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Norwegian site rehosting dozens of comics (including QC)
Is it cold in here?:
Bingo. Thank you for finding it.
idontunderstand:
Mm, kinda funny, but it's bollocks that US law could not apply. Intellectual property rights are not limited to national territories.
Thinking of sending a threatening email to that Norwegian bastard though. Opinions?
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: idontunderstand on 17 Jul 2011, 10:28 ---Mm, kinda funny, but it's bollocks that US law could not apply. Intellectual property rights are not limited to national territories.
--- End quote ---
No, US law does not apply outside the US. To the extent that there are treaties between nations agreeing to it, there may be harmonisation of laws, and arrangements for deportation where appropriate, but the US does not have jurisdiction over a server in Sweden.
Even basic copyright is not uniform throughout the world - different countries have different terms, for instance (Canada 50 years, USA 70 years, Mexico 100 years).
I am not aware that the DMCA is taken to apply anywhere outside the USA, though.
dragontart:
--- Quote ---I am not aware that the DMCA is taken to apply anywhere outside the USA, though.
--- End quote ---
Not by that name, but Germany has very strict laws concerning at least artistic intellectual property which seems to be the same, basically. (This is why youtube is of the opinion that 80% (uneducated guess) of it's "content is not available in [my] country".)
pwhodges:
Oh, indeed - and the UK has similar laws. But that's emphatically not the same as claiming that US law applies outside the US!
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