So a comic book store, by choosing what to put in the front of a store, is a publisher. Me, by choosing what Christmas decorations to put out front, is a publisher.
I wish people would simply learn to read a little law instead of routinely not understanding simple concepts.
I am an attorney.
Your analogies don’t hold. There’s no act of content reproduction (the essence of publication), as there is with the examples I provided. DMCA is about copyrightable subject matter.
So how about you knock it off with the attitude?