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Google has safe harbor so long as they are a neutral middleman between the two parties with conflicting copyright claims. Taking payment from one party to ignor
by snowwrestler 5y ago
Google has safe harbor so long as they are a neutral middleman between the two parties with conflicting copyright claims. Taking payment from one party to ignore the lawful claims from the other party is not exactly neutral.
I bet if you asked Google’s General Counsel whether they ignore DMCA counter claims, they would say “no, we handle them properly,” not “yes, Sony Music pays us to ignore them.”
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Google has safe harbor so long as they are a neutral middleman between the two parties with conflicting copyright claims. That might be what you’d like the law to say, but the safe harbor law is very explicit on what it requires, and being a “neutral middleman” is not it. Not sure why people like to pretend DMCA and Section 230 include neutrality requirements that aren't actually there.