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Digital Millennium Copyright Act (or DMCA) To win a case under the DMCA, the name of the author, or copyright owner, or the copyright notice must have been removed from the work or altered. The DMCA refers to this as “copyright management information.”
If someone copies your work, whether a photograph, a painting, or an article, without your permission, it is copyright infringement. However, most people do not know that it is also a violation of copyright law for someone to remove a copyright notice from the work. Removing or altering a copyright notice from an image or stripping metadata from the picture file is a violation of the DMCA. A person can be liable for between $2,500 and $25,000 plus attorney’s fees for removing from a work what the DMCA calls “copyright management information” from a work
copyright management information the © symbol, or the word "Copyright" or abbreviation "Copr."; the year of first publication of the copyrighted work; and. an identification of the owner of the copyright, either by name, abbreviation, or other designation by which they are generally known.
Edited on Oct 21, 2017 at 08:23 PM · View previous versions
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