Stephan Lachnit <stephanlach...@debian.org> writes: > If I compare how other mediums handle copyright violations, most > services have a "file a claim infringed copyright here" button on their > site (e.g. YouTube). For example, we could write a DMCA policy like > e.g. Github [2], hyperlink in the footer of all our official websites, > make a small "debian-dmca" tool that is always available in our builds > to file claims and provide infrastructure to process such claims.
Just as a side note, I believe the DMCA safe harbor provisions only apply to entities that allow unrelated third parties to upload material to their web sites (social media, GitHub, etc.). Debian only allows project affiliates to upload packages, so I suspect that we cannot use the DMCA safe harbor provision. (A lawyer would of course be able to answer that question more conclusively.) This is a bit murky given that Debian has only murky legal existence, but it doesn't feel like we're within the spirit of the DMCA safe harbor provision. (Also, I don't know what that looks like in non-US law, since the DMCA thing is specifically a US law.) > I highly doubt that anyone will ever directly start a lawsuit instead of > sending a cease-and-desist letter first, I'm not even sure if it is > legal to start a lawsuit without doing this first. Right, the other angle that it would be nice to have some more legal information about is what would happen if we did make a mistake. How likely is it that we wouldn't be able to remedy it without much cost if we acted promptly? This is less a question about the specific language of the law and more a practical question of how the law works in the real world, something that a lawyer would be better-qualified to weigh in on. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
