ICANN Email Archives: [whois-comments]

["Raquel Alcantara" <ralcantara@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*         Identify your business;

Copyright Industry

 

*         Explain briefly how you use Whois data

 

To find data about website´s owners

 

*         Express the concern that these uses fall outside the scope of 
Formulation 1

 

Whois databases remain publicly accessible, accurate, and reliable, as key 
tools against online infringement of copyright

 

Describe briefly how your business, your customers, and the public would be 
hurt if you no longer had access to Whois data for these uses you describe;

 

The term of piracy is generally used to describe the deliberate infringement of 
copyright on a commercial scale. In relation to the music industry it refers to 
unauthorised copying. Copyright is the means by which a person or a business 
makes a living from creativity. Copyright springs from a simple notion: the 
people that create, produce or invest in creative work should be the ones that 
decide how that work should be reproduced and made available to the public.

Copyright laws must ensure that artists, composers and record producers are 
strongly protected from internet piracy. Rights holders also need to be able to 
use the technologies of the internet to manage and control the use of their 
works.

There are a lot of illegal sites (web, ftp) accused of hosting copyrighted 
music online that we have to investigate them. It´s very important to know data 
of WHOIS.

 

*         Urge ICANN not to adopt Formulation 1.    

The decision take off tools to deal with the piracy problem.

Copyright holders can send cease-and-desist letters to Internet 
providers/hosting when subscribers are discovered offering unauthorized 
material and it´s need to know this sort of information (whois)