DMCA

So yesterday morning I wake up to an e-mail about a post I did at MyCrimeSpace a while ago…

This is to inform you that I believe your site is in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, by quoting the majority of our copyrighted article on your site.

The page I am referring to is at: www.mycrimespace.com/tag/jeffrey-scott-bagnall

It contains six paragraphs lifted directly from our story, which was nine paragraphs in length. This goes beyond Fair Use.

Our original article is at: www.thedenverchannel.com/news/11191323/detail.html?subid=22100484&qs=1;bp=t which clearly has a copyright notice at the bottom.

I believe the information above is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, I state that I am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Wayne Harrison
Senior News Editor
TheDenverChannel.com

The story was about an alleged Boulder, Colorado craigslist pimp who was also in possession of child porn by the name of Jeffrey Scott Bagnall.

Now I did all the polite things. I linked to the original article. I blockquoted all the quotes that I thought were germane to the point I was making. Added some content that was definitely my own. I never claimed ownership of the material. But no, some pencil pusher has to DMCA me. I removed the post from MCS only because I didn’t want to drag b5media into it. I even thought about reposting the article in full here but I decided that I’ll be the slightly bigger man.

What this tool doesn’t realize is that blogs and online media have a symbiotic relationship. Media provides bloggers with the news while bloggers provide more readers to the media websites by linking back to them. It seems that some standard media outlets still don’t get it.

I know one thing that isn’t covered under the DMCA. I can say Wayne Harrison is a tool all I want. That and the “Denver Channel” sucks ass. DMCA that, assclown.