Comments on: SFWA issues DMCA takedown notices http://www.yatterings.com/2007/08/31/sfwa-issues-dmca-takedown-notices/ Blogging about books, graphic novels, art, film, TV, genre and having fun... Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:06:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Iain http://www.yatterings.com/2007/08/31/sfwa-issues-dmca-takedown-notices/#comment-9452 Iain Mon, 03 Sep 2007 07:04:21 +0000 http://www.yatterings.com/2007/08/31/sfwa-issues-dmca-takedown-notices/#comment-9452 I certainly hope questions are asked and given that people like Charles Stross, Cory Doctorow and John Scalzi are members, I suspect very tough questions will be asked. I certainly hope questions are asked and given that people like Charles Stross, Cory Doctorow and John Scalzi are members, I suspect very tough questions will be asked.

]]> By: LarsG http://www.yatterings.com/2007/08/31/sfwa-issues-dmca-takedown-notices/#comment-9417 LarsG Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:35:47 +0000 http://www.yatterings.com/2007/08/31/sfwa-issues-dmca-takedown-notices/#comment-9417 When sending a DMCA take-down notice, one does so "under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed." If you send fraudulent DMCA-notices, you open yourself to liability (one example: Diebold, $125'000). If I were an SFWA member, I'd ask for a very good explanation of why their leaders are exposing the organization to liability like that. When sending a DMCA take-down notice, one does so “under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.”

If you send fraudulent DMCA-notices, you open yourself to liability (one example: Diebold, $125′000). If I were an SFWA member, I’d ask for a very good explanation of why their leaders are exposing the organization to liability like that.

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