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You'd think that should fall under the perjury penalty of the DMCA, I thought that misrepresenting oneself as the copyright holder was what that was for. But m
by Natsu 4y ago
You'd think that should fall under the perjury penalty of the DMCA, I thought that misrepresenting oneself as the copyright holder was what that was for. But maybe they didn't file any such DMCA notice, I dunno.
- Scaevolus 4y agoNobody has ever been prosecuted for perjury under DMCA. https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/51541/has-anyone-been-convicted-of-perjury-for-false-dmca-takedown-notices https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/51541/has-anyone-bee...
- Natsu 4y agoOh, I agree that it's a completely toothless provision in practice, but claiming the copyright on someone else's work and then trying to take down the person's own copyrighted work seems like exactly the sort of thing it was supposed to cover. The article you linked makes the point that at least one civil suit did give damages for dealing with a bogus DMCA takedown, but that it was unrelated to the perjury provision.