The odds of a take-down letter seem pretty slim for LibreOffice, but in principle, yes.
The intermediary (i.e., a mirror site) is saved harmless by specific provisions of the US Copyright Code, but one requirement is that they respond to take-down notices in an appropriate manner. Also, there are penalties for frivolous take-down notices, although I believe it is relatively easy for an intermediary to vacate a notice after a response from the source of the material. I am definitely not a lawyer, and I will not speculate further. That seems to be consistent with various actions I have seen on web sites that deal with these kinds of issues. Some sites have a link for DMCA notices, often at the bottom of the page. I see them from time to time, but don't know where I last saw one. I will check some obvious candidates: Ah yes, YouTube has a "Copyright" link at the bottom of their main page, and it links to here: <http://www.youtube.com/t/copyright_center>. They lay out all of the various procedures, including refutation of a notice, withdrawal of a notice, etc. They are in the thick of it, of course. In our case, I think the only concern is assertion that some software has been misappropriated or is being distributed in violation of someone's copyright. Flickr has a link that goes to the Yahoo! page on the subject: <http://info.yahoo.com/copyright/us/details.html>. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Florian Effenberger [mailto:flo...@documentfoundation.org] Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 14:09 To: discuss@documentfoundation.org Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] disclaimer for extension website Hi, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote on 2011-07-23 18:21: > No, I have no experience with that. > > But a mirror in the United States needs to provide a place for receipt of > take-down notifications. It probably needs to be a separate e-mail address > because there are legal obligations around the handling of such arrivals. I guess this is also true for the current mirrors, when they offer LibreOffice for download? Florian -- Florian Effenberger <flo...@documentfoundation.org> Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
