{"id":4003,"date":"2010-04-08T00:35:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T05:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=4003"},"modified":"2010-04-08T00:35:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T05:35:47","slug":"repost-dmca-takedowns-trampling-on-free-speech-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/08\/repost-dmca-takedowns-trampling-on-free-speech-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost :: DMCA takedowns: trampling on free speech rights?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In the paper, Seltzer argues that &#8220;federal law, through copyright and the DMCA, bears direct responsibility for the chilling restriction on online speech&#8230; Depriving speakers of opportunities for publication and dissemination can be tantamount to banning speech; pressuring distribution points can cut them off.&#8221;One of her key points is that the law gives rightsholders the power to demand takedowns, but copyright infringement is often unclear. &#8220;Copyright law and its fair use provisions, of course, are far from a bright line,&#8221; she writes. &#8220;Many of the cases ISPs are called in to adjudicate pursuant to DMCA notices are fact-specific disputes even courts would be unable to decide on summary judgment.&#8221;<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/news\/2010\/04\/dmca-takedowns-a-free-speech-killer.ars\">DMCA takedowns: trampling on free speech rights?<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the paper, Seltzer argues that &#8220;federal law, through copyright and the DMCA, bears direct responsibility for the chilling restriction on online speech&#8230; Depriving speakers of opportunities for publication and dissemination can be tantamount to banning speech; pressuring distribution points can cut them off.&#8221;One of her key points is that the law gives rightsholders the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/08\/repost-dmca-takedowns-trampling-on-free-speech-rights\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost :: DMCA takedowns: trampling on free speech rights?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}