Copyright law [LWN.net]

Copyright law

Posted Nov 12, 2020 17:22 UTC (Thu) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
In reply to: Copyright law by Wol
Parent article: The RIAA, GitHub, and youtube-dl

True, laws differ across jurisdictions. This is about an American law (DMCA) and American companies/associations (RIAA, Google/Youtube, Microsoft/Github).

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Copyright law

Posted Nov 12, 2020 17:29 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (1 responses)

That may be true. But the OP I was replying to said copyright law was not about copying ... ??? (And I did quote him, didn't I?)

And I did say *I* couldn't copy a CD ... :-)

The "unread comments" page does rather hide context ... :-(

Cheers,
Wol

Copyright law

Posted Nov 12, 2020 21:01 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

> The "unread comments" page does rather hide context ... :-(

There is an option (which I use) to include the parent comment of any new comment thread for at least some context.

Copyright law

Posted Nov 19, 2020 0:57 UTC (Thu) by dannyobrien (subscriber, #25583) [Link]

Though note that DMCA 1201-like provisions exist in most countries now: see our blog post "the Github youtube-dl takedown isn't just a problem of American law".