What is the full form of DMCA?
DMCA Stands for “Digital Millennium Copyright Act“.The DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) adopted in 1998 establishes the conditions for the release of the provider from liability to the copyright holder and to the user of the service .
What is copyright?
Generally, copyright is the law that gives you the ownership of that things you make or create. It could be a photographs, painting, novel, poem or even a article / blog post. If you created it, then you own it. Ownership is guaranteed by the Copyright Act.
Copyright law gives the content owner several rights. includes:
- The right to reproduce a work.
- The right to perform work.
- The right to distribute copies of a work.
- The right to prepare derivative works.
- Right to public display of a work.
These are the rights that the Copyright Act grants.
No one can legally violate them. This means that no one can make copies or perform the work you write. If you don’t give your consent (okay).
However, it is important to note that copyright law covers “a form of tangible expression” and not actual concepts, methods, ideas or facts in a particular work.
This means that in order to obtain copyright protection, it is necessary to consolidate the work in a material form. These can be stories written on paper and original paintings on canvas.
In addition to the rights granted by the Copyright Act, the copyright owner may allow other people to exercise any of the rights mentioned above. Thus, the owner of the copyright can transfer his exclusive rights to others.
Usually the transfer of copyright is done by contract. It is not legally required to register a copyright transfer with the Copyright Office. However, it is recommended that you have a legal record of the transaction.
In the event that an author or artist creates a work during his work, the creator is not considered the owner of the copyright. This situation is categorized as “employment”. Ownership of copyright belongs to the employer or whoever ordered the work.
For example, if an employee creates articles for a company, then the company becomes the copyright owner and not the actual author.
DMCA ( Digital Millennium Copyright Act )
The full form of DMCA is Digital Millennium Copyright Act. As the name suggests, it was created at the turn of the last millennium. Specifically, the law was enacted in 1998. The DMCA is a US law that criminalizes the illegal use of copyrighted material.
Although it is a United State law, the DMCA has far reaching effects. Indeed, although the websites are accessible all over the world, they are subject to the legislation of the country where their servers are located.Example: YouTube servers are located in the US. Therefore, even if you are a Canadian and any content that you upload to YouTube is governed by US law, not Canadian law.
The DMCA was created to prevent piracy. In 1990s, New technologies, such as the internet and CD burners, made pirating content easier than ever. If you’re old enough to remember things like Limewire, you know how easy it was! The media industries then became concerned about the inadequacy of the laws in force to protect their sector from piracy.
Once the DMCA was enacted, it gave individuals and businesses a way to protect their content. If a content creator sees that their work is being used illegally on a website hosted on a US server, they can file a DMCA complaint.
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