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Don't Be Bullied By Big Business! Counter False Copyright Infringement Claims

Slashdot had a story today about someone named Christopher Knight that was charged with copyright infringement by Viacom two weeks ago.  He had a clip on YouTube that was taken down after this charge, but recently the clip was back up on the site.  Apparently what happened was that Mr. Knight wrote a "Counter Claim Letter" to YouTube and it was determined that Viacom had no right to make this charge.

Instead of being bullied Mr. Knight used this little known letter to stand up for himself. 

To see the Slashdot story: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/13/2028206

Below (between the lines) is a sample DMCA Counter Notification Letter that was drafted by Dave Touretzky and used by permission and can also be found on his webpage: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Terrorism/form-letter.html

Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2007 at 09:15PM by Registered CommenterJustin Hall in | Comments1 Comment

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See this item (available for free download in PDF file) about the growing problem of "copyfraud" — in which publishers, archives, and distributors make false claims of copyright to shut down free expression:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=787244#PaperDownload
September 30, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterFreebie

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