{"id":1163,"date":"2014-03-13T19:21:01","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T19:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cpip.gmu.edu\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2026-02-03T21:23:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:23:42","slug":"improving-the-dmcas-notice-and-take-down-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ualawip\/2014\/03\/13\/improving-the-dmcas-notice-and-take-down-system\/","title":{"rendered":"[Archived Post] Improving the DMCA&#8217;s Notice and Takedown System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In conjunction with today&#8217;s House Judiciary Committee hearing on the DMCA, CPIP Senior Scholar Prof. Mark Schultz\u00a0published a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.techpolicydaily.com\/technology\/time-revise-digital-millennium-copyright-act-antiquated-part-copyright-may-one-newest\/\">critique<\/a>\u00a0of the notice and takedown system this morning on AEI&#8217;s TechPolicyDaily Blog.<\/p>\n<p>In his critique,\u00a0Prof. Schultz\u00a0discusses\u00a0CPIP&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/cpip\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2013\/08\/Bruce-Boyden-The-Failure-of-the-DMCA-Notice-and-Takedown-System1.pdf\">policy brief<\/a>\u00a0by Prof. Bruce Boyden, which details the failures of the DMCA &#8211; despite the massive number of takedown notices sent, not a single day goes by when the infringing content is not readily available online. Prof. Schultz also\u00a0highlights the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/cpip\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2014\/03\/Testimony-of-Sean-M.-OConnor-March-13-2014.pdf\">written testimony<\/a>\u00a0of CPIP Fellow Prof. Sean O&#8217;Connor, a witness at today&#8217;s hearing, who proposes two simple, focused solutions &#8211; &#8220;notice and stay-down and codified &#8220;willful blindness&#8221; &#8211; to improve the notice and take-down process for all parties involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In conjunction with today&#8217;s House Judiciary Committee hearing on the DMCA, CPIP Senior Scholar Prof. Mark Schultz\u00a0published a\u00a0critique\u00a0of the notice and takedown system this morning on AEI&#8217;s TechPolicyDaily Blog. In his critique,\u00a0Prof. Schultz\u00a0discusses\u00a0CPIP&#8217;s\u00a0policy brief\u00a0by Prof. Bruce Boyden, which details the failures of the DMCA &#8211; despite the massive number of takedown notices sent, not a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3627,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,21,29,34,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright","category-copyright-licensing","category-high-tech-industry","category-internet","category-legislation","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ualawip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ualawip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ualawip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ualawip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3627"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ualawip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ualawip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15933,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ualawip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions\/15933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ualawip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ualawip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ualawip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}