DMCA Safe Harbors

Scope

 * Use this page to list sources related to the DMCA notice-and-takedown process of section 512. Sources related to anti-circumvention issues under section 1201 should go instead in Digital Rights Management and Anti-circumvention.

News / Editorial

 * Sam Gustin, MP3Tunes safe harbor challenge a legal test for cloud storage, Ars Technica (Nov. 21, 2010)
 * Mike Masnick, Court Recognizes That DMCA Process Goes Against Basic Copyright Concepts, (Nov. 15, 2010)
 * Aneesh Mehta, The DMCA Safe Harbor Provision Is Stronger Than Ever, LTN Law Technology News (July 08, 2010)
 * Kim Zetter, Yahoo Issues Takedown Notice for Spying Price List, Wired Threat Level (Dec. 4, 2009)
 * Perfect 10 Seeks Severe Sanctions against Google for Discovery Abuse, Business Wire (Dec. 2, 2009)
 * Emil Protalinski, Microsoft issues takedown notices over spilled COFEE, Ars Technica (Nov. 25, 2009).
 * John Timmer, Bill could kill ISP safe harbor in cases of financial fraud, Ars Technica (Nov. 5, 2009).
 * Nate Anderson, EFF opens the "Takedown Hall of Shame", Ars Technica (Oct. 27, 2009).
 * Leander Kahney, Microsoft Sends CultofMac a DMCA Takedown — For Linking To Windows 7 Beta?, CultOfMac.com (Oct. 21, 2009).
 * Stephen Shankland, EFF: TI calculator hackers didn't violate DMCA, CNETNews (Oct. 13, 2009)
 * John Timmer, EFF challenges Texas Instruments over calculator mods, Ars Technica (Oct. 13, 2009).
 * Nate Anderson, Australian ISP in court for not disconnecting users, Ars Technica (Oct. 7, 2009).
 * Greg Sandoval, Did Viacom find smoking gun in YouTube case?, CNET News (Oct. 6, 2009).
 * Andrew Mager, DMCA takedown forces Google to remove links to Pirate Bay, CNET News (Oct. 2, 2009).
 * Ole Reißmann, Pirates Plunder Germany's Big-Party Voters, Spiegel Online (Sep. 28, 2009).
 * Greg Sandoval, Scribd fires back, denies violating copyright, CNET News (Sep. 20, 2009).
 * Eric Bangeman, Judge: Safe Harbor applies to Veoh; UMG lawsuit eviscerated, Ars Technica (Sep. 14, 2009).
 * Greg Sandoval, Veoh wins copyright case; YouTube wins, too?, CNET News (Sep. 14, 2009).
 * David Kravets, Once Again, DMCA Protects Online Video Sites, Wired Threat Level (Sep. 14, 2009).
 * Sarah Perez, After 'Obama as Joker' Copyright Debacle, Flickr Changes Its Takedown Policy, ReadWriteWeb (Sep. 3, 2009).
 * Nate Anderson, $32M Louis Vuitton judgment shows limits of ISP safe harbors, Ars Technica (Sep. 2, 2009).
 * Eriq Gardner, High-Tech Tug of War, IP Law & Business (Jun. 1, 2009).
 * Julian Sanchez, Google's DMCA takedowns leaving Blogger users high and dry, Ars Technica (Mar. 8, 2009).

Legal Briefs / Opinions / Statutes

 * Viacom Int'l Inc. v. Youtube, Inc., No. 07 Civ. 2103 (S.D.N.Y. June 23, 2010).
 * Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. v. Fung, No 06-05578 (C.D. Cal. Dec. 21, 2009) (operator of torrent sites was not eligible for safe harbor).
 * Project DOD, Inc. v. Federici, 2009 WL 4910320 (D. Me. Dec. 13, 2009) (Service provider's 512(f) action dismissed on jurisdictional grounds).
 * Blues Destiny Records LLC v. Google, Inc., No. 09-00538 (N.D. Fla. Dec. 7, 2009) (complaint).
 * UMG Recordings, Inc. v. Veoh Networks, Inc., No. 07-05744 (C.D. Cal. Sep. 11, 2009) (holding Veoh eligible for 512(c) safe harbor, clarifying many requirements for eligibility).
 * IO Group v Veoh Networks, No. 5:2006cv03926 (N.D. Cal Aug 27, 2008) (Reformatting content does not remove safe harbor)
 * Twelve Inches Around Corp. v. Cisco Sys., Inc., 2009 WL 928077 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 12, 2009).
 * Online Policy Group v. Diebold, Inc., 337 F Supp. 2d 1195 (N.D. Cal. 2004). (ISP safe harbor does not require processing notice-and-takedowns)
 * Recording Industry Ass'n of Am., Inc. v. Verizon Internet Servs., Inc., 351 F.3d 1229 (D.C. Cir. 2003).
 * ALS Scan, Inc. v. RemarQ Communities, Inc., 239 F.3d 619 (4th Cir. 2001).
 * Hendrickson v. eBay, Inc., 165 F. Supp. 2d 1082 (C.D. Cal. 2001).

Scholarship

 * Gillespie, Tarleton L. Copyright and Commerce: The DMCA, Trusted Systems, and the Stabilization of Distribution., The Information Society, Vol. 20, No.4, pp.239-54 (Sep. 2004).