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

Thu Jun 6 19:01:15 UTC 2013

On 6/6/2013 11:07 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> On Jun 5, 2013, at 22:30 , Roy <r.engehausen at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 6/5/2013 4:40 PM, Nick Khamis wrote:
>>> On 6/5/13, Sameer Khosla <skhosla at 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?

A government can say anything it wants to

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> 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.

Limited by who?

A government can pass any law that it wants to and apply it to anyone.  
It then becomes a question of how it enforces that law and that is 
limited by its ability to project power.  See

     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse_That_Roared

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