Increasing Demands Drive Online Piracy Protection
People who create new items online, such as courses, videos, WordPress websites, music, or books, are demanding better protection against DMCA infringements. Photographers who display examples of photographs, law firms that provide detailed information for education purposes, and traders that publish predictions, reports, or independent analysis are also vulnerable to having intellectual property stolen.
A Brief Explanation of DMCA
DMCA is an acronym for Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which was passed in 1998. It basically amounts to a copyright law for the internet. Reproduction of creative and original material without permission is illegal. Disseminating the material is also illegal. Several sections of the Act address specifics regarding films, research and white papers, music, and other categories.
Requesting an illegal link or site to be removed is the first course of action against piracy. The reason that is not effective is due to the difficulty of finding infringements. Criminals are sly, …
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