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from the Is-a-digital-millennium-1024-years? dept.
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: 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 ?