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Until we start holding people accountable for filing false DMCA notices we will continue to see massive abuse of DMCA Takedown requests.
by rblatz 10y ago
Until we start holding people accountable for filing false DMCA notices we will continue to see massive abuse of DMCA Takedown requests.
- hasteur 10y agoknowingly filing a false DMCA notice is perjury, and because the filer is a lawyer, the state bar can take care of his misconduct.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> knowingly filing a false DMCA notice is perjury Not entirely true; one of the things that has been frequently criticized about the DMCA notice process is that the only part of the DMCA "takedown" notice that is under penalty of perjury is the statement "that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed." None of the rest of the material in the notice, notably including the identification of the allegedly infringing material or the statement of "good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law" is under penalty of perjury. See 17 U.S.C. Sec. 512(c)(3)(A)