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Tech companies say Ninth Circuit decision allows for censorship via unreasonable copyright takedown notices

( September 15, 2016, 22:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Google, Twitter, and Tumblr filed a brief urging the US Supreme Court to review a decision from the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit finding that copyright owners must consider fair use before sending takedown notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The companies argue that the Ninth Circuit's view that a copyright holder only need a subjective good-faith belief that a given use is not authorized by law before sending a takedown notice incentivizes copyright owners to remain uninformed about the limits of their rights and results in free speech being unreasonably silenced.   See document below. ...

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