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Fluffeh writes:
A new paper published in the Virginia Journal of Law and Technology shows that the number of DMCA notices received by Google increased 711,887 percent in four years. The increase can be credited to a few copyright holders and industry groups such as the RIAA, who started an avalanche of takedown requests after the SOPA and PIPA bills died in Congress.
New research by Stanford Law School's Daniel Seng reveals that online services such as Google and Twitter have seen a surge in takedown requests in recent years. In fact, drawing on data from ChillingEffects.org, Seng finds that the number of DMCA notices processed by Google increased 711,887 percent in four years, from 62 in 2008 to 441,370 in 2012.
The most active copyright holders up until 2012 were the RIAA, Froytal and Microsoft, each listing more than five million notices. Seng's paper doesn't include the most recent data, but Google's Transparency Report shows that these numbers more than doubled again in 2013.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by enharmonix on Wednesday March 26 2014, @10:05AM
...because Google has lots of money and coincidentally some lobbyists too and for completely unrelated and entirely benevolent reasons, Congress listens to Google. Now we've just got to wait for them to discuss it. Once they do that, there's a good chance Capitol Hill will finally acknowledge what colossal abuse of consumer rights the DMCA actually is and how it's in the public interest to repeal it.
Would you look at that? I didn't know it was possible to both optimistic and cynical at the same time. This must be that ambivalence thing I've heard so much about.
(Score: 2) by bucc5062 on Wednesday March 26 2014, @10:23AM
Welcome to a New World Citizen. You will enjoy being miserable /s
It may be possible that a way to fix this is to begin to incur a cost for every Takedown notice that is incorrect. This way Google may still have to perform the request, but could now add that the "victim" could challenge through Google to prove the infringement. If it turns out to be in error, Google charges the requester. THe other option is to start charging for every take down submitted (working that into law). I would consider that to be quite the dampener on automated notices.
The more things change, the more they look the same
(Score: 2) by edIII on Wednesday March 26 2014, @07:23PM
Yeah, and why the hell not charge for it?
If you think about it for a second gubbermint charges administrative fees everywhere .
For something like a DMCA takedown request it can easily be argued in court that Google can't automate something like that yet. A human being is required to review the content and make a sophisticated determination on fair use and whether or not it's the same material.
I've had literally tens of thousands of videos flagged on a platform I developed by YouTube. If their automation is flagging me for music that I had the client purchase the specific licensing for, you can bet your butt that 700,000 of those DMCA takedown requests are bull.
How does a $25 processing fee sound? Pretty reasonable. Covers salaries and operational costs and doesn't represent a barrier to entry to any of those starving artists the copyright laws were designed to protect ?
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Wednesday March 26 2014, @01:29PM
It's sad, but the only way you seem to be able to have your rights respected is to have them align with the interests of a large company. Luckily Google needs some openness and net neutrality for their business model to work well.