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They've taken names off, parts of addresses but left the URLs -- and the 'headline' says we're trying to 'delist our competitor.' Much more aggressive than the other cases listed: 'author of document wants google to remove alleged infringers.'
Question: are these documents public? I could hazard a guess & say the person we filed against gave it to them, but there is no 'counter complaint' as far as I know and the guy took our stories down.
It's also now the second google result for thief's website (it doesn't show up searching our name unless you put the two together), so I don't know if they did it what they're trying to prove...
Any ideas on what our rights are? It'd be pretty funny to file another DMCA against these people (does our letter to google belong to us?) though it's a coven of lawyers...
A copy of the notice will be sent to a third party who will make it available to the public.
[google.com...]
This third party is the watchdog site you're referring to.
does our letter to google belong to us?
I am almost certain that they do not receive copyright protection as court documents. And if they do, you can assume that an organization that is concerned and *reporting* on free speech issues will have significant fair use rights to such material.
You filed an action against someone. It should be a public record. If you do not want it to be public record, don't file it.
What struck me about the notice of our claim was the 'headline', in other words was not presented in neutral language eg 'widget.com files dmca against blah.com for alleged copyright violations' but that's just a question of details, electronic filing is more open to interpretation because the document is likely plugged into a module where they have to write a headline.
