Comments on: Fox Censors Cory Doctorow’s “Homeland” Novel From Google

By: Jay Stephens

Jay Stephens — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:14:00 +0000

The situations are pretty different.

In the case of TOR, some department has been overzealous in protecting the rights of an author in their stable (most of their authors will have dead-tree editions under classic copyright that have been illegally scanned and uploaded, and TOR are doing the right thing in trying to protect those authors’ rights).

In the case of Fox, they own NOTHING related to his novel Homeland, and are censoring him (a 3rd party), and not incidentally preventing him from pursuing his legitimate and legal business as an online purveyor of CC-licensed novels, by indiscriminately spraying DMCA notices at anything on Google with Homeland in the URL.

By: Lindsay Stewart

Lindsay Stewart — Tue, 07 May 2013 19:53:00 +0000

If Tor had sent takedowns regarding another company’s links and to a strip access to a product over which they had no claim whatsoever, that would be a very different matter. To answer your earlier question, yes Tor’s actions were indeed stupid. They are certainly not above criticism for the things that they’ve done. Hence Cory approaching them about the matter, they promised to resolve it. If they have failed to do so, perhaps it is time he addressed the matter with them once more. None of that makes him a hypocrite. Regardless, they do have a contractual stake in protecting the work that they represent. When their own machinery takes down their own material that is a mistake. When another company orders a takedown on IP that they do not own and have no claim over, that is a gross abuse of the system, flawed as it is.

By: Copyright, Copyleft, Copyfraud e Copyfear #ltis 13 | Bloglillon

[...] Fox di Rubert Murdoch esige che Torrentfreaks sopprima i link per il download del romanzo breve Homeland di Cory Doctorow, che l’autore stesso ha pubblicato sotto una licenza Creative Commons che ne [...]

By: Apple, Bayer, United, Purdue: Intellectual Property | Kansas News Feed

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:23:25 +0000

[...] Although Cory Doctorow’s “Homeland” novel has no connection to a television series by a same name, News Corp. (NWSA)’s Twentieth Century Fox Film section has sent Google Inc. (GOOG), takedown notices for links to a book, a TorrentFreak anti- copyright news website reported. [...]

By: Cory Doctorow, Victim of Fox Copyright Legal Bullying, Should Take A Stand Against Copyright

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:12:21 +0000

[...] TorrentFreak first broke the news that Fox has been sending Google takedown notices for URLs like “http://tpb.piraten.lu/tag/Homeland-Doctorow” and “http://torrentreactor.net/torrents/6214335/Homeland-by-Cory-Doctorow.” Not only does Fox not own the copyright for these works, but because Doctorow published his novel under a Creative Commons license, distributing his work on BitTorrent is completely legal. This means that Fox’s carelessness may be causing legitimate content to be removed from search engine results. [...]

By: Arthur Burton

Arthur Burton — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 06:38:00 +0000

Go to Doctorow’s site, download it and send it to Fox.

By: 7th_Guest

7th_Guest — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:18:00 +0000

Or you can stop being a militant absolutist, realize there’s more shade and nuance to this world than just black-n-white dichotomies and that different entities performing similar acts but for different reasons can be treated differently exactly because of their motives. But nah, sweeping generalizations are fine too, I guess…

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By: Linkgebliebenes 17 « kult|prok

Linkgebliebenes 17 « kult|prok — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:55:14 +0000

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By: Kollateralschäden im Copyright-Krieg – Fox sperrt falsches „Homeland“ | BASIC thinking

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:15:18 +0000

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