Fighting DMCA Issue in Stack Exchange

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Post by sudeep1 » Fri, Dec 25, 2015, 4:18 AM UTC

Fighting DMCA Issue in Stack Exchange
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Re: Fighting DMCA Issue in Stack Exchange

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Post by viraptor » Fri, Dec 25, 2015, 4:52 AM UTC

The title is weird. The author didn't fight DMCA in SE. He sent an email that was not a DMCA takedown request to a DMCA report address and SE did a nice thing by responding.

I like that SE refused to reassign author - it's not a good solution and they'd end up with two annoyed parties instead. SE did more than they had to here.

Re: Fighting DMCA Issue in Stack Exchange

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Post by sudeep1 » Fri, Dec 25, 2015, 6:15 AM UTC

viraptor wrote: post #2

The title is weird. The author didn't fight DMCA in SE. He sent an email that was not a DMCA takedown request to a DMCA report address and SE did a nice thing by responding. I like that SE refused to reassign author - it's not a good solution and they'd end up with two annoyed parties instead. SE did more than they had to here.

Why do you think so? What could be the possible title?

Re: Fighting DMCA Issue in Stack Exchange

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Post by viraptor » Fri, Dec 25, 2015, 7:23 AM UTC

sudeep1 wrote: post #3

viraptor wrote: post #2

The title is weird. The author didn't fight DMCA in SE. He sent an email that was not a DMCA takedown request to a DMCA report address and SE did a nice thing by responding. I like that SE refused to reassign author - it's not a good solution and they'd end up with two annoyed parties instead. SE did more than they had to here.

Why do you think so? What could be the possible title?

Why: DMCA takedown request is a very specific process and it requests immediate removal of content. Poster can then dispute it to get it restored. (http://brainz.org/dmca-takedown-101/) As far as I understand your post, that's not what you submitted since modifying the content / replacing the author is not one of the DMCA outcomes.

Possible: "Asking SE to reown/remove plagiarised content"

Why reowning is a bad idea? Because you didn't create that post and the post has effects inside of SE system (reputation, comment addressing, etc.). Nothing of course stops you from requesting a takedown and posting the same content again from your own account. Request to reown some already posted content seems a bit dodgy to me.