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Sunday Times Issues DMCA Takedown Notice To the Intercept Over Snowden Article

Posted by Soulskill on from the best-defense-is-a-hilariously-weak-offense dept.

An anonymous reader writes: On Sunday, British newspaper The Sunday Times published an article citing anonymous UK government sources claiming that the cache of documents taken by Edward Snowden was successfully decrypted by the Russians and Chinese. Shortly thereafter, Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept published scathing criticism of the article. In Greenwald's article, he included a photograph of the newspaper's front page, where the story was featured. Yesterday, The Intercept received a DMCA takedown notice from News Corp alleging that the photograph infringed upon their copyright. The Intercept is refusing to comply with the takedown demand.

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  1. Fair use case by ihtoit · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm pretty sure that reproducing a low resolution image of a front page headline for the purposes of commentary illustration counts as fair use? Am I wrong?

    Also, the DMCA does not I repeat NOT apply outside the borders of the United States of America territory. Ergo, a British newspaper owned by an AUSTRALIAN has no claim under the DMCA. Or am I wrong about that as well?

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  2. Re:Are all U.S. Laws enforced in the U.K.? by Desler · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I'm not confused by anything. You've clearly never read either the DMCA or any of the relevant WIPO treaties that it implements.

  3. BBC News does this all the time. by TangoCharlie · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The BBC news website, and App has a regular piece reporting what the papers are reporting, and shows photographs of the front pages of all the big UK papers. The review of 'tomorrow's papers is also a regular feature on one of the late news programmes broadcast on the BBC.

    The Times, yet again, demonstrates just how poor its journalism is, by trying to use the DMCA to remove any criticism of the paper.

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