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17 May 2017

Registered your DMCA contact address yet? Internet

It is not much of an exaggeration to say that the Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1998 makes the Internet as we know it possible. The DMCA created a safe harbor that protects online service providers from copyright suits so long as the follow the DMCA rules.

One of the rules is that the provider has to register with the Copyright Office, to designate an agent to whom copyright complaints can be sent. The original process was rather klunky, send in a paper form that they scan into their database, along with a check. This year there is a new online systems, and as of December they will no longer provide the old paper database. So if you are a provider (run web servers, for example) and want to take advantage of the safe harbor, you have to register or re-register.

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