Kazaa used DMCA to threaten Google over copyright Options

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THE ELECTRONIC Frontier Foundation (EFF), in cooperation with others, is compiling an interesting record of demands made under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the various cease and desist notices Web sites are receiving.

One of the more interesting cease and desist notices at the Chilling Effects web site is a letter from Sharman Networks' lawyers, Stubbs Alterton and Markiles, which says search results at Google show "unauthorized copies" of the KMD (Kazaa Media Desktop). The lawyers ask Google to immediately remove or disable all access to the infringing material. The requests, nay demands, are made under Sections 512©(3) and 512(d)(3), of the DMCA, say Sharman's pleaders.

Is the irony of this lost on Sharman, which owns Kazaa? We think we should be told. There are other recent cease and desists included on the web site against Google, as well as instructions for building your own DMCA Counter Notice, and advice about copyright, defamation, fan fiction, linking, patents, piracy or copyright infringement, and protest/parody/criticism sites. Here.

Chilling Effects is a joint project of the EFF, Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, and University of Maine law school clinics.

Source: The inquirer