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Hoaxed US Chamber thumps pranksters with blunt instrument
Can you DMCA a parody that looks like the real thing? With this week’s lesson in the vagaries of copyright law, we seek to answer the following question: If someone uses your copyrighted material to build a website that fools a Reuters reporter into thinking you’ve suddenly changed your mind, are you legally empowered to destroy their clever online hoax with a DMCA takedown notice?…
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The homepage of Pirate Bay disappeared from Google’s search results Friday, after Google allegedly received a DMCA takedown notice targeting the site. The move is unexpected because, while the Pirate Bay is rife with pirated material, the site’s spare landing page contains no content to speak of — just links, a logo and a search box. By law, DMCA notices are targeted to specific infringing content.
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