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

Thu Jun 6 18:07:21 UTC 2013

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

> 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?

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