The company is being targeted by a blizzard
of takedown requests sent to Google, which recently started actually taking this data into...
One of the consequences of this event was hitting Apple with a slew
of takedown requests.
First, we've got the «copyright troll» searching for news stories reposted by bloggers, purchasing copyrights and suing on them, without so much as the courtesy
of a takedown request (as noted by Above the Law yesterday).
The decision seems to require a very subtle understanding of the facts behind information that is the subject
of a takedown request.
Not exact matches
A notification
of claimed copyright infringement should be emailed to Tubi's copyright agent at
[email protected] (subject line: «DMCA
Takedown Request»).
Playster are not recommended for ebook downloads, for the content advertised is often not present, and is not recommended for independant authors, for once spammers have access to your book descriptions, one may find one spends months
of ones life filing DMCA
takedown requests.
You probably are infringing (occasionally and technically), but this sort
of use is widespread online, and it's rare to get in any trouble aside from a
takedown request.
All they
requested was a
takedown of the files, they're not going to take him to court over this.
Attorney Mona Ibrahim disagreed with these censorship accusations, arguing that the
takedown request's legitimacy is a matter
of licensing.
In what seems yet another questionable business move from Atlus (after the Persona 5 streaming debacle), the company has now tried to take down Nekotekina's Patreon page for funding the development
of RPCS3, an open - source PS3 emulator, via a DMCA
takedown request.
While, in combination, the abilities to
request de-indexing and / or source
takedown of information in certain circumstances are similar to the «Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten)» in the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), this paper does not import a European framework into Canada.
The other aspect
of the report deals with standardized
takedown request forms and calling on Parliament to establish a stronger ability for youth to
request and obtain the deletion
of information they themselves have posted on social media, and in appropriate cases, information posted about them online by their parents or guardians when they reach the age
of majority.
Elsevier, ACS, and a number
of other publishers have recently formed a Coalition for Responsible Sharing, which issued a statement on October 5th, 2017 indicating its plans to «issue
takedown notices to ResearchGate
requesting that infringing content be removed from the site.
Also included is an obligation for any website «where people can hold conversations in the form
of posted messages» must develop infrastructure and contact mechanisms for a.) allowing
takedown requests to be submitted and b.) for contacting anonymous posters and seeking their... [more]
In practice, because the law penalizes covered entities that don't hop to it on
takedown requests but has no penalty for ignoring counter notices, covered entities generally just take stuff down when asked with no requirement
of proof.
[Dave Lieber / Dallas News, Volokh in September and related on similar schemes here (
takedown request against one
of Volokh's own posts) and here (private default judgment cited in
request to Google to deindex government documents), earlier here, etc..]