Timothy Lee Miller/composer

Timothy Lee Miller/composer

Timothy Lee Miller/composer

Timothy Lee Miller/composer

Timothy Lee Miller/composer

Timothy Lee Miller/composer

Timothy Lee Miller/composer

Dear Madame Register of Copyrights: Please Support Take Down-Stay Down

Thursday, March 17, 2016 4:05 PM

by Stephen Carlisle

Why can't everyone see that Section 512 of the Copyright Act, more popularly known as the "Take Down" provisions of the DMCA, is an abysmal failure? If take down worked, the number of notices should go down. Instead the number of takedown notices sent increases exponentially every year. This is an enormous waste of time and resources for everyone involved. ... What take down-stay down proposes is to end "whack-a-mole." This means that when a Section 512 takedown notice is filed, and is not the subject of a legitimate counter-notice, then it becomes the responsibility of the web site to prevent the same or largely the same file from being reposted to the same web site. Continue Reading

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