I wrote about Wendy Seltzer and her problems with so-called “DMCA notice of takedown” in a previuos post. It is kind of irony that NFL’s lawyers have to deal with one of founders of the Chilling Effects (www.chillingeffects.org website). I will have a lot of fun watching how things are developing. I wanted to write about that a little bit more but as you already noticed, Wikipedia has good articles in this subject matter. You may find similiar regulations in article 13 of Act of 18 July 2002 at providing services in the electronic way (PDF file, Polish language, I did my own translation of the Act’s title). Dziennik Ustaw of 9 September 2002. No 144 pos. 1204. Adoption of this legal act was necessary because of the harmonization process of the Polish legal system with the European Union law. Directive 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2000 on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market. Official Journal L 178 , 17/07/2000 P. 0001 - 0016. Article 14 of the Directive provides regulations that relate to the subject matter discussed at the beggining of this post.
Meanwhile, Tzy Wen (he is a creator of iPhone’s emulation software for Pocket PC devices - if you do not remember) was also convinced about effectiveness of those regulations when Youtube removed his movie (this link contains a file in FLV format, I wrote about that in the post titled Apple do not annoy me) and they informed him about reasons of this action about three weeks after they removed the movie. You can read about that at www.tzywen.com website. There is also available some preliminary statement from Tzy Wen about our cooperation and plan to release this iPhone emulation software.