Thursday, November 1, 2007

Antiwar.com files a DMCA complaint against my blog

Received in my mailbox today:
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Hello,

Blogger has been notified, according to the terms of the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), that content in your blog:

vineyardsaker.blogspot.com

allegedly infringes upon the copyrights of others. The content in question
is located in the following posts:

http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2007/10/whos-behind-pkk-in-word-washington.html

The notice that we received, with any personally identifying
information removed, will be posted online by a service called Chilling
Effects, and we will send you the link of this notice. We do this in
accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

The DMCA is a United States copyright law that provides guidelines for
online service provider liability in case of copyright infringement.
Please see http://www.educause.edu/Browse/645?PARENT_ID=254 for more
information about the DMCA, and see
http://www.google.com/blogger_dmca.html for the process that Blogger
requires in order to make a DMCA complaint.

We are asking that you please remove the allegedly infringing content in
your blog. If you do not do this within the next 3 days (by 11/4/07), we
will be forced to remove the posts in question. If we did not do so, we
would be subject to a claim of copyright infringement, regardless of its
merits.

We can reinstate this content into your blog upon receipt of a counter
notification pursuant to sections 512(g)(2) and (3) of
the DMCA. For more information about the requirements of a counter
notification and a link to a sample counter notification, see
http://www.google.com/blogger_dmca.html#counter.

Please note that repeated violations to our Terms of Service may result in
further remedial action taken against your Blogger account.

If you have legal questions about this notification, you should retain
your own legal counsel. If you have any other questions about this
notification, please let us know.

Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,
The Blogger Team
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FYI - This is the result of a DMCA complaint filed against me by Eric Garris, the webmaster of antiwar.com for posting the full text of Justin Raimondo's article on the PKK rather than an excerpt.

Needless to say, I won't bother contesting anything and let the Blogger Team remove whatever it is they want to remove.

Also, since a removal of the "offending" article will probably result in the removal of the responses to it, I have made the very interesting responses to the article available here.

I will keep you posted of any possible developments.

The Saker