
What's a "DMCA Notice"?My Dad the lawyer just told me that to protect myself as the host of a discussion forum and popular weblog, I really need to ensure that I have a DMCA Notice on my site. What's that and how should I proceed. Wow, your Dad's a lawyer? I will refrain from any bad jokes, but ... :-) Seriously, though, the DMCA is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and I've actually written about it before: What's the Digital Millennium Copyright Act? Once you've read that, you'll understand what your Dad's talking about, and y'know what? I think he's probably correct. I asked my pal Jim Kukral of ReveNews about this and he pointed me to his own DMCA Notice. Here's the most important idea here: the notice is a message to companies who are about to contact you for copyright violations because of what you or someone else on your site has said about their product, service or company. Jim asks for the following, for example:
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Never miss another useful Q&A article again! Subscribe to AskDaveTaylor with Google Reader. Hey Dave! Hope you're doing great. I actually had Google Adsense shut off my ads in 2005 for about 45 days for a DMCA claim. It was an expensive lesson... I missed the first email they sent because it had gone to a junk box. I didn't think the offending page was in any way copyrighted, but I didn't understand anything about copyright back then either. Moral of my story ended up being - if someone is paying you money, give them priority ways of getting in touch with you (i.e. whitelist their email address). Thanks for posting about DMCA. It's an important thing for anyone marketing anything online to understand something about. Hope you're enjoying a great day! Jonathan Posted by: Jonathan Kraft at April 25, 2009 12:34 AMI have a lot to say, but ...
I do have a comment, now that you mention it!
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