Dealing With a Copyright Takedown Request?

Posted by kdawson on Monday March 23, 2009 @04:01PM from the define-fair-use-and-give-two-examples dept.

George Maschke writes "I recently received a takedown notice from a corporate lawyer demanding that I remove a post on my Web site's message board. It purportedly lists the first 75 of 567 questions on the MMPI-2 paper-and-pencil psychological test. It seems to me that such posting of a limited amount copyrighted material for discussion purposes on a public-interest, non-profit Web site falls within the scope of the fair use exemption of US copyright law. I have thus declined to remove the post. I believe that the corporation in question is seeking to chill public discussion of its test, which applicants for employment with many governmental agencies are required to complete. I would be interested in this community's thoughts on the matter."

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Re:Is this test legal in the US...? by T-Bone-T · 2009-03-23 22:48 · Score: 0, Redundant

Some of us have been lucky enough to find the right drug, and have happy productive lives, and don't kill people very often at all.
You just kill people occasionally?