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DMCA itself is obviously an US law, but many Western countries have similar laws.



As someone outside of the US, luckily it seems most US companies think that US law applies globally.

I've got quite a few DMCA notices from rights holders, but never anything actually relevant to the country of my citizenship, where I live, or where the server is based.

So, naturally, I can just ignore them.


Point me at them, please.


Eg every EU country has laws broadly equivalent to the DMCA as a result of EU Directive 2001/29/EC [1]

The DMCA itself is just the US's implementation of the 1996 WIPO Copyright Treaty. 96 other countries have ratified it [2]

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A...

[2] https://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ShowResults.jsp?lang=en&tre...


Well, since youtube-dl was the news, they have cited a German decision on the takedown request, which solely references German law. I don't know German enough to find this specific law, but I do know that by default copyright associations have a presumption to copyrights over certain media (like GEMA's case in music, which is used on YouTube around 2010, and Google was found guilty of that and therefore Google pays royalties to GEMA).




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