infringing

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"[Copyright enforcers] have unprecedented legal tools at their disposal [following amendments to the Copyright Act in 2005-2006], yet instead of using those tools to go after the people they alleged are infringing, there are calling upon the intermediaries to do their enforcement.

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  1. transitive verb To transgress or exceed the limits of; violate: infringe a contract; infringe a patent.
  2. transitive verb Obsolete To defeat; invalidate.
  3. intransitive verb To encroach on someone or something; engage in trespassing: an increased workload that infringed on his personal life.

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  • Reasonably sufficient detail to enable us to identify and locate the material that is claimed to be infringing (for example a link to the page that contains the material); —  Hyphen Blog
  • Kindly do not post any defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, discriminatory or unlawful material or information. —  NDTV News - Top Stories
  • Zeemote JS1 bring wireless nunchuck gaming action (and it vaguely copyright-infringing name) to Nokia handsets. —  Engadget Mobile
  • An identification of the material on The Bradenton Herald that you claim is infringing or is subject to infringing activity, with enough detail so that we can locate the material on our site. —  Homepage
  • C. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit MLBAM to locate the material.
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