Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Chilling Effects Clearing House

The Chilling Effects site contains a wealth of information pertaining to Internet rights and legal issues.

It maintains a database of requests for the removal of information from the Internet and other violations of copyright.


If Google receives a complaint filed under the DMCA or a copyright infraction claim it make take down the reference to that work in accordance with the "safe harbor" provision of the DMCA. This protects ISPs and network providers from liability if they take down material if they receive a complaint.

When such a "take-down" has been made an entry will be made in the ChillingEffects.org's database and you can search that for entries.

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