As the US music industry told the country's Copyright Office in no uncertain terms last week that the safe harbours in America's Digital Millennium Copyright Act aren't fit for purpose, the company behind the WordPress blogging platform was also calling for reform of this aspect of the American copyright regime. Though for very different reasons.
As much previously reported, the so called safe harbours in copyright law have become a top gripe in the music industry in recent times. The safe harbours mean that web companies that enable others to infringe copyright cannot be held liable for that infringement providing they offer rights owners takedown tools via which infringing content can be removed.
Posted on: 07/04/2016Categories: News from CMU Online