http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/04/dmca-abuse-extends-to-twitter-posts.ars

Apparently, YouTube isn’t the only one who has been receiving notifications for the removal of content.   Someone posted a tweet that linked to a blog site where one could then follow more links to leaked songs from the music artist “The National.”  An anonymous person requested that the tweet be removed because it provided for infringing content.  But was Twitter the one that should have been targeted.  The tweet has been removed, but the blog containing the actual links remained.

I’m not familiar with Twitter’s terms and conditions as well as proper protocol for bloggers, but just how far can DMC go here?  How does someone go about “reporting” (and to whom?) infringing tweets made in 140 characters or less?  This is just baffling to me at how strict people are becoming and how fast information can be found and penalized.  The request to take down the twitter leak was most likely made by someone from The National’s record label, but what about the blog post….apparently the blogger discussed the leaked album and could possibly argue fair use, even though I’m not sure how that would apply there because you can’t argue fair use if you use work in its entirety.  Fair use seems to be thrown around a whole lot.

One of the comments on this article said,  ”I wonder how long it’ll be before I get a DMCA takedown notice for the portion of my brain holding the memory of this article.”  Funny, but because of the constant crack-down on information in a free internet, it seems we are not too far from it.

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