[governance] FW: [Dewayne-Net] Google: Copyright removal requests spike to 2.5 million per week

[michael gurstein]

This seems to be of some significance... 

A few questions:
	1. does this mean that Google is now a (perhaps ``the``) global
policeman for the copyright industry?
	2. does this not make Google a hugely significant (if apparently
reluctant) ``private regulator``/ intervener in Internet ``freedom`` (with
very heavy ``hands on the Internet``
	3.  who is in a position to regulate this regulator
	4. where there is a conflict between the copyright laws of one
country and those of another, which will prevail -- or do all such laws
prevail
	5. etc.

M
	
Google: Copyright removal requests spike to 2.5 million per week By Jennifer
Martinez
12/11/12
<http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/272349-google-copyright
-removal-requests-spiked-to-25-million-per-week>

Google announced Tuesday that the number of requests it receives each week
to remove links to allegedly infringing websites in its search results has
grown ten-fold over the past six months. 

The number of copyright removal requests sent to Google has risen to more
than 2.5 million per week from 250,000 in six months, Google Legal Director
Fred von Lohmann said in a company blog post. He said the number spiked
after it launched its copyright removals feature in May. 

"As policymakers evaluate how effective copyright laws are, they need to
consider the collateral impact copyright regulation has on the flow of
information online," von Lohmann writes. 

When asked about the spike in take-down requests, a Google spokesperson said
they believe some of the increase is from Google streamlining the process to
submit requests, and also due in part to copyright owners using more
sophisticated tools to identify piracy and send notices to Google.

Von Lohmann added that the search company will start releasing more granular
data about the number of Web links it removes from its search results due to
copyright removal requests. 

The search company will now disclose how many Web links to certain websites,
such as the Pirate Bay and isoHunt, it removed from its search results
because of take-down notices. It will also provide data for how many Web
links it removed for each copyright removal request, as well as the
percentage of Web links it decided not to remove from its search results. 

Von Lohmann said Google has removed 97.5 percent of all Web links included
in copyright removal requests. The company processes these requests within
six hours, on average, he said.

[snip]

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