RE: [dvd-discuss]DMCA and the Church Of Scientology

["Dean Sanchez" <DSanchez(at)fcci-group.com>]

I think that it is referring to the part of the DMCA that was added to indemnify ISPs from copyright infringement - the takedown notice.

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Hosgood [mailto:steve@caederus.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 5:26 AM
To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss]DMCA and the Church Of Scientology 


Michael Rolenz wrote:
>              KEY POINTS
> 
>                  Most popular and independent
>                  search engine is not infallable
>                  Digital Millennium Copyright Act
>                  being levered
>                  Anti Church of Scientology website
>                  blamed
> 

How on earth can the Scientologists argue a way to misuse the DMCA so
thoroughly as to get it into a case like this? There's surely no issue of
Google somehow "bypassing a TPM" protecting a copyright work of the
Scientologists is there?

This is a straightforward-looking trademark dispute if it's anything. The
only thing that seems vaguely "digital" about it is that it's a cyberspace
dispute rather than a realworld one.

Or is there more to it?

Whatever, the more sad-git misuses of the DMCA, the better. It will help
reduce the respect given to it - even by judges eventually.

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