WordPress is seeking damages for false copyright takedown

The company behind the weblogtool WordPress, a blogging platforms manages, wants $ 10,000 damages from a group that falsely requested a blog post offline. The group did so on the basis of the U.s. copyright law.

The now defunct group Straight Pride UK, who believed that gay rights too much attention, let on the basis of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act a article of a novice journalist offline pick up under the guise of copyright infringement. In practice, it was request a attempt to bring negative publicity to censor, writes the journalist himself.

On the basis of the DMCA are intermediaries, like search engines, blogplatforms and uploadsites protected from legal problems, provided they are copyright-protected material when a DMCA request is filed. That normally happens automatically, due to the large numbers of DMCA requests that are submitted.

Initially brought Automattic, the company behind WordPress, the blog post also offline, but the company has decided to not take it. In the court demanding the company pay compensation of 10,000 dollars of the group, as well as nearly $ 15,000 in lawyer’s fees, writes TorrentFreak.

Straight Pride UK claimed that the text was published copyrighted quotes of the organisation previously, but Automattic argues that it is a press release went out, that is intended to be published. According to the company has Straight Pride WordPress forced legal content removal, which has led to reputation damage.

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