Seminar by professor Jane C. Ginsburg, at UOC headquarters, 25 June 2008, about copyright liability of user generated content practices.
Copyright infringement actors
Who’s implicated?
Users, for uploading copyrighted material, make copies, remix material, etc. If there is no fair use, downloading (and storing in one’s own computer) is a copyright infringement too. Users are directly engaged in copyright infringement.
Websites, and their operators, for making available copyrighted material. Website operators are directly engaged in copyright infringement too. What happens with host service providers and access providers? Hosts too are directly implicated, as illegal copies are stored in their computers.
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from NASDAQWASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The Colombian government Tuesday asked U.S. Congress to support a free trade agreement between the two countries, arguing that economic development is the best way to curb violence in the region."This is a precious opportunity to promote peace and economic opportunity and poverty reduction in our hemisphere," Colombia's Ambassador to the U.S. Carolina Barco Isakson said during remarks at a panel discussion on trade sponsored by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.The Bush administration has negotiated free trade agreements with Peru and Colombia to replace a temporary program of trade preferences extended to the drug-producing Andean region. Ecuador and Bolivia also benefit from this program, which must be renewed periodically.Trade analysts say the U.S....