Posts Tagged ‘Yahoo’

The DMCA on 7 Advertising Networks

By Jonathan Bailey • Sep 27th, 2007 • Category: Articles, DMCA, DMCA Seven, Legal Issues, Personal Experiences

Advertising networks are very important allies in the fight against plagiarism and content theft. As one of the most popular revenue streams for scrapers and other spammers, they often unwittingly bankroll many of the content thieves who plague the Internet.
However, advertising networks are not covered by the DMCA. Since they are not hosts and are [...]



The DMCA on 7 Domain Hosts

By Jonathan Bailey • Sep 13th, 2007 • Category: Articles, DMCA, DMCA Seven, Legal Issues, Personal Experiences

For the next chapter of the “DMCA Seven” series, we take a look at a different kind of hosts, domain hosts.
These differ from most of the other hosts we’ve covered in that they are not free services, but rather, paid hosts that earn monthly or yearly fees from their subscribers.
Despite the apparent conflict of interest, [...]



Photographer Gets Plagiarized then Censored

By Jonathan Bailey • May 16th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues, News

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Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir is heralded as one of the top photographers on the photo-sharing site Flickr. Guðleifsdóttir, a native of Iceland, is well known for her self-portraits as well as her surreal landscapes.
However, she recently discovered that a photo printing site had not only posted several of her works under a false name [...]