https://writersinthestormblog.com A Blog On Writing Sun, 02 Feb 2025 07:14:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://writersinthestormblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WITS-Logo-150x150.jpg https://writersinthestormblog.com 32 32 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/02/pirates-beware-how-to-prepare-and-use-a-dmca-takedown-notice/ https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/02/pirates-beware-how-to-prepare-and-use-a-dmca-takedown-notice/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2017 12:01:05 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=31015 Susan Spann The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) is a U.S. law that contains a number of protections for content creators, Internet Service Providers, and the public, generally designed to “maintain a balance between the rights of authors and the larger public interest” including access to information. I could write a book (and people have) describing the […]

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