DMCA Takedowns Under the Microscope

-- By BrianS - 24 Mar 2010

The DMCA: Footfalls into Darkness

I have elsewhere noted that the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions changed the penumbras of copyright law significantly. So too, however, has the DMCA's takedown provision, 17 U.S.C. section 512(c), modified the playing field for content owners, content creators, and content hosts.

The Problem with Repeating: Three Strikes Provisions

The Unblinking Eye: Automatic Digital Censors

Conclusion

Sources to Integrate:

EFF's Takedown Hall of Shame

Ars Technica - ContentID Filter, the new takedown supernotice?

Viacom - We Goofed on that Takedown with Colbert...

What fair use? Three strikes and you're out... of YouTube

YouTube's January Fair Use Massacre

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