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Originally Posted by Mr. Nerfect
For shame, AEW. For shame.
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Holy fuck!
You all are just as pathetically dumb and desperate as the moron who apparently tweeted this. You should really leave the lawyering to us actual lawyers.
AEW can have as many multiple different unregistered agents who can SEND DMCA takedown notices on behalf of AEW when AEW claims someone else is infringing AEW's copyright(s) that AEW wants taken down. For example, a Twitter user uploads content to Twitter that infringes on AEW's copyrights, AEW can hire or appoint multiple agents to find and issue DMCA notices for AEW. It sound like this is something he used to some degree be involved in for AEW, maybe as someone who was supposed to research ContentID and/or look for infringing content for AEW. There's no such thing as a US Copyright Office registered agent for SENDING notices on behalf of someone.
AEW can only have one registered agent with this US Copyright Office who RECEIVES DMCA takedown notices for AEW FROM other parties who are claiming copyright infringement of the other party's copyright(s) by AEW on an AEW owned platform/website. For example, AEW allows visitors to their website or users of some other AEW owned platform to upload content to the AEW website/platform, then AEW would want to have a DMCA registered agent to RECEIVE DMCA notices from (let's say WWE) claiming the user uploaded content that infringed WWE's copyrights.
This clown doesn't understand this and is claiming that because the agents issuing DMCA notices for AEW aren't the same as the single agent registered to receive AEW's DMCA notices that this is somehow bad. He couldn't be more wrong. This idiot says I'm not a lawyer and then proceeds to claim that AEW will have a legal issue in a way that doesn't apply to the situation he's claiming occurred.
The only way AEW's lack of a DMCA registered agent would impact AEW is if AEW was the owner of a host platform or website that allowed independent users of the platform/website to post content to AEW's platform and IF any user posted content that infringed the copyright(s) of other parties who sued AEW, AEW could be liable for $ damages for infringement as much as the user would be. That's not what he's even claiming happened here, let alone that it's the legal issue he's bringing to their attention, and given that as far as I know, AEW doesn't own a platform that allows independent user's to upload user submitted content to the platform, this guy's so out of his depth and misinformed.
What happened is someone sent his email on to counsel who said "oh we should really go ahead and register an DMCA agent in case AEW ever decides to start a platform/site that allows users to upload content on it or if AEW's website gets hacked through a CMS user account by someone who randomly uploads infringing content"
Also,
at that email being "threatening".