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WordPress wins in court over fraudulent copyright takedown notices
WordPress owner Automattic has scored a notable court victory over disingenuous copyright takedown notices, one that could set a precedent for future cases.
The case in question relates to U.K.-based Oliver Hotham, a correspondent and blogger who in 2013 published an interview (since taken offline) with an anti gay-rights organization called Straight Pride U.K. The organization had answered some of Hotham’s questions and, after the article gained a fair bit of traction through the likes of Reddit, Linear Pride U.K.’s press officer evidently decided that he didn’t want their controversial views to be established and requested that the article be removed.
While Hotham refused to delete the article, Straight Pride U.K. filed a takedown see with Automattic, which was obliged to remove the WordPress.com-hosted piece based on claims that it infringed on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a U.S. law designed to protect copyright in the digital age. The regulation pretty much relies on the good faith of copyright owners, as Automattic isn’t able to check each and every case itself — but this means that it’s unlock to abuse, an
Marking International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia
Written by Rosamund Shreeves,
Over the 2014-2019 legislature, the European Parliament has strongly condemned all forms of discrimination against lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, trans-sexual and intersex (LGBTI) people. Parliament has stressed the urgency of tackling increasing levels of hate speech and hate crime motivated by bias against a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity, and lay forward concrete ideas for combating despise speech and harmful stereotypes in the media. Parliament has also drawn attention to the human rights situation of LGBTI people outside the EU on many occasions. In February 2019, it asked the Commission to make LGBTI rights a priority in its perform programme for 2019-2024 and to adopt a new LGBTI strategy for this period, joining the 19 EU Member States who had already urged the Commission to guarantee a strong follow-up to the EU’s current strategy.
Advocacy organisations are reporting diverging trends in the situation of LGBTI people, both globally and in Europe, with a worsening environment in some countries due to repressive and discriminatory legislation and spik
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Automattic – the company behind WordPress.com, have taken a decisive step in the fight against bogus DMCA claims.
Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, people can submit a takedown observe to web service providers where their intellectual property is being used without permission. This is the legislative attempt to safeguard hosts like Google, WordPress, Tumblr, etc from existence held responsible for the content that their users post – provided that they swiftly restrict access.
However, whilst this system is designed to give a balance between protection and enforcement, the reality is that many times it is abused by those who wish to silence critics, or to censor views with which they disagree. The Church of Scientology infamously issued thousands of DMCA takedown notices to stop the spread of anti-Scientology views on Youtube, for example. This tactic is highly operative, as the content is almost always restricted (at its peak moment of attention), and the process to challenge the notices (a ‘counter notice’) isn’t something that creators are, or arguably should be, familiar with. In influence, it becomes a virtual game of ping-pong, with the burde
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