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The first way an OSP can be put on notice is through the copyright holder's written notification of claimed infringement to the OSP's designated agent. This must [13] include the following: (i) A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
A copyright notice may still be used as a deterrent against infringement, or as a notice that the owner intends on holding their claim to copyright. [3] It is also a copyright violation, if not also a federal crime, to remove or modify copyright notice with intent to "induce, enable, facilitate, or conceal an infringement". [4]
However, the U.S. still provides legal advantages for registering works of U.S. origin. For example, a registration, or a refusal of registration, [2] is required before an infringement suit may be filed in a US court and registration is required for claiming statutory damages in most cases.
"Innocent" is a technical term. In particular, if the work carries a copyright notice, the infringer cannot claim innocence. [96] In case of "willful infringement" (again, "willful" is a technical term), statutory damages can be no more than $150,000 for an effective range of $750 to $150,000 per work. [94] Damages in copyright cases can be ...
You can also use the templates posted at Wikipedia:Template index/User talk namespace. If a contributor has already been clearly warned of copyright infringement but carried on, you may want to seek advice from an administrator familiar with copyright policies or report it for administrator attention at the administrators' incidents noticeboard.
The Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008 (PRO-IP Act of 2008, H.R. 4279, S. 3325, Pub. L. 110–403 (text)) [1] is a United States law that increases both civil and criminal penalties for trademark, patent and copyright infringement. The law also establishes a new executive branch office, the Office of ...
In 2003, after two years of contentious negotiations,217 the TRIPS Council adopted the Implementation of Paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health [the “Waiver Decision”], under which it instituted a temporary “waiver” allowing WTO members to grant compulsory licenses free from the obligations imposed ...
An example of such a table appears in the defendant's briefs in Walker Digital, LLC v. Google, Inc. [ 5 ] The court said that the chart showed: "As the following hypothetical [case] (articulated by Google, and not meaningfully distinguished by Walker) shows, these steps can and routinely are performed by, for example, human job headhunters."