[LINK] Doctorow Makes Critical Attack - DMCA

[Roger Clarke]

Fox Shuts Down Cory Doctorow's Homeland Book In Overzealous DMCA takedown
JOHN BIGGS
Techcrunch
http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/21/fox-shuts-down-cory-doctorows-homeland-book-in-overzealous-dmca-shutdown/

TorrentFreak is reporting that links to Cory Doctorow's book, 
Homeland, are being shut down after a DMCA request by Fox. Why is 
Cory's Creative Commons licensed book that is available for free 
being attacked? It kind of sounds like it could be a copy of 
Homeland, the TV series, so they shut it down.

Homeland is available on multiple sites, including Doctorow's own, 
and is also available on some torrent sites. The takedown notice 
names a number of Fox's own properties, including Homeland, as well 
as ripped copies of Hitchcock, Life Of Pi, and It's Always Sunny In 
Philadelpia.

Apparently Cory himself replied to the DMCA takedown, saying to 
TorrentFreak: "I think you can safely say I'm incandescent with rage. 
BRING ME THE SEVERED HEAD OF RUPERT MURDOCH!"

Sadly, even Cory's own publisher, Tor, is sending DMCA takedowns for 
his book, Rapture Of The Nerds. It's also available for free but is 
popping up on torrent sites.

Obviously both of these instances are cases of an overzealous robot 
hunting down potentially infringing content. However, given 
Doctorow's tendency towards copyfighting, it's a bit funny that his 
CC-licensed books are being so zealously attacked.


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