1. Notice and Takedown in Everyday Practice
- Author:
- Jennifer M. Urban, Joe Karaganis, and Brianna L. Schofield
- Publication Date:
- 03-2017
- Content Type:
- Research Paper
- Institution:
- American Assembly at Columbia University
- Abstract:
- It has been nearly twenty years since section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act established the so-called notice and takedown process. Despite its importance to copyright holders, online service providers, and Internet speakers, very little empirical research has been done on how effective section 512 is for addressing copyright infringement, spurring online service provider development, or providing due process for notice targets. This report includes three studies that draw back the curtain on notice and takedown: 1. using detailed surveys and interviews with more than three dozen respondents, the first study gathers information on how online service providers and rightsholders experience and practice notice and takedown on a day-to-day basis; 2. the second study examines a random sample from over 100 million notices generated during a six-month period to see who is sending notices, why, and whether they are valid takedown requests; and 3. the third study looks specifically at a subset of those notices that were sent to Google Image Search.
- Topic:
- Intellectual Property/Copyright and Information Age
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus