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Criticisms of EU plans for copyright censorship machines removed from Google

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Re: Criticisms of EU plans for copyright censorship machines removed from Google

#11
This is sad state of matters that I have to fallback more often to DuckDuckGo and Russian Yandex to discover public information which is censored by Google and big Co-s. Forbidden bits?

(I know Yandex may be in the other side of censorship spectrum too).

Isn't it a high time for a decentralized federated search-engine?

Re: Criticisms of EU plans for copyright censorship machines removed from Google

#13

Yeah, I'm sure it was "just an accident" Aren't DMCA requests done under penalty of perjury if incorrect? Might be interesting to subpoena some records. It wouldn't be the first dirty trick of "big-copyright", they had/have some fake twitter profiles engaging in pro-reform conversation.

Those aren't DMCA requests.

Re: Criticisms of EU plans for copyright censorship machines removed from Google

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post #4

https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/16954705 err, how is this even legal, doesn't DMCA have provisions for punishing false claims?

So from a quick look that list includes, among the other things:

- A page about Europe from Qatar Airways

- One news article about pollution in India

- An opinion piece on a German newspaper

- A link to an article about upload filters on a lawyer website

- A page about road safety from the EU commission

- An article from a NY law university about a speaker about "Labor Recruitment and its Regulation in the US-Mexico-Central America Corridor"

And several other unrelated links about copyright reform, which adds up to more than half of the links on that DCMA request.

And it was approved?

Re: Criticisms of EU plans for copyright censorship machines removed from Google

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post #11

This is sad state of matters that I have to fallback more often to DuckDuckGo and Russian Yandex to discover public information which is censored by Google and big Co-s. Forbidden bits? (I know Yandex may be in the other side of censorship spectrum too). Isn't it a high time for a decentralized federated search-engine?

Yes. How?

Re: Criticisms of EU plans for copyright censorship machines removed from Google

#16
The article doesn't mention anything about filing a counter-notice [1] to get her content relisted, which the law requires be processed just as blindly as the takedown. While I'm all for shedding light on abuses of the current system, the implication that she has no recourse is simply false.

In fact, I'm surprised that the widespread DMCA claim abuse hasn't spawned some quick-and-easy counter-notice services to help people get their content reinstated.

[1] http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/responding-dmca-takedown-not...

Re: Criticisms of EU plans for copyright censorship machines removed from Google

#17
> on whether to force internet platforms to install upload filters.

Then stop using "internet platforms". Put a web server on your router and get sharing. And only share stuff you make.

> Check SaveYourInternet.today

That's not my Internet you're saving, it's a centralised corpnet. If you only use corporate platforms then of course you're at their whim.

I'm feeling bloody-minded enough to hope that these laws are passed. A shock to the system seems to be the only way to stop the Internet coalescing around FANGAM or whomever.

Maybe the FidoNet guys had the right idea all along.

Re: Criticisms of EU plans for copyright censorship machines removed from Google

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post #10
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Among the press articles and misc pages lies https://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_safety/useful-links/eu-l... , a page from the European Commission web site that sports tiny logos from the companies they link to. Isn't that considered fair use?

"Fair use" isn't a thing in most jurisdictions.

The DMCA is a US law, and fair use is a thing in the US. There are AFAIK specific provisions in that law regarding fair use, actually.

Re: Criticisms of EU plans for copyright censorship machines removed from Google

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post #18
post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Fair use" isn't a thing in most jurisdictions.

The DMCA is a US law, and fair use is a thing in the US. There are AFAIK specific provisions in that law regarding fair use, actually.

But the EU isn't the US and in the EU there isn't a fair use law (though depending on EU jurisdiction you get something sorta similar but way stricter)

Re: Criticisms of EU plans for copyright censorship machines removed from Google

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post #18
post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Fair use" isn't a thing in most jurisdictions.

The DMCA is a US law, and fair use is a thing in the US. There are AFAIK specific provisions in that law regarding fair use, actually.

Right, if we use this particular DMCA request as the context. But this appears to be alleging that the EU road safety page contains a copyright infringement of "Gamble Breaux-This Time (feat. Jason Singh)", which it plainly does not.
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