
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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