tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740282838839188438.post5573625170886528065..comments2023-12-17T05:31:18.637-05:00Comments on 'kül: metaDRAMA: Not the YMCA, but the DMCA?Aaron Ricciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05003634532469211190noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740282838839188438.post-16756254466500449862012-01-12T17:26:23.296-05:002012-01-12T17:26:23.296-05:00No idea what the problematic content was; the show...No idea what the problematic content was; the show was "Re-Entry." Considering that I had no links in the post, I'm assuming that the issue was either with an improperly cited photo credit or something involving quotes from the script, but as I said in my post above, in either of those cases, especially since there was a press agent involved who provided said material, I would have expected a more direct means of contact than some sort of cease-and-desist sent to Google/Blogger.<br /><br />Mind you, I don't blame Google for taking down the post -- they didn't delete it, they simply reverted it to a draft form -- as Google shouldn't have to vet the posts it has been asked to take down. I don't blame whoever sent the request, either; they probably have a just complaint. My concern is mainly in the way in which this doesn't actually help to solve the problem (in the long-term), since I still have no idea how to resolve things, and also in my worries for the future, in which scattershot (to extend your metaphor) C&D notices wind up hitting unintended targets.Aaron Ricciohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05003634532469211190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740282838839188438.post-33770579262680861432012-01-12T10:26:34.282-05:002012-01-12T10:26:34.282-05:00Hi Aaron--I'm not too hip to the DMCA, unfortu...Hi Aaron--I'm not too hip to the DMCA, unfortunately, but this overlaps with issues I'm interested in / concerned about. Just to clarify: You received notification from Google (as the owner of Blogspot) that they had been informed of an infringement (by a government agency? some kind of monitoring body? an anonymous complaint?), and had removed the post in question? Do you have any guesses as to what the supposedly problematic material therein was? Any chance you could tell us what show this was for?<br /><br />Again, I don't really know anything about how DMCA is actually enforced, nor what the immediate obligations of a host are upon receiving a notice or complaint, but I am generally concerned about copyright overreach and the shotgun C&D approach taken by overzealous rightsholders. The impersonality and lack of detail sound immensely frustrating, though perhaps unavoidable depending on how many of these complaints a firm like Google fields every day--I suspect that at some point after enough back and forth you'd be able to reach an actual thinking human being who could vet the situation or explain what was going on, cold comfort though that may be.Sneaky Snakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06144707795190617994noreply@blogger.com