@blaine is there a cost to doing this? I'm only self-hosting as a single-user instance. I'm assuming the concern here is copyrighted material being shared and consumed on an instance? Do you have more details on what the goal is and protections needed are?

@tim I'm not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, etc, but I think for a single user or small "private" instance this isn't a concern. It's just if there's a risk that an instance owner's users starts posting blatantly copyrighted material that they don't have rights to.

@blaine something that might be helpful for people and new communities is a full article that explains more about this. Honestly, I'm not even clear on what I would really need to when going to that website. When talking about #ServiceProvider and #Agent those are some pretty foreign terms for people that are just working on starting a community on Mastodon. Any additional resources you could provide to folks would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for bringing this up! #DMCA

@tim @blaine And this matters regardless where the server is located?

@SebastiaanHekman @tim laws vary according to where the server is hosted and where the admin lives. Unfortunately, I don't know all the intricacies, but it looks like folks are working on guides! 😊