Re: Canadian Hosting Providers - how do you handle copyright and trademark complaints

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Jun 5, 2013, at 22:30 , Roy <r.engehausen () gmail com> wrote:

> On 6/5/2013 4:40 PM, Nick Khamis wrote:
> > On 6/5/13, Sameer Khosla <skhosla () neutraldata com> wrote:
> > > My personal favorite is the number of notices that we receive as DMCA
> > > takedown notices, citing the specific laws.
> > I'm not sure US copyright laws even apply to us here in Canada?
> > What countries have no internet laws?
> >
> > N.
>
> US laws apply where ever the US says they apply.
How do you figure that?

The US power to enforce US law is limited to:

        1.      US Citizens (pretty much wherever they are, unfortunately)
        2.      Things that happen within the borders of the united states
        3.      Transactions involving entities within the borders of the united states or
                citizens of the US.

Beyond that, their power is supposed to be pretty limited.

> The question is how enforceable the US law is your country.  There is probably a Hollywood lobbyist who is insisting 
> on drone strikes on servers that offend the DMCA  :-)

One would hope that we would not be so stupid as to carry out a drone strike against Canada for DMCA. I'm pretty sure 
that the current administration would not authorize that. As to the previous administration, your guess is as good as 
mine.

Owen