[governance] Chilling Effects, The Website Powerful Companies Are Trying To Hide From You, Revealed

[Riaz K Tayob]

Business IS politics in the US, eh?


  Chilling Effects, The Website Powerful Companies Are Trying To Hide
   From You, Revealed
  <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/09/chilling-effects-website_n_3044464.html?utm_hp_ref=business>

*Quartz*  |  By Leo Mirani Posted: 04/09/2013 10:13 am EDT  |  Updated: 
04/09/2013 10:13 am EDT


*This story originally appeared 
<http://qz.com/72073/this-article-contains-a-link-that-some-powerful-companies-dont-want-you-to-see/> 
on Quartz <http://qz.com/>. *

First came the takedown notice. Then came the takedown notice for the 
takedown notice.

Not happy with making search engines such as Google stop showing links 
to websites that carry pirated content, several companies including 
Microsoft, Warner Bros, Sony Music, NBC and Fox have also been trying to 
scrub the evidence that they have done so.

Their target is Chilling Effects <http://www.chillingeffects.org/>, a 
website created as a joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation 
and several law schools. It was formed in 2001 as a reaction to 
America's Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which clamped down on online 
piracy while giving an escape clause to websites that link to pirated 
material unwittingly. Under section 512 of the DMCA 
<http://chillingeffects.org/dmca512/faq.cgi>, websites served with a 
"takedown notice" can avoid prosecution if they, well, take down links 
to any infringing material.

Google regularly (but not always) complies with notices and removes 
websites from its search index. It then publishes data about the notices 
it receives in its regularly updated transparency report 
<http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/>. It also 
passes on the notices 
<http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/faq/#chilling_effects> 
to Chilling Effects. Request-information pages in the online report 
generally link directly to the notice at Chilling Effects.

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