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Sports activities leagues are urging the US to require “instantaneous” takedowns of pirated livestreams and new necessities for Web service suppliers to dam pirate web sites.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 requires web sites to “expeditiously” take away infringing materials upon being notified of its existence. However pirated livestreams of sports activities occasions usually aren’t taken down whereas the occasions are ongoing, mentioned feedback submitted final week by Final Preventing Championship, the Nationwide Basketball Affiliation, and Nationwide Soccer League.
The “DMCA doesn’t outline ‘expeditiously,’ and OSPs [online service providers] have exploited this ambiguity within the statutory language to delay eradicating content material in response to takedown requests,” the leagues instructed the US Patent and Trademark Workplace in response to a request for feedback on addressing counterfeiting and piracy.
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