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The DMCA won’t help if you’re not using it right.
Although the recent court decision in Viacom v. YouTube represents a victory for website owners who seek DMCA protection, many website owners fail to comply with the strict requirements necessary to shield themselves from liability for 3rd party copyright infringement. Without taking the specific steps outlined below, website owners and operators could still be held liable for copyright infringement by their users, even if they had no idea that the content was infringing.
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La protezione delle opere non statunitensi attraverso l’utilizzo della legge sul diritto d’autor
Non è necessario risiedere negli Stati Uniti per beneficiare dei molti vantaggi delle leggi sul diritto d’autore statunitensi. Queste leggi offrono alcune delle migliori tutele al mondo ed i titolari non statunitensi di diritti d’autore – inclusi media e società di software, scrittori, bloggers, artisti, fotografi, designers e tanti altri liberi professionisti – sono in grado di fare uso delle norme di legge di questo paese senza che sia necessario registrare le opere negli Stati Uniti.
保护非美国公民的著作藉由美国著作权法
你不必成为美国居民也能够使用美国的著作权法。美国的著作权法提供世界上最完整的著作权保护。 拥有著作权的非美国公民(包括媒体或软件公司、作家、博客、艺术家、摄影师、设计师、以及所有从事创新 的职业)能够利用美国法律上的强制方法来保护著作权。这些著作甚至不用在美国注册著作权。
Proteger a trabajo no-EE.UU. usando la Ley de Derecho de Propiedad Literaria
Usted no tiene que ser residente de los Estados Unidos para aprovecharse de muchos de los beneficios de las la leyesesdeproprietariaspropiedad literariaas de los EE.UU.. Estas leyes ofrecen algunas de las protecciones más fuertes de cualquier país y, no sean titulares no Estado Unidenses de derechos deproprietarios literarios propiedad literaria de los EE.UU.--incluyendoinclusolas compañías de mediosa y software, escritores, bloggers, artistas, fotógrafos, diseñadores y otros profesionales creativos--pueden usar los métodos de aplicaciónsancionde la ley que están disponibles aquíen el pais, incluso sin haber registradorse su trabajo en este país.
Der Schutz der Nicht-US arbeitet mit Amerikanischen Urheberrecht
Sie müssen nicht in den USA leben um die vielen Vorteile der
Kopierschutzgesetze in den USA zu geniessen. Diese Gesetze zählen zu
den stärksten der Welt, und Inhaber dieser Rechte, wie etwa Medien-
und Softwarekonzerne, Autoren, Blogger, Künstler, Fotografen, Designer
und andere kreative Profis können ihre Rechte gesetzlich durchsetzen
ohne ihre Werke in den USA zu registrieren.
Protecting non-U.S. Works Using U.S. Copyright Law
You don’t have to be a resident of the United States to take advantage of the many benefits of U.S. copyright laws. These laws offer some of the strongest protections of any country and non-U.S. copyright holders—including media and software companies, writers, bloggers, artists, photographers, designers, and any other creative professionals—can use legal enforcement methods available here even without registering your work in this country.
First Steps: Using Copyright to protect your work
According to copyright law, you are a creative artist.
For some of you, this isn’t news—you may already think of yourself as an artist of some sort, maybe a copywriter, a photographer, or a graphic designer. Some of you even make a living from your work. But copyright law doesn’t care; it treats the crayon scribblings of my 2-year old exactly the same as the latest David Hockney painting. If you write a blog, sketch on a napkin, take a vacation snapshot, or author some Javascript code then you’re covered under the law.
Of course, nobody’s going to confuse my son’s drawings with a Hockney (he’s more of a Pollack), but copyright law leaves it to the marketplace to determine the relative value of creative works. The law itself grants equal protection to all creations, from a short video captured on a cell phone to the latest Steven Speilberg film, or from a simple blog post to the next J.K. Rowling novel.
If you already think of yourself as an artist, you may have a rough concept about what rights you get under copyright law (although you probably haven’t looked much at specifics). But even if you don’t directly profit from your work, you should still learn what rights you are afforded under the law.