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That caption is so not true.
It’s a picture of me a few decades ago, if I’d been an Asian woman.
Female, absorbed in her reading material. Yeah, that could be a more Asian version of me. A few decades ago.
But enough of all that. Let’s talk about the Actions Authors Can Take Against Notorious Piracy Site OceanofPDF.com, since the topic seems to have created a stir of some sort.
The source is The Author’s Guild. It’s nice to know we have something that passes for a union an advocacy group.
Here’s where they tell you about takedown notices. Didn’t bother to read it. Went right for this PDF.
And it starts off like this:
Under Section 512 of the Copyright Act, to take advantage of safe harbors that protect service providers from copyright infringement actions for materials they passively host or link to, any internet service provider that hosts or links to content that infringes copyrights must take down the infringing content if it receives a takedown notice from the copyright owner or an authorized party.
Now here’s a thought. How many attorneys would be able to handle this work with relative ease for large numbers of authors?
