Archive for September 27th, 2006
September 27th, 2006 | 
Author: The Digital Millenium Copyright Act (or DMCA), we developed to protect the intellectual property of copyright holders from copyright infringement. As a webhosting provider, we commonly deal with DMCA notices on an almost daily basis. The most common DMCA notice we’ll receive is from a product manufacturer when an online ecommerce discount website will sell products that they are not a licensed reseller of. What we hear is that the licensed resellers are complaining that online resellers do not have to abide by the same pricing restrictions or pay royalties that the licensed resellers pay. Since many of these discount ecommerce sites aren’t licensed resellers they simplly ‘find’ (borrow, copy, steal?) images online (usually from a licensed reseller’s website) and without permission and use these images on their website. Eventually, the manufacturer finds out that xyz.com is using unlicensed images and in violation of the DMCA and will send the website owner and/or host a request that the pages with copyrighted materials be removed.
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