How copyright law is being misused to remove material from the internet
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/23/copyright-law-internet-mumsnet
In fact, no copyright infringement had occurred at all.
Instead, something weirder had happened. At some point after
Narey posted her comments on Mumsnet, someone had copied the
entire text of one of her posts and pasted it, verbatim, to a
spammy blog titled "Home Improvement Tips and Tricks". The
post, headlined "Buildteam interior designers" was backdated
to September 14 2015, three months before Narey had written
it, and was signed by a "Douglas Bush" of South Bend, Indiana.
The website was registered to someone quite different, though:
Muhammed Ashraf, from Faisalabad, Pakistan ... Mumsnet deleted
the post, and asked Google to reinstate the thread, but a
month later, they received final word from the search firm:
"'Google has decided not to take action based on our policies
concerning content removal and reinstatement' which (it turned
out) meant that they had delisted the entire thread" ... But
in recent years, big web companies have started funding
lawsuits themselves, to fill the gap in the law and tilt the
scales a bit further in favour of content creators wrongly
accused.
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--Lauren--
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