[Infowarrior] - Fwd: [IP] Boston Public Broadcaster WGBH Files Bogus DMCA Notice On Public Domain Video Uploaded By Carl Malamud

[Richard Forno]

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> From: "Dave Farber" <dave at farber.net>
> Subject: [IP] Boston Public Broadcaster WGBH Files Bogus DMCA Notice On Public Domain Video Uploaded By Carl Malamud
> Date: August 22, 2015 at 12:12:14 AM EDT
> To: "ip" <ip at listbox.com>
> Reply-To: dave at farber.net
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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren at vortex.com <mailto:lauren at vortex.com>>
> Date: Friday, August 21, 2015
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] Boston Public Broadcaster WGBH Files Bogus DMCA Notice On Public Domain Video Uploaded By Carl Malamud
> To: nnsquad at nnsquad.org <mailto:nnsquad at nnsquad.org>
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> Boston Public Broadcaster WGBH Files Bogus DMCA Notice On Public Domain Video Uploaded By Carl Malamud
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> https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150821/16573132031/boston-public-broadcaster-wgbh-files-bogus-dmca-notice-public-domain-video-uploaded-carl-malamud.shtml <http://postlink.www.listbox.com/1940516/2546110bd8acc7eba2265dd0aa6667a9/126368/2b613309?uri=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGVjaGRpcnQuY29tL2FydGljbGVzLzIwMTUwODIxLzE2NTczMTMyMDMxL2Jvc3Rvbi1wdWJsaWMtYnJvYWRjYXN0ZXItd2diaC1maWxlcy1ib2d1cy1kbWNhLW5vdGljZS1wdWJsaWMtZG9tYWluLXZpZGVvLXVwbG9hZGVkLWNhcmwtbWFsYW11ZC5zaHRtbA>
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>         The latest is that he was alerted to the fact that
>         YouTube had taken down a video that he had uploaded, due to a
>         copyright claim from WGBH, a public television station in
>         Boston. The video had nothing to do with WGBH at all. It's
>         called "Energy -- The American Experience" and was created by
>         the US Dept. of Energy in 1974 and is quite clearly in the
>         public domain as a government creation (and in case you're
>         doubting it, the federal government itself lists the video as
>         "cleared for TV."  WGBH, on the other hand, has nothing
>         whatsoever to do with that video.  It appears that some clueless
>         individual at WGBH went hunting for any videos having to do with
>         the PBS show WGBH produces, called American Experience and just
>         assumed that based on the title, the public domain video that
>         Malamud uploaded, was infringing. Because that's the level of
>         "investigation" that apparently the censorious folks at WGBH do
>         when looking to issue takedown notices.  Malamud reached out to
>         WGBH and apparently the folks there were most unhelpful. The
>         station's general counsel refused to apologize and simply told
>         Carl that since "American Experience" was "unusual" to be in the
>         title, it was okay for them to issue a bogus DMCA notice.
>         Another lawyer , Eric Brass, told Malamud that they wouldn't be
>         able to do anything about it until next week.
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> Next time WGBH has a pledge drive, keep this event in mind.
> 
> --Lauren--
> Lauren Weinstein (lauren at vortex.com <javascript:;>): http://www.vortex.com/lauren <http://postlink.www.listbox.com/1940517/987b410e38d8d3acf9d5e3cfa4a1d8b5/126368/2b613309?uri=aHR0cDovL3d3dy52b3J0ZXguY29tL2xhdXJlbg>

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