Legal for 3rd party file hosting service to host copyrighted materials?

[ichsie]

For example, commercial ebooks and electronic version of Amazon books?

Does the copyright owners fire complaints to those services? My assumption is that they DO but does the hosting service providers have to remove the resource? Is it against the law if they don't? They must have some kind of disclaimer, but does this really disclaim them of the possible infringement of hosting these copyrighted materials?

I know a lot of forums where members share with each other copyrighted ebooks, in this case, will the forum owner be caught in law?

 

[flamewalker]

File a DMCA takedown order... they legally will have to take it offline (if they are within US jurisdiction).

 

[ichsie]

File a DMCA takedown order... they legally will have to take it offline (if they are within US jurisdiction).

Yeah, DMCA infringement notifications.

So you are saying I'm absolved of the guilt if I'm outside US in a country such as China. As a matter of fact, I am in mainland China. But it doesn't make sense. If something's copyrighted, it should be so everywhere no matter the country because everywhere it remains the creation or production of its originator.

 

[flamewalker]

Nope, not at all... each country has its own way of handling copyright issues... you can always have a lawyer write a cease and desist...there may be other avenues to use in your country as well that I am not aware of.