Re: DMCA hearings and protests

Karsten Self cites 17 USC Sec. 512(c) -- the negative phrasing, I agree, certainly doesn't further the cause of clarity! -- and I see your point; it's rather gray. Subsection (f) is somewhat helpful, though.

On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Karsten M. Self <kmself[_at_]ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> Is a magazine, a newspaper, a television station or network,
> a billboard company, liable for copyright infringement in the
> event a client, author, or production company prints, transmits,
> or displays infringing material by way of the publisher?
> Particularly in the case of content carried without direct
> editorial control by the medium?

I believe so. Certainly the magazine, newspaper, or whatever will be sued if infringement is claimed. And certainly I, as an author, am *always* asked by my publishers (magazine and book) to warrant in writing that the work submitted is mine and is original and that I have not plagiarised. Clearly the publisher cannot establish independently that I haven't infringed anyone's copyright, and trade book publishers in particular exercise little editorial control over content.

--Dodi Schultz
  <schultz[_at_]compuserve.com> Received on Tue Jun 06 2000 - 07:31:05 GMT