Shreya Tewari, Berkman Center, discusses Lumen Project and database of DMCA takedown notices #copyrightAM

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michael veale @neil_neilzone What deters bad faith takedown demands even more is letting the notifier know that their legal claim will be publicly reported via the Lumen. I hope someone is writing critically about the recent data protection rulings that prevent this from happening.

@neil_neilzone Daphne Keller michael veale Having those notices in Lumen makes it possible or easier to identify patterns of bad actors like that, and also provides data points that can be checked against other verifiable things, allowing a "bad" notice to be IDed as such. See, e.g., Prof Volokh's work on Court orders

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Notice and takedown abuse is super real, y’all. Here are almost 34k examples of the old “make a backdated copy, then DMCA the original” trick, mostly to suppress news coverage about political corruption. lumendatabase.org/blog_entries/o…

⚠️⚠️⚠️ Okay, it's about time we talk about the stark increase in the Government Takedown Requests sent to Google, YouTube, Twitter and other OSPs.

Interesting research by Lumen showing an organized attempt to abuse copyright law through fake DMCA notices. Almost 30% of DMCA notices from the 30,000+ sample came from Ukraine & Russia. Many notices targeted 🇷🇺🇱🇹🇺🇦 news uncovering corruption lumendatabase.org/blog_entries/o…

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🚨🚨🚨 Here is a copy of the legal request sent by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to Twitter requiring removal of tweets discussing BBC News (UK) documentary 'India: The Modi Question' lumendatabase.org/notices/303906…