Google has deleted six of the most popular Blogger-based music blogs on the web (including their entire archives) in response to Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) take-down notices. The deletions were performed without clear notice, and bloggers are insisting that they did not host any owned content without permission.
The sites shut down were using Google’s Blogger service; they included I Rock Cleveland, It’s a Rap, Living Ears, To Die By Your Side, Masala and Pop Tarts. Each site served to introduce music fans to new songs and genres they might not otherwise experience, usually from obscure and independent artists. So the question rises who exactly is trying to shut down independent artist and labels? The notion that the take-down notices were issued by mistake is most likely bogus. The illegal take down notices had to have been issued with the intent to hurt independent artist.
If the entity sending take down notices can not prove they actually represent the copyright owner of the work and in fact are attempting to lay claim to a work in which they have no claim, they are the ones who are guilty of copyright violation.
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