Copyright law on the digital frontier

Google search now gets 2.5 million copyright removal requests a week, up from 250,000 in May
By Adi Robertson, theverge.com

Use of Google’s take­down tool for search results has grown ten­fold in the past six months, the com­pa­ny reports. When it start­ed pub­licly post­ing take­down notices in late May, around 250,000 requests a week went through the sys­tem — which…

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