A donation-based record label is back online Tuesday after its Web-hosting company took the label's Web site offline for alleged copyright violations.
One problem, though. The label – Quote Unquote Records – produces all of its own content, and was perplexed as to how it could have infringed upon itself.
“A little over a week ago, I was notified by my web hosting company that I had some files of copyrighted music on my Web site," label founder Jeff Rosenstock wrote in a Saturday MySpace blog post. “The files were songs … that I had written. I spoke to a person on the phone who said 'Well, OK, if those are your songs then never mind.'"
Rosenstock said the only copyrighted material he was storing on his company's servers were four albums from the band 311. After the notification from the Web hosting company, he removed that content.
“Three days later my site was down, due to having copyrighted files on my site, a violation of the terms of service," Rosenstock wrote. “The only way I could get my site back up and running would be to mail my registered copyright forms to them."
But Quote Unquote did not register its content with the U.S. Copyright Office. It obtained copyrights via Creative Commons, a non-profit organization that provides free legal tools that provide a standardized way to grant copyright permissions to creative works.
One problem, though. The label – Quote Unquote Records – produces all of its own content, and was perplexed as to how it could have infringed upon itself.
“A little over a week ago, I was notified by my web hosting company that I had some files of copyrighted music on my Web site," label founder Jeff Rosenstock wrote in a Saturday MySpace blog post. “The files were songs … that I had written. I spoke to a person on the phone who said 'Well, OK, if those are your songs then never mind.'"
Rosenstock said the only copyrighted material he was storing on his company's servers were four albums from the band 311. After the notification from the Web hosting company, he removed that content.
“Three days later my site was down, due to having copyrighted files on my site, a violation of the terms of service," Rosenstock wrote. “The only way I could get my site back up and running would be to mail my registered copyright forms to them."
But Quote Unquote did not register its content with the U.S. Copyright Office. It obtained copyrights via Creative Commons, a non-profit organization that provides free legal tools that provide a standardized way to grant copyright permissions to creative works.
