Copyright Office Calls for Changes to Whack-a-Mole Takedowns (1)

The U.S. Copyright Office offered recommendations to Congress for updating copyright law to clarify online publishers’ responsibilities and takedown processes for infringing materials posted by their users.

The office said in a new report that while it’s not seeking any wholesale changes to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the law could be fine-tuned. It proposed requiring platforms like Twitter Inc., Facebook Inc. and YouTube to provide written, public policies for terminating services of repeat infringers rather than just internal policies. Congress could also clarify when a platform’s knowledge or willful blindness of infringement removes protections from liability unless they ...