Re: Brinks Copyright Documents

[Nomen Nescio <nobody@xxxxxxxxx>]

Normally, distibuting copyrighted material is infringement, just the same
as copying.  The large ISPs were concerned that they might be held liable
for copyright infringement because one of their customers uploaded a movie
or a song and ten thousand other people downloaded it.

So, the law contains a "safe harbor" provision that says the ISP isn't
liable if they remove the unauthorized material when requested to do so.
Copyright owners need a way to contact the right person with these remove
requests, so the Copyright Office maintains a list, which is what this form
is for.

In addition to ISPs, other users of other people's material like TV
stations also sign up for the list.  Brink's is probably just looking for a
little insurance, in case they post someone else's copyrighted material and
the owner of that material complains.