics, reporting, or criticism. When a student quotes a book in a high school paper, she is making a fair use, and can’t be stopped by the copyright owner. 2. First sale is the right to sell purchased media over and over again, as long as you don’t make any copies. When you read a book, then sell it to a used book store to be bought and read by someone else, you’re exercising your rights under first sale. 3. Limited time – copyrights are granted for a limited time. After that time expires, the work goes into the pub
The DMCA is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1998, supposedly to update copyright law for electronic commerce and electronic content providers. Unfortunately, this law is very poorly written, and is now regularly used by corporations to restrain the three primary concessions of copyright and otherwise prevent free speech activity: 1. Fair use is the right to make unauthorized copies of works for certain protected purposes – mainly for academics, reporting, or criticism. When a student quotes a book in a high school paper, she is making a fair use, and can’t be stopped by the copyright owner. 2. First sale is the right to sell purchased media over and over again, as long as you don’t make any copies. When you read a book, then sell it to a used book store to be bought and read by someone else, you’re exercising your rights under first sale. 3. Limited time – copyrights are granted for a limited time. After that time expires, the work goes into the pub
