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Originally Posted by aka123
I did use Google and Googled you the results about copyrights and payment processors. Didn't you read it?
You quoted (linked) some general law about copyrights. Law is divided into sections and subsections, so that you don't have to read all the shit everytime you need some information about some particular thing. Just tell the article, section, subsection, etc. I am not going to read all that shit, it would take from hours to days. Come on..
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Having studied law and stating that you know how to understand law then it surprises me you cannot look at indexes of treaties and legislation to find relevant sections.
For the benefit of your obvious lack of research skills and the interest of others here are the basics.
Secondary Liability
Secondary liability, in relation to IP law, comes about when a third party directly or indirectly facilitates the infringement of IP by providing services to the infringer, thereby contributing to, inducing, facilitating or otherwise contributing to the ability of the infringer to infringe.
In the US there are two types of secondary liability - Vicarious liability and Contributory Liability.
Examples of third party infringement or Secondary Liability might include:
- hosting infringing content
- providing payment services to a merchant selling or providing paid access to infringing content
- republishing, linking to (search engines), advertising (ad networks) infringing content
There are many more examples but these are the ones that apply in the case of a payment processor or search engine.
Google, on it's search engine, does not directly infringe upon the IP rights of of a rights holder with a site it links to, however it does carry Secondary Liability and therefore undertakes to remove links to content from it's search results when an infringed party makes a complaint.
Paypal, on it;'s payment platform, does not directly infringe upon the IP rights of content that is infringing on a site it processes payments for, however it does carry Secondary Liability, and therefore undertakes to remove payment processing from a site selling access to infringing content.
This is the law, there are several US precedents in this area, the most well known being
Gershwin Publishing Corporation, Plaintiff-appellee, v. Columbia Artists Management, Inc. 1971.
http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/...3/1159/246236/