er.. yes it is copyright law...
It's the Digital Millenium Copyright Act... From Wikipedia:
"The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a United States copyright law.."
If you read further:
"It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services intended to circumvent measures (commonly known as
digital rights management or DRM) that control access to copyrighted works. It also criminalizes the act of circumventing an access control, whether or not there is actual infringement of copyright itself."
Neither of the two things it criminilizes is copyright infringement.
It does also create a safe harbour for sites that remove infringing files if removed after receiving a DMCA takedown notice. If they ignore the request then they aren't covered by the safe harbour and will be liable to prosecution under normal copyright law. This is why sites outside the US honour DMCA take down notices, if they ignore it then their local law applies anyway. However it neither adds or removes anything to copyright law about what constitutes an infringement.
So it's not actually a copyright law. The act wasn't very well written.
And of course DMCA doesn't apply to Franko as foreign laws are not enforceable in Scotland...
No, but EUCD does apply to Franko & it's worse than DMCA.
