At the end of 2015, the U.S. Copyright Office announced that it would take comments to determine the effectiveness of the safe harbor provisions in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. What all these comments say won’t be known until after the April 1 deadline, but it’s clear that the Copyright Office will hear some complaints that the DMCA doesn’t offer enough of a deterrent against abusive takedown notices.
One group that’s submitted comments is the Internet Archive, the nonprofit behind the Wayback Machine (a digital archive of Web pages taken down by owners). In a March 22 submission, the Internet Archive states that it receives “inaccurate, improper and/or incomplete notices” on a regular basis.
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