The digital rights advocacy group also sent a letter to TV networks asking them to stop sending bogus
takedown notices for election - related videos.
And, further, there is a contact form for trademark holders to send DMCA
takedown notices for their work.
Also, I have lack of legal experience and legal battles really makes me anxious, so I would prefer to hire a company to send
the takedown notices for me.
Sean Vanaman of Campo Santo games has stated they'll be filing DMCA
takedown notices for all of Pewdiepie's Firewatch content, as well as any future Campo Santo games.
He and the download mirrors received DMCA
takedown notices for the original file, which they have complied with.
An interesting submission in Slashdot's «Ask Slashdot» section solicits the help of commenters on a DMCA
takedown notice for an Android game called «Super Pac.»
Send a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
takedown notice for copyright infringement on the Internet.
If I (as a website owner) receive a DMCA
Takedown Notice for a user's post, am I allowed to give said user a small period of time to provide a counter-notice before I take down the post?
Not exact matches
Instead, the group, which calls itself the Coalition
for Responsible Sharing, said in a 5 October statement that ResearchGate suggested publishers should send the company formal
notices, called «
takedown notices,» asking it to remove content that breaches copyright.
At the same time, sales of the first book in her «Cocker» series — which the author claims to have trademarked before issues
takedown notices to competing authors who'd used the word «cocky» in their book titles — are still solidly in the 2000 + range, with Top 50 rankings
for two categories and Top 200 rankings in a third.
It asks them to consider key changes to the U.S. Copyright Act to give authors a productive remedy
for online infringement — not the ineffective, Sisyphean system currently in place, known as «
Notice and
Takedown.»
They bombarded Amazon with dozens of one - star
takedowns, succeeded in getting several favorable
notices erased and even took credit
for Amazon's briefly removing the book from sale.
Of course, the former issue could quickly be cleared up if there were increasing penalties
for fraudulent DMCA
takedown notices.
As
for DMCA
takedown notices, they're worthless because of the sheer volume, and unlike youtube, there has been no concerted attempt to create an automatic
takedown filter.
Further more, you'll rarely find a stationary soldier that's not facing away from you waiting
for a silent
takedown, or a guard who
noticed you an age ago carefully examining the spot you were occupying with a fine toothpick.
An American magistrate judge (sort of like a master) has ruled that a plaintiff suing a company
for improperly sending a
takedown notice under the DMCA has waived a number of heads of attorney - client privilege by discussing the details of her legal case too broadly by email and on a blog (Eric Goldman blog (per Venkat)-RRB-
Anyone «can» submit such a
notice, the relevant issues would be (a) will it achieve the desired effect of
takedown and (b) will there be legal repercussions
for submitting the
notice?
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.
What makes
for an effective DMCA
takedown notice specifically in regards to websites that host pornographic material?
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.
Recently, the legal publishing company Fastcase received a
takedown notice from the parent company of another publishing company, Casemaker, claiming they had exclusive rights to distribute,
for commercial use, the Georgia Administrative Rules and Regulations.
At the same time this means that illegal content with a correct DMCA
takedown notice stays up longer than it should, so should someone decide to sue
for copyright infringement, you are on the hook as well.
Felicissimo said the employee in question may have to send
takedown notices, reach out to the likes of Facebook
for help or perform other kinds of followup more than 40 times a day.
It is worth noting that the poster of the adorable video didn't receive a
takedown notice, YouTube just tacked on an ad, hoping to generate revenue
for Sony.
The DMCA's safe harbor and
takedown notice provisions have shaped the evolution of the web we have today, making it possible
for services like YouTube to exist without becoming sued into the ground as a result of their users» actions.
It asked
for the end of immediate
takedowns being required after copyright claims are made, immunity
for hosts if the uploader sends a counter-
notice to the claim, the requirement of
notice being sent to an uploader before a
takedown occurs, and a public database
for takedown notices.
In particular, we'll be focusing on the «
notice and
takedown» provisions that provide «safe harbor»
for many service providers, as well as the anti-circumvention provisions that criminalize many common actions.
It's the reason why websites like YouTube can exist without being liable
for damages, why
takedown notices can quickly remove pirated content (sometimes catching legitimate content in the crossfire), and why circumvention tools exist in such a legal gray area.
An organization that files DMCA
takedown notices against legitimate content without checking too closely wouldn't be liable
for any damages.
Both the McCain and the Obama campaign have had their videos removed by YouTube after news organizations complained via
takedown notice that their broadcasters» images and words are being used
for political purposes.