[The Next Web] Nearly a third of all DMCA takedown requests are ‘questionable’, says report

Researchers from Berkeley and Columbia have published a new study that claims more than 28 percent of all piracy takedown requests that Google receives are “questionable”. Such appeals either did not target the alleged infringing content correctly or raised concerns about the validity of the request, the report says. At present, the precise percentage of incorrectly placed requests represents a little over four percent of all notices Google receives. According to the researchers, the majority of the remaining 24 percent of questionable requests had other issues such as improper format, potential fair use or subject matter inappropriate for DMCA takedowns. Leaning on data Google has provided to the…

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