LawGeek: USC/Berkeley Report: over 30% of DMCA take-down notices are improper

November 22, 2005

USC/Berkeley Report: over 30% of DMCA take-down notices are improper

Jennifer Urban of USC's Intellectual Property Legal Clinic and Laura Quilter of UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall have released a summary report examining over 900 DMCA take-down notices collected from the Chilling Effects project. The report finds that nearly 1/3rd of all notices are improper and potentially illegal. The full report will be out in March 2006.

Link to summary report.
Link to USC press release.

November 22, 2005 in IP Rights and Wrongs | Permalink

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