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by ikeboy 6y ago
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/is-the-dmcas-notice-and-takedown-system-working-in-the-21st-century https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/is-the-dmcas-notic...
There's a hearing going on in the Senate today in two hours (linked in the article), if anyone wants to watch the livestream.
- jcranmer 6y agoThe hearing just started. Tiller's opening remarks do not leave me with much hope. It's basically "copyright owners are suffering!" and there's no reference to DMCA abuse...
- Mindwipe 6y agoThat's because DMCA abuse is broadly a myth.
- ikeboy 6y agoAmazon testified in 2016 that over 50% of DMCA notices received for Kindle Direct were bogus: > So with Kindle Direct publishing, authors routinely try to climb to the top spot in their category or the top of their browse note, as Amazon would call it, by issuing bogus notices against higher ranking titles. And this for us actually accounts for more than half of the takedown notices that we receive. https://www.copyright.gov/policy/section512/public-roundtable/transcript_05-13-2016.pdf https://www.copyright.gov/policy/section512/public-roundtabl...