Critics of DMCA takedowns flood Copyright Office with thousands of comments

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Critics of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act have flooded the U.S. Copyright Office with tens of thousands of comments complaining about a process that often forces websites to kill user-generated content when faced with a copyright complaint.

Before Thursday, the Copyright Office had received only about 80 public comments about potential changes to the DMCA’s notice-and-takedown provisions, with the comment period scheduled to close Monday.

But another 55,000 people had filed comments as of Monday morning after digital rights group Fight for the Future and YouTube channel ChannelAwesome launched a campaign late Thursday to encourage people to complain about “the many ways that the DMCA is abused to censor and take down legitimate content from the Internet, stifling innovation, cultural creation, and freedom of speech.”

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Critics of DMCA takedowns flood Copyright Office with thousands of comments
Source: Internet

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Critics of DMCA takedowns flood Copyright Office with thousands of comments

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