Copyright Information

The first time this term came up, visions of BSA - Business Software Alliance - Agents hunting down pirates in a Matrix like circumstances flashed through my head. But nowadays, a copyright agent seems to be a real working person. The interesting and intriguing name must have a clear definition behind it, and although it might ruin the romantic idea of cyber agents, let us find out what a copyright agent actually is and what he does. The first explanation is delivered by the internet portal Yahoo, which employs many copyright agents. The statement introducing the agent precedes a declaration by the portal that they respect the copyright and the intellectual property laws and rights of creators, therefore they employ a copyright agent to handle all inquiries and complaints regarding possible copyright infringement situations which take place on any of Yahoo's servers. When digging a little deeper, any and all portals, providers of internet images and templates, internet image and photo agencies, actually providers of any downloads, have a page where direct contact to the copyright agent is provided, per mail, phone and e-mail, where an individual whose copyrighted work has been infringed upon and is hosted on their website,