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DMCA backfires and Fair Use

This stuff just doesn't stop and companies seem to never learn from their mistakes.  The first article is about a company using DMCA takedown notices to try to stop something they don't like.  Unfortunately for them, you can't knowingly use these takedown notices in an incorrect manner.  Now they are being sued for 10 mil.  Nice!

This next article is about how Fair Use adds 2.2 TRILLION dollars to the US economy every year.  That is a huge number.  Make the $40 billion that the industry claims is lost to piracy seem like chump change.  The point is that Fair Use generates far more money than adding new copywrite protections and DRM schemes.  For a capitalistic economy, this should be a no brainer but it isn't.  There are still tons of businesses out there that content DRM is needed or their businesses will crumble.

 

Published Tuesday, September 18, 2007 2:24 PM by IHateDRMAdmin

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