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alt="" width="154" height="92">Administrators at
many of the libraries served by OPLIN have
received emails from OPLIN Support passing along
complaints about copyright infringement, often
tracing back to a public computer in a library
being used to download a copyright-protected
movie. Automated measures to stop such
infringement have hit the news lately, as
"copyright bots" blocked portions of the Hugo
Awards and the Democratic National Convention
broadcasts. For the past year, there also has been
a system in place, called the Copyright Alert
System, that tries to stop copyright infringement
by sending notices of illegal downloads to
participating Internet service providers (ISPs),
in the hope that the ISP will take action against
their infringing customer. And it's possible that
a <a href="http://www.oplin.org/4cast/?p=2865">Trans-Pacific
Partnership</a> (TPP) trade agreement may
someday create meaningful legal incentives for
ISPs to police the Internet. Meanwhile, what
should a library know about the law if it receives
a copyright infringement notice? These sites might
help.
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388538,00.asp">ISP
copyright alerts: Your questions answered</a>
(PCMag/Chloe Albanesius) "Most ISPs already
issue copyright infringement notices to
customers if they receive complaints from
copyright holders. This Copyright Alert System
is just an effort to get everyone on the same
page in terms of how to notify customers and how
to penalize repeat offenders. Under the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), ISPs are
required to respond to copyright notices if they
want to be protected by the law's safe harbor
clause. In other words, if someone is using
Comcast's network to download illegal files,
Comcast won't get in trouble provided it
responds to complaints and deals with the
customer in question."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20077659-261/should-you-fear-new-isp-copyright-enforcers/">Should
you fear new ISP copyright enforcers?</a>
(CNET/Greg Sandoval) "Those ISPs that have
partnered with the music and film sectors have
the option of issuing six warnings to a
subscriber before moving to the 'mitigation'
stage. Way down in the press release announcing
the agreement is the bit about how the ISPs will
hobble the connection speeds of those accused of
multiple offenses or completely cut off their
Web connection until they stop infringing
intellectual property."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.newmediarights.org/business_models/artist/what_legal_consequences_can_there_be_illegally_downloading_movies_or_music">What
legal consequences can there be for illegally
downloading movies or music?</a> (New Media
Rights/Shaun Spalding) "It is against the law
for the person who posted the video to have
posted it. However, it's not against the law for
you to watch/stream an infringing video that has
been posted. If it was, millions of people would
be breaking the law just by watching videos on
YouTube each day. Even though it's not against
the law to watch them, as soon as you do
anything to reproduce or redistribute the
illegal video yourself, then you actually are
committing infringement. For example, if you try
to download the video from the streaming site
onto your hard drive, you have then
independently broken the law and can be held
responsible for that download."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CDkQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lexology.com%2Flibrary%2Fdetail.aspx%3Fg%3D1fdebf2e-754b-4018-a356-d81a1cf000de&ei=R0ZOULu1NaTz0gHfr4HoAg&usg=AFQjCNFNYmwPDMBmO_4-oqUkpg8CvR4E6g">Stored
Communications Act and internet service
providers</a> (Lexology/Winston & Strawn
LLP) "Magistrate Judge Brown found that while
the plaintiffs could make a prima facie claim,
they could not demonstrate that there was a
reasonable likelihood that the requested
discovery would lead to identifying information
of the individuals who had downloaded the
copyrighted material without authorization. He
noted the widespread use of wireless routers and
that multiple computers and multiple users can
access the Internet from a single wireless
router. Thus, while an IP address may lead to a
particular wireless router, it does not
establish a reasonable likelihood that it would
lead to an individual who can be sued for
copyright infringement."</li>
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<div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">OPLIN is
not a participant in the Copyright Alert System.
Nevertheless, we have received over 500 complaints
since the beginning of 2012, which we forward on
to libraries for their information.
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