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ARTICLE · 12 JUNE 2020

Copyright Office DMCA Report: What You Need To Know

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On May 21, 2020 the Copyright Office published a long-awaited report on Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) (the "Report")

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On May 21, 2020 the Copyright Office published a long-awaited report on Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) (the "Report"), which provides limitations on secondary copyright liability for materials published online.  The Section 512 "safe harbor provisions" -- in an attempt to balance the needs of online service providers (OSPs) with those of creators -- allow OSPs to operate platforms without facing secondary liability for infringing content posted by third parties, provided they comply with certain requirements (including taking down infringing content promptly upon notification by a rightsholder). When it enacted the DMCA in 1998, Congress designed the safe harbor provisions to provide "strong incentives for service providers and copyright owners to cooperate to detect and deal with copyright infringements that take place in the online networked environment."  

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