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

[Michael Leibrandt]

...which means that we already have borders in cyberspace - a fact sometimes 
ignored in the IG discussion, including WCIT. The difference to the 
pre-Internet age is that these borders are not enforced by governments, but 
by private companies - something not everybody might see as an improvement. 
The interesting question is to what extent Google does make a content 
related distinction between (legally correct) requests coming from "good" or 
"bad" countries, because this would include political value judgements. For 
the user, it doesn't make that much of a difference if a non-democratic 
government directly controls Internet content, or if this government passes 
a law which results in blocking "illegal" content by Google.

Michael, Berlin

> [srs] Copyright law of any country depends on the country the content is
> hosted in, and the jurisdiction asserted by the terms of use contract
> between the customer and the company.  Additionally, any country at all 
> can
> send Google takedown requests based on content deemed illegal in their
> country.  If there is a conflict between that country's law and US law,
> Google has been known to simply block the content from being served in
> responses to IP addresses from that country.
>
> --srs
>
>
>


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