Google’s New Policy On DMCA Censorship From Scientology Xenu.net Flap.

The Church
of Scientology has used the DMCA
[Google] in attempt to prohibit the Google search engine results from linking
to Xenu.net which church lawyers claim includes
copyrighted material that exceeds fair use.

Google\’s
new policy is to provide ChillingEffects.org
a copy of the complaint that includes the complete URL of the \’offending\’
link.  This is reproduced as a text citation.

When a search
query would have returned an \’offending\’ link, Google links to the copy
of the complaint at ChillingEffects.org.

NYTimes
uses \”helatrobus\”
[Google] as an example.  At the bottom of the Google return is the
statement: \”In response to a complaint we received under the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act
, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page.
If you wish, you may read
the DMCA complaint
for these removed results.
\”

\”The result,\”
suggests NYTimes journalist David F. Gallagher, \”is that a complaint could
end up drawing more attention to the very pages it is trying to block.\”

-20020422 \”Google
Runs Into Copyright Dispute.
\” -By David F. Gallagher  –NYTimes

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Hermit :-X

The Church
of Scientology has used the DMCA
[Google] in attempt to prohibit the Google search engine results from linking
to Xenu.net which church lawyers claim includes
copyrighted material that exceeds fair use.

Google\’s
new policy is to provide ChillingEffects.org
a copy of the complaint that includes the complete URL of the \’offending\’
link.  This is reproduced as a text citation.

When a search
query would have returned an \’offending\’ link, Google links to the copy
of the complaint at ChillingEffects.org.

NYTimes
uses \”helatrobus\”
[Google] as an example.  At the bottom of the Google return is the
statement: \”In response to a complaint we received under the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act
, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page.
If you wish, you may read
the DMCA complaint
for these removed results.
\”

\”The result,\”
suggests NYTimes journalist David F. Gallagher, \”is that a complaint could
end up drawing more attention to the very pages it is trying to block.\”

-20020422 \”Google
Runs Into Copyright Dispute.
\” -By David F. Gallagher  –NYTimes

LISNews
keywords:  
censor*
/ DMCA
/
free_speech
/
google
/
law
legal
/ linking

Hermit :-X
20020422 \”Google Runs Into Copyright Dispute.\” 
-By David F. Gallagher  –NYTimes
via  –Moreover 

The NYTimes / Moreover link was causing the LISNews
server problems.  The \’text\’ link is below, \’cut\’ and \’paste\’ it and
it should work.

 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/22/technology/ebusiness/22NECO.html?ex=1020139200&en=0a79be3614ca6bf6&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVER