On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Gervase Markham wrote: > "In its submission, Google notes that more than half (57%) of the > takedown notices it has received under the US Digital Millennium > Copyright Act 1998, were sent by business targeting competitors and over > one third (37%) of notices were not valid copyright claims." > > http://www.pcworld.co.nz/article/483729/google_submission_hammers_section_92a/ > > As our Marketplace gets more popular, I'm sure we are going to get cases > where competitors attempt to disrupt each others' businesses in this way. Yes, that is my main concern here, dirty play.
Obviously if you use a trademark you are doing something wrong, but what if you are using just an API to connect to a closed protocol there is no app on the platform to do so and they use DMCAs as an attack to block these kind of apps? (Skype, Hangouts and other protocols come to my mind). Regards. -- Rubén Martín [Nukeador] Mozilla Reps Mentor http://www.mozilla-hispano.org http://twitter.com/mozilla_hispano http://facebook.com/mozillahispano
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