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Critics of DMCA takedowns flood Copyright Office with thousands of comments

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Critics of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act have flooded the U.S. Copyright Office with tens of thousands of comments complaining about a process that often forces websites to kill user-generated content when faced with a copyright complaint.

Before Thursday, the Copyright Office had received only about 80 public comments about potential changes to the DMCA’s notice-and-takedown provisions, with the comment period scheduled to close Monday.

But another 55,000 people had filed comments as of Friday morning after digital rights group Fight for the Future and YouTube channel ChannelAwesome launched a campaign late Thursday to encourage people to complain about “the many ways that the DMCA is abused to censor and take down legitimate content from the Internet, stifling innovation, cultural creation, and freedom of speech.”

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EFF: Modify DMCA to protect independent research into car hacking

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Car owners – in other words, almost everyone – were buzzing in a bad way yesterday about a report in Wired that showed two security experts demonstrating the ability to remotely commandeer and control a Jeep that was traveling on a highway.

It was harrowing just to read about this sophisticated hack, never mind imagining the reality of finding oneself in such a situation.

Whether coincidental or not, lawmakers are responding with calls to hold the auto industry to task.

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Network World Paul McNamara

‘Dancing baby’ DMCA case is taking a lifetime

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A toddler when his star turn in a homemade YouTube video incurred the legal wrath of Universal Studios and Prince, the “Dancing Baby” at the heart of an important copyright case is likely nine years old today.

Which means the wheels of justice have been grinding on this one for eight years.  And they may grind on for who knows how many more.

For those who have yet to see it, here’s the video:

Today a California appeals court will hear Universal’s appeal of a lower court ruling that held the music behemoth liable for its indiscriminate use of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown process.

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Network World Paul McNamara

The Chilling Effects of the DMCA – Slate Magazine

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Slate Magazine

The Chilling Effects of the DMCA
Slate Magazine
The graduate student, Alex Halderman (now a professor at the University of Michigan), was a wizard in the lab. As experienced computer security researchers, Alex and I knew what we should do: First, go back to the lab and triple-check everything …

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