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notice policy. If the service provider qualifies for safe harbor protection under the
DMCA, the service provider is immune from damages caused by users.
Users can access and use copyrighted material without author's consent under fair
use principles. Fair use doctrines may protect a user who copies a song from his/her
hard drive into cloud, but fair use will not excuse a user who uses a cloud service to
share copyrighted material.
Regarding the adequacy of current law to resolve copyright issues arising from
cloud computing, it is noticed that in the MP3tunes case, the court determined that the
cloud computing service provider was eligible for DMCA protection because the
service provider met the statutory requirements for the DMCA's safe harbor and
implemented an effective takedown notice policy. Even though the court determined
that the DMCA's safe harbor principles were applicable to cloud computing services
providers, the nature of certain services, like private clouds, represents a new
challenge in copyright legal protection in this field.

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