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PK Criticizes CO Report for Ignoring DMCA Abuse

The Copyright Office’s recommendations on Digital Millennium Copyright Act Section 512 (see 2005210057) are “ill-considered” and improperly favor views of copyright holders, Public Knowledge Policy Counsel Meredith Rose said Friday. She criticized the CO for disregarding “ample evidence that the…

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DMCA is often abused by people looking to censor content they have no rights over.” The report properly concluded that Section 512 is unbalanced and needs to be remedied, Copyright Alliance CEO Keith Kupferschmid said Thursday.