Scribd Sued For Copyright Infringement September 21, 2009
The online document sharing service Scribd.com is being sued for copyright infringement by none other than Kiwi Camara, the lawyer who stepped in to defend Jammie Thomas at the last minute before her recent trial.
Mr. Camara makes several claims (that we will hope to go into at some later date), but the most interesting is that by trying to prevent copyright infringement, Scibd is violating copyright.
When Scribd gets a takedown notice, they add the allegedly infringing work to a database they keep. They check newly uploaded works against the database, and reject any documents that have previously reported to be infringing.
Veoh got around that problem by creating a hash of the video file, as opposed to making a copy of it.
If one thing is becoming clear, it is that the DMCA, or copyright in general may be in need of an overhaul to catch up to technology and social norms.
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