of the site. This rule is a general rule which applies to a wide range of ISP activity. The EU has provided for a similar rule through its E-commerce Directive.
Copyright issues
Easyinternet case
Easyinternet cafe company had to pay £80,000 to the British Phonographic Industry in an out-of-court settlement over music copyright.
Napster case
Peer 2 Peer file swapping service. Breaches copyright since you can borrow someone else’s music and make a copy.
Copyright Directive
Article 5(1) - the transient copies are an integral and essential part of a technological process whose sole purpose is to enable a transmission in a network between third parties by an intermediary or a lawful use of a work or other subject-matter to be made; and they have no independent economic significance.
Caching
Copying can be committed merely by downloading a webpage. In order to download a web page you must copy it. Further, a server may save or ‘cache’ this for speed if called upon again. Article 5 of Directive 2001/29/EC on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society provides that: “Temporary acts of reproduction referred to in Article 2, which are transient or incidental [and] an integral and essential part of a technological process and whose sole purpose is to enable:
(a) a transmission in a network between third parties by an intermediary, or
(b) a lawful use
英语论文网 【http://www.51lunwen.org】of a work or other subject-matter to be made, and which have no independent economic significance, shall be exempted from the reproduction right provided for in Article 2.
Article 2 provides for an exclusive reproductive right for authors and producers of copyright work. Article 5 is thus the exception to this rule.
The United Kingdom Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 [No. 2498] give effect to the directive in the UK.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act 1998
When an ISP is notified in writing that copyright infringing material is available through its service, it must act expediently to remove or disable access to the offending material. Notice and Takedown procedure. Note that there is no such deadline in the EU legislation.
4 safe harbours
Mere conduit
Caching
User storage
Information location tools
Information Location Tools and Hypertext issues
Search engines and Directories
Search engines are computer programs that are used to scour the World Wide Web for relevant internet pages. Examples include, Google, Yahoo, MSN, askjeeves. A search engine displays and ranks websites according to their relevance to the subject matter. In order to increase a website’s search engine ranking, web developers may insert metatags into the source code of the website. Metatags are readable codes in the underlying program that assist the computer to identify the website. Such tags may contain
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