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Lessig Sues and Wins against Bogus DMCA Takedown

posted by janrinok on Friday February 28 2014, @09:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the perhaps-we-shouldn't-have-done-that dept.

Fluffeh writes:

"Lawrence Lessig is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School but is probably best known to readers for his work with Creative Commons, the Free Software Foundation, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Without considering fair use, Liberation Music wrongly had some of Lessig's work removed from YouTube and threatened to sue. It didn't go well. Liberation will pay Lessig an undisclosed sum for the damages it caused with the wrongful takedown. The money will go towards supporting the EFF's work on open access and the label will also 'adopt new policies' that respect fair use."

 
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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by drussell on Friday February 28 2014, @09:07PM

    by drussell (2678) on Friday February 28 2014, @09:07PM (#8774) Journal

    I'd seen this one in the submissions... hoped it would make it on the main page :)

    While it shouldn't be necessary in the first place, for once a victory... Nice to see.

    Now if we could just fix the other quadrillion instances or fix the whole system, we'd be set but I don't see that happening any time soon, unfortunately.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by NovelUserName on Friday February 28 2014, @09:50PM

    by NovelUserName (768) on Friday February 28 2014, @09:50PM (#8817)

    Agreed: Kudos to Professor Lessig for presenting a single case example. Now we, as a society, need to do the really hard work and generalize the results.

    • (Score: 4, Informative) by mcgrew on Friday February 28 2014, @10:04PM

      by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Friday February 28 2014, @10:04PM (#8832) Homepage Journal

      He's been doing this stuff for a long time. I read one of his books (they're online), his biggest regret is losing the case against excessive copyright lengths before the supreme court, but he's had victories as well. Like this.

      See, not ALL lawyers are evil!

      --
      Poe's Law [nooze.org] has nothing to do with Edgar Allen Poetry

      • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Random2 on Friday February 28 2014, @10:26PM

        by Random2 (669) on Friday February 28 2014, @10:26PM (#8845)

        Indeed, it's nice to see lawyers like these. I know America in particular is in desperate need of another Louis_Brandeis [wikipedia.org].

        The downside of being one of the 'good guys' is how easily you're forgotten....

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        If only I registered 3 users earlier....

  • (Score: 5, Informative) by drussell on Friday February 28 2014, @10:45PM

    by drussell (2678) on Friday February 28 2014, @10:45PM (#8858) Journal

    I hate replying to myself, but I had meant to mention this in my post but forgot... Drats!

    Though I'm sure most people here are probably familiar with many of Lessig's talks, lectures, presentations, etc. but if you've never seen it or need a good overview to pass on to others, his Ted Talk on copyright and creativity is a good one:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q25-S7jzgs [youtube.com]

    • (Score: 2) by SMI on Saturday March 01 2014, @03:31AM

      by SMI (333) on Saturday March 01 2014, @03:31AM (#8950)

      Thanks, reference material is always appreciated.