Amazon testified in 2016 that over 50% of DMCA notices received for Kindle Direct were bogus: > So with Kindle Direct publishing, authors routinely try to clim

Amazon 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...