Combating against Copyright Infringement & Fighting Web Site Content Theftin Ukraine
Dmytro GadomskySenior assosiate
02 December 2010 г.Presented at Legal Café within UDIVI.NET
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Content
Web content is the textual, visual or aural content that is encountered as part of the user experience on websites. It may include, among other things:
text, images, sounds,videos and animations
Combating against Copyright Infringement & Fighting Web Site Content Theftin Ukraine
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What is being copied most frequently
TextsPictures
Music
Video
Animation
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Copying = Theft?
Is it a theft?
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Preserve of Combat
vs. С
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How to preserve
Ask not to copy
Be smart
Use technical features
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How to combat
СAsk to remove
Persuasively ask to remove
Send complaint to the registrar, host service provider
File a lawsuit
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Legal action
Evidence?
Defendant?
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Legal action –who is your defendant? (1)
Whois
Request to domain administrator
Request to host service provider
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Legal action – who is your defendant? (2)
Domain ID:D29605301-LRMSDomain Name:MYHOW.INFOCreated On:07-Sep-2009 22:17:33 UTCLast Updated On:07-Sep-2009 22:17:36 UTCExpiration Date:07-Sep-2010 22:17:33 UTCSponsoring Registrar:GoDaddy.com Inc. (R171-LRMS)Status:CLIENT DELETE PROHIBITEDStatus:CLIENT RENEW PROHIBITEDStatus:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITEDStatus:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITEDStatus:TRANSFER PROHIBITEDRegistrant ID:CR13666135Registrant Name:Registration PrivateRegistrant Organization:Domains by Proxy, Inc.
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Legal action – evidence?
Authorship
Fact of infringement
Fact of infringement
Fact of infringementFact of infringement
Fact of infringement
Authorship
Authorship
AuthorshipAuthorshipAuthorship
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Legal action (Ukrainian practice)
12 mln.10 ths.
There is almost no appropriate court practice in Ukraine with respect to combating copyright infringement in the Internet
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Выводы
Not complicated
Not expensive
Not time consuming
Effective
vs. СComplicated
Expensive
Time consuming
Effective
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Who can apply for legal action?
If the amount of infringement is quite large
Possibility to asses amount of damage
Financial resources
Time
IF YOU POSSESS:
or ON PRINCIPAL
Combating against Copyright Infringement & Fighting Web Site Content Theftin Ukraine
Thank you!
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