Friday, October 31, 2008

DMCA Is Killing Musician Blogger?

One of our friend from Unpopular Radio had been received message from Google regarding that his blog may have been suspected to violate the DMCA policy, which is from my point of view, only affect on U.S artist right? But the blog just giving the playlist of local artist here in Malaysia, and some from Singapore and Indonesia. Or let just say they only play indie bands from around the region. What could possibly go wrong?

This is what they sent to them:

Blogger has been notified, according to the terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), that certain content in your blog infringes upon the copyrights of others. The URL(s) of the allegedly infringing post(s) may be found at the end of this message.

The notice that we received, with any personally identifying information removed, will be posted online by a service called Chilling Effects at http://www.chillingeffects.org. We do this in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Please note that it may take Chilling Effects up to several weeks to post the notice online at the link provided.

The DMCA is a United States copyright law that provides guidelines for online service provider liability in case of copyright infringement. We are in the process of removing from our servers the links that allegedly infringe upon the copyrights of others. If we did not do so, we would be subject to a claim of copyright infringement, regardless of its merits. See http://www.educause.edu/Browse/645?PARENT_ID=254 for more information about the DMCA, and see http://www.google.com/dmca.html for the process that Blogger requires in order to make a DMCA complaint.

Blogger can reinstate these posts upon receipt of a counter notification pursuant to sections 512(g)(2) and 3) of the DMCA. For more information about the requirements of a counter notification and a link to a sample counter notification, see http://www.google.com/dmca.html#counter.

Please note that repeated violations to our Terms of Service may result in further remedial action taken against your Blogger account. If you have legal questions about this notification, you should retain your own legal counsel. If you have any other questions about this notification, please let us know.

Sincerely,

The Blogger Team


Yet another dirty move by DMCA, what say you guys? Is it time for us all to moving from blogger? I'm just new here, but when i read this blogpost i couldn't imagine what could happen to all indie musician bloggers that DMCA themselves didn't know about them? I think this is not fair at all damnit!

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