RE: [tdf-discuss] disclaimer for extension website

The odds of a take-down letter seem pretty slim for LibreOffice, but in principle, yes.

The intermediary (i.e., a mirror site) is saved harmless by specific provisions of the US Copyright 
Code, but one requirement is that they respond to take-down notices in an appropriate manner.  
Also, there are penalties for frivolous take-down notices, although I believe it is relatively easy 
for an intermediary to vacate a notice after a response from the source of the material.

I am definitely not a lawyer, and I will not speculate further.  That seems to be consistent with 
various actions I have seen on web sites that deal with these kinds of issues.

Some sites have a link for DMCA notices, often at the bottom of the page.  I see them from time to 
time, but don't know where I last saw one.  I will check some obvious candidates:

Ah yes, YouTube has a "Copyright" link at the bottom of their main page, and it links to here: 
<http://www.youtube.com/t/copyright_center>.  They lay out all of the various procedures, including 
refutation of a notice, withdrawal of a notice, etc.  They are in the thick of it, of course.  In 
our case, I think the only concern is assertion that some software has been misappropriated or is 
being distributed in violation of someone's copyright.  

Flickr has a link that goes to the Yahoo! page on the subject:
 <http://info.yahoo.com/copyright/us/details.html>.

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Florian Effenberger [mailto:floeff@documentfoundation.org] 
Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 14:09
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Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] disclaimer for extension website

Hi,

Dennis E. Hamilton wrote on 2011-07-23 18:21:
> No, I have no experience with that.
>
> But a mirror in the United States needs to provide a place for receipt of take-down 
> notifications.  It probably needs to be a separate e-mail address because there are legal 
> obligations around the handling of such arrivals.

I guess this is also true for the current mirrors, when they offer 
LibreOffice for download?

Florian

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