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I've now turned the focus of what I do from webwork to more of a media perspective as I seem to be faring better in graphix design as well as working other media pojects than just web work (VHS to DVD, DVD creation, Startup screen creation, T-shirt desn, Audio mixing etc...) Anyway I'm thinking of creating a site that would allow blogers to host their own images and photos as well as video on my site that they could link to. The only problem that I am contemplating is if people wanted to host MP3's for background music for their blogs (as many xanga users do due to the new easy to use music integration option) Anyway, if someone hosted a copyrighted file it would become my problem but if I added an aggreement policy that stated something like
"All media hosted remains the property of the user. By uploading media to this site the user stipulates that all copyrights to the media are that of the user or that of a third party whom the user has obtained the rights to upload this file from. (My Site) Will not be held liable for the misuse of this free service. (My Site) Takes copyright infringement very seriously and will immediately delete any uploaded file found to be in violation of a copyright at the owner of the copyright's request. All relavent information will be turned over to the authories and copyright owners. (My site) reserves the right to not issue warning before deleating a file or banning of an user"
While not very well phrased you et thie jist of what I am trying to do. Would this protect me from lawsuits? (Legitimant that is, anyone can bring a frivolous lawsuit)
Thanks!
"All media hosted remains the property of the user. By uploading media to this site the user stipulates that all copyrights to the media are that of the user or that of a third party whom the user has obtained the rights to upload this file from. (My Site) Will not be held liable for the misuse of this free service. (My Site) Takes copyright infringement very seriously and will immediately delete any uploaded file found to be in violation of a copyright at the owner of the copyright's request. All relavent information will be turned over to the authories and copyright owners. (My site) reserves the right to not issue warning before deleating a file or banning of an user"
While not very well phrased you et thie jist of what I am trying to do. Would this protect me from lawsuits? (Legitimant that is, anyone can bring a frivolous lawsuit)
Thanks!