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This allows for copyright holders to send out take-down notices without incurring much liability; to get the content back up, the recipients need to expend considerably more resources. Section 512(f) makes the sender of an invalid claim liable for the damages resulting from the content's improper removal, including legal fees, but that remedy ...
In 2001 the Electronic Frontier Foundation launched a collaborative clearinghouse for notice and takedown requests, known as Chilling Effects. [23] Researchers have been using the clearinghouse to study the use of cease-and-desist demands, primarily looking at DMCA 512 takedown notices, but also non-DMCA copyright issues, and trademark claims.
On the fifth anniversary of the DMCA, and several times afterwards, the Electronic Frontier Foundation documented harmful consequences of the anti-circumvention provisions. [104] They document that the DMCA: Stifles free expression, such as in its use against Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov, Princeton Professor Edward Felten, and journalists;
Subsequently, magnolia1234 migrated Bypass Paywalls Clean to GitHub, where it was targeted by another DMCA takedown notice submitted by the News Media Alliance, resulting in GitHub restricting downloads of the software and its 3,879 forks in August 2024. [2] [5] The extension supports Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. [3]
In 2021, Nintendo of America's legal team issued a mass DMCA takedown of 379 games removed out from Game Jolt. Many of the games' developers and fans have been taken it by surprise, although Nintendo's mention of advertisement revenue being used on the games' page made the reasoning behind the takedowns. [ 38 ]
Furthermore, Lenz had not suffered any significant damages from Universal's notice to YouTube to take down the video. [2] [5] In a later proceeding, the district court ruled against both parties in their motions for summary judgment against each other, creating a stalemate. [6]
youtube-dl is a free and open source software tool for downloading video and audio from YouTube [3] and over 1,000 other video hosting websites. [4] It is released under the Unlicense software license. [5] As of September 2021, youtube-dl is one of the most starred projects on GitHub, with over 100,000 stars. [6]
CBS News issued a DMCA takedown notice and had the video removed from YouTube. [34] 2009: In September 2009, "Photoshop Disasters"—a blog covering egregious photo editing missteps—published a photo of a Polo Ralph Lauren ad in which the model's body was grotesquely smaller than her head.