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The Research On Defective Notice Of The Take And Down Notice Procedures In Copyright Law

Posted on:2018-03-23Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y CuiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2416330536475041Subject:Civil and commercial law
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The Notice and Takedown procedure is stipulated in Digital Millennium Copyright Act(here in after referred as DMCA),which is a very important rule in copyright infringement in the Internet and introduced by a lot of countries.This rule is also stipulated in the Regulations on protection of the Right of Communication through Information Network and Article 36 of the Tort Law.This rule creates a simple and easy-to-use procedure,which is different from traditional way of protection the copyrighter when the copyrighter discovered violation of his/her work in the network environment,they can promptly notify the internet service providers(here in after referred as ISPs)to remove related content to protect his/her rights.Once the ISPs timely remove the infringing content,while other conditions are also satisfied,they may be exempt from indirect tort liability.The effective implementation of the rule depends on whether the notice is satisfied the requirement stipulated in the laws,resulting in the removal effect.But in reality,the copyrighters often transmit the defective notice to the ISPs due to the lack of cognitive ability or some improper reason.The first chapter of this article is mainly about the summary of notice and takedown procedure and defective notice,which is based on the legislative purpose and the status quo of legislation,leading to the lack of regulations about defective notice in our laws.Notice and takedown procedure is not only the effective rule for balancing the interests of between copyrighters and ISPs and Internet users,and it actually involves interests of copyrighters,ISPs and Internet user.The provisions of laws shall comply with the legislative purpose and take all parties' interests into account.The second chapter of this article mainly discusses the effects of different types of defective notice and necessity of legislation.This article divides defective notice into formal defective notice and virtual defective notice.The former refers to the notification Which does not meet the requirement of provisions of the law.The type of this notice shall not be defined as invalid notice,and shall be distinguished between different types of notice to define,that is,if the notice meets the actual requirement of the law,such as the infringing content could be located via the notice by ISP's searching simply,even if the notice does not specify the specific infringement address,the notice shall not be defined as invalid notification,which also suggests the legislative purpose that prompts ISPs cooperate with copyrighters.The actual defective notice means that the form of notification is satisfied the requirement of the legal requirements,but the notice was transmitted by the copyrighters based on unfair reasons such as restricting competition.If the notice is removed,it will inevitably damage the interests of network users.Although there has exist some provisions to regulate this behavior,the provisions are general and inadequacy.Even though similar cases do not appear in current judicial practice,it is necessary to regulate the actual defective notice.The third chapter of this article mainly discuss the way to regulate defective notification and reasons.Improve the regulation of defective notice through the combination of foreign related cases and legislation.As for the formal defective notice,although there exist cases which define the effectiveness of the notification flexibility,there is no provision about this in current laws.So it is good for defining the effectiveness of the formal defective notice through introduction of flexible provisions.And for the actual defective notice,it is reasonable that the copyrighters who are intended to send the defect notice shall compensate the losses and to prove that there is no intention to send this notice,which can take network users interests into account,at same time,the copyrighters shall consider whether there exists fair use when they send the notice.
Keywords/Search Tags:Take Down and Notice, Formal defective notice, Actual Defective Notice, Fair Use
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