The US Copyright Office has recently ended the public comment period on the possible revamping of the 18-year-old DMCA, and that's a shame because we've just been handed another example of...
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Category: DMCA
Take Down and Stay Down – Rethinking the DMCA
Guest post: Jonathan Bailey, editor and publisher of Plagiarism Today, discusses how a "notice and stay down" DMCA provision might work in practice. There aren’t very many people happy...
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Tumblr Reminds Us Why Creators Need to Own Their Platform
Nearly all creators know that they need to keep their copyright so that they can control their creations, but even though it's 2016 some still forget to apply that same...
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The Problem with eBook Piracy Spam
Try this experiment. Go to Amazon and pull up any book, any book at all as long as it has been out for at least a few months. Then, search...
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US Copyright Office Announces Study on Impact and Effectiveness of DMCA “Safe Harbor” Provisions
Earlier this week the Copyright Office launched a public inquiry into the impact of the DMCA exemptions process, and today it launched a second inquiry into a related part...
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US Copyright Office Wants Your Input on the DMCA Rule-Making Process
According to InfoDocket, the US Copyright Office has opened a public inquiry into the way the DMCA works. From now until 25 February, the Copyright Office is inviting the public to...
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Copyright Office Says Security Researchers May Hack Cars, But We Can’t Strip DRM From eBooks
Every three years the US Copyright Office asks the public to suggest exemptions to the DMCA restrictions on circumventing DRM. Recommendations were submitted in a Section 1201 rule-making procedure earlier this year, and...
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PSA: Playster Isn’t Illegally Hosting Your PDFs
There's a new scam sweeping the internet, one which is harming both authors and readers alike. Over the past few weeks I've heard authors say that they're finding more pirated...
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The Authors Guild Petitions Congress for Unworkable “Notice and Stay Down” Provision
The Authors Guild has just shown us that while they may have grown more author savvy under the new administration they certainly haven't become any more tech savvy than they were...
Continue readingPirate eBook Site Threatens Anti-Piracy Firm Over Bogus DMCA Notices
The Ultimate Ebook Library (TUEBL), a known pirate ebook site, is about to lay the smackdown on the anti-piracy outfit MUSO. TorrentFreak reports that TUEBL has had enough of MUSO's fraudulent DMCA, and...
Continue readingScammers Now Trolling Indie Authors With Bogus DMCA Notices
The copyright notice and takedown provisions of the DMCA may help creators by shielding sites like Youtube and the Kindle Store from liability, but that same provision can still...
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Ancestry.com Files Bogus DMCA Notice to Keep Public Domain Records Offline
Long the go-to site for declassified US govt documents, The Black Vault has recently faced a setback in its efforts to digitize and upload records from Project Bluebook, the...
Continue readingDMCA Archive Chilling Effects Mistakenly Censors Itself, Plans to Reverse Its Error
Long the goto site for tracking DMCA takedown notices, ChillingEffects.org dismayed many techies last week when it announced that it was removing itself from Google. According TorrentFreak: The Chilling...
Continue readingEFF Files for DMCA Exemption on the Right to Strip DRM from Abandoned Video Games
Two days ago I expressed regret for missing the opportunity to petition for a DMCA exemption for stripping ebook DRM after the servers have been turned off. and now...
Continue readingCafePress, Self-Publishing and the DMCA
Sometimes, in copyright circles, important cases and rulings have a way of avoiding the limelight. With all of the attention recently paid to the “Innocence of Muslims” ruling, a...
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