{"id":8597,"date":"2013-11-22T16:20:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T16:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=8597"},"modified":"2013-11-22T16:20:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T16:20:21","slug":"wordpress-com-aims-for-legal-ruling-on-dcma-takedown-notices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2013\/11\/22\/wordpress-com-aims-for-legal-ruling-on-dcma-takedown-notices\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress.com aims for legal ruling on DCMA takedown notices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress.com <a href=\"http:\/\/en.blog.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/21\/striking-back-against-censorship\/\">is increasingly seeing<\/a> the improper use of DCMA taketown notices&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230; we\u2019ve seen an increased number of improper notices. &#8230; [and one example is]&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus are experienced science journalists who operate Retraction Watch, a site that highlights and tracks situations where published scientific papers may not be everything they seem. One reader apparently disagreed with a critique published on Retraction Watch \u2013 so he copied portions of the Retraction Watch site, claimed the work as his own and issued a DMCA takedown notice against the original authors. <\/p>\n<p>While there are no legal consequences (like fines) under the DMCA for copyright abusers, there is a provision that allows victims of censorship (and their web hosts) to bring legal action against those who submit fraudulent DMCA notices.<\/p>\n<p>So today, we\u2019ve [&#8230;] take a small strike back at DMCA abuse. We\u2019ve filed two lawsuits for damages under Section 512(f) of the DMCA, which allows for suits against those who \u201cknowingly materially misrepresent\u201d a case of copyright infringement.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress.com is increasingly seeing the improper use of DCMA taketown notices&#8230; &#8220;&#8230; we\u2019ve seen an increased number of improper notices. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2013\/11\/22\/wordpress-com-aims-for-legal-ruling-on-dcma-takedown-notices\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}