Changes between Version 7 and Version 8 of legal


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Oct 26, 2009, 3:14:22 PM (16 years ago)
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Jamie McClelland
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    1111 * In the event that we take down the content and the content is ''not'' a copyright infringement, we are protected from being sued by our members
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    13 As you can gather from these three points, the law makes it very clear to any provider of Internet services: if you get a legal take down notice from a lawyer claiming that material on your site is infringing on their copyright, you should take it down first and ask questions later. The impact of this law is devastating for activist. We've heard numerous stories of organizations that have had their web sites taken down at critical points during their campaigns based on spurious claims of copyright infringement.
     13As you can gather from these three points, the law makes it very clear to any provider of Internet services: if you get a legal take down notice from a lawyer claiming that material on your site is infringing on their copyright, you should take it down first and ask questions later. The impact of this law is devastating for activists. We've heard numerous stories of organizations that have had their web sites taken down at critical points during their campaigns based on spurious claims of copyright infringement.
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    1515Over the last several years, May First/People Link has been impacted by this law on three different occasions described below.