{"id":3075,"date":"2005-11-30T16:42:19","date_gmt":"2005-11-30T20:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2005\/11\/30\/meet-the-new-beam-it-similar-to-the-"},"modified":"2005-11-30T16:42:19","modified_gmt":"2005-11-30T20:42:19","slug":"meet-the-new-beam-it-similar-to-the-old-beam-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2005\/11\/30\/meet-the-new-beam-it-similar-to-the-old-beam-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the New Beam-it, Similar to the Old Beam-it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1503'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandrepublic.com\/bulletins\/digital\/article\/530449\/-new-oboe-services-gives-users-access-online-music-locker-storage-system\/\">So far as I can tell<\/a>, Michael Robertson&#8217;s new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mp3tunes.com\/\">Oboe Music Locker<\/a> is leaning on music owner&#8217;s fair use right and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/html\/uscode17\/usc_sec_17_00000512----000-.html\">the DMCA safe harbor 512(c)<\/a> to avoid the fate of his sued-to-death Beam-it service (aka, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gigalaw.com\/library\/umg-mp3-2000-05-04-p1.html\">the MP3.com suit<\/a>).&nbsp;<br \/>\nSince Oboe isn&#8217;t loading the songs by itself and is instead allowing<br \/>\nusers to copy music onto Oboe&#8217;s servers, Oboe is much like any other<br \/>\nhosting service. The uploader may be making a fair use. Even if there<br \/>\nis some direct infringement occurring, rights holders would have to<br \/>\nsend a notice for takedown.&nbsp; Of course, the rights holders have no<br \/>\nidea what&#8217;s in people&#8217;s private lockers, so this seems unlikely.&nbsp;<br \/>\nAt least that&#8217;s what their reasoning seems to be.<\/p>\n<p>Question: to what extent could <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mp3tunes.com\/cb\/screenshots\/\">these screenshots<\/a> give Oboe sufficient knowledge to preclude protection under the safe harbor?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far as I can tell, Michael Robertson&#8217;s new Oboe Music Locker is leaning on music owner&#8217;s fair use right and the DMCA safe harbor 512(c) to avoid the fate of his sued-to-death Beam-it service (aka, the MP3.com suit).&nbsp; Since Oboe isn&#8217;t loading the songs by itself and is instead allowing users to copy music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}