Online Service Provider Liability Under The Digital Millennium Copyright Act

United States Law Articles in English (2008)

Ms Elizabeth McNamara - Davis Wright Tremaine

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Online Service Provider Liability Under The Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Co-written by Jeffrey H. Blum and Denise Gough

As the Internet continues to grow and more companies move into the online world, the federal government has taken steps to protect those entities that provide conduits for online information. In the area of defamation law, Section 230(c) of the Communications Decency Act immunizes online service providers from liability for defamatory information that originates with third parties.1 In the area of copyright law, the newly implemented Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") provides that online service providers "shall not be liable . . . for infringement of copyright" for doing any of five things: storing, linking, transmitting, routing, ...



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