> Because all DMCA notifications must be based on a work for which the copyright is registered with the Copyright Office (or for which registration has been applied for), and because a high percentage of DMCA takedown notices are not valid, it will speed our investigation of your DMCA notice if you attach to it a copy of your copyright registration, or registration application, for the work.
> DMCA notifications based on unregistered works are not valid.
Heh, would only be cheekier if their DMCA <form> had file upload inputs for copyright_docs and registration_docs.
Outline seems exclusively used as a paywall bypass system in the wild. Can't be good for their longterm viability.
Is that true, since USA signed up to the Berne Convention (18XX) copyright in USA has been an unregistered right (as was already common across the World).
If DMCA only applies to registered works that's interesting to me -- seems it is, eg https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=7f07e1c0-5264..., in fact it appears as in other areas of USA law you have to buy your right (from the government in form of a registration in this case) which seems contrary to Berne, I'm suprised it doesn't put USA in breech of their duties as it effectively reverses the "automatic" aspect of copyright for ordinary citizens.
It's surely just in its bootstrapped growth stage.
If it wasn't for its annotation system, I'd put it in the realm of rather straightforward side projects. There are really good "readability mode" transformer libraries out there. And you can imagine buying a subscription to each of the major publications to bypass their paywall.
Paywall bypassing is something I would've expected from archiving services too but I noticed this is perhaps false. For example, http://archive.is/ycfsk archived the paywall.
Delusion as a policy is pretty common, e.g. "Pinterest respects the intellectual property rights of others and we expect people on Pinterest to do the same."
