User talk:Wwwwolf/Copyright and ToU analysis

There's a lot of great stuff here, just needs a more neutral, impersonal tone and it could easily be incorporated into existing articles. --Champthom 01:27, 7 September 2009 (CEST)

Most of this can be boiled down to "Sonichu et al. are derivative works, and they are therefore not copyrightable. Despite Chris's claims, they aren't even protected as 'parodies', since they're presented in total seriousness." Once you've got all of that established, everything else flows from it for completely obvious reasons that need not be explicated. :3 Llort 22:08, 20 September 2009 (CEST)

What Being an Agent Entails

You expressed some confusion over this. Acting as an agent of someone under contract law as I understand it means that you have entered into some sort of legally binding contract with the entity in order to represent them to others. This usually takes the form of an employer/employee relationship.

Actions taken by someone doing their duty as an agent are considered in contract law to be the actions of the employer. The employer is liable for the whatever an agent does while preforming their duties as an agent, meaning if an agent does something wrong as a result of the duties expected of them by their employer, their employer can be brought to court for it.

TL;DR: An agent is an employee. --Beat 21:39, 30 September 2009 (CEST)

Yup, I'm not sure what the exact terms of the DMCA are, since I haven't read the thing entirely, but I was definitely under the impression that it definitely had to be a specific, legally binding agreement between the copyright holder and whoever does the DMCA reporting, to the tune of "person A specifically authorizes person B to file DMCA notices against people who violate copyrights on works X, Y and Z, to which person A holds copyright". Not Chris's "person A hereby generally authorizes everyone to file DMCA notices against any works that they suspect may or may not be under the copyright of person A". People have gotten into very very serious hot water over informal and clueless agreements to let someone else handle DMCA claims - just remember what happened to VenomFangX. --wwwwolf (wake me when you need me) 23:27, 30 September 2009 (CEST)