Movie Studios Want Google to Take Down Their Own Takedown Request
Found on TorrentFreak on Saturday, 06 April 2013
In a comical display of meta-censorship several copyright holders including 20th Century Fox and NBC Universal have sent Google takedown requests asking the search engine to take down links to takedown request they themselves sent. Google refused to comply with the movie studios requests and the “infringing” DMCA notices remain online. Meanwhile, the number of takedown notices received by Google is nearing 20 million per month.
No longer is Google merely asked to remove direct links to copyrighted material as the DMCA prescribes, but also links to links to links to copyrighted material.
So under the DMCA that complains about the previous DMCA links, this first one should be invalidated. After all that's what copyright owners want: file a DMCA to remove all traces. Taking this to the next logical step, this could mean that the previously removed links can appear online again because the DMCA that removed them just was invalidated by a DMCA.