space battleship yamato and DMCA for dummies

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space battleship yamato and DMCA for dummies

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So a while back I wrote a goofy article about Space Battleship Yamato for the Let's Anime blog, a "for dummies" cheat sheet of less than serious facts about the show. The article sat quietly for a while and then last week I got an email from Google about it, informing me that there had been a DMCA filed against that blog post for copyright infringement.
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I was all like, whaaaaaat? The text is all my own writing and the images are fair use. So I filed a counter-claim and did a little poking around and it turns out "Remove Your Media LLC" is a hired-gun DMCA filing outfit that copyright holders and licencees hire to poke around the internets and file DMCA claims on their behalf. A bunch of anime bloggers had gotten DMCA notices from the same outfit on behalf of Viz, Crunchyroll, FUNimation, etc.

So a few days later, Blogger got back to me and informed me that my blog was NOT infringing and that I was free to take it out of the "draft" folder in which it had been placed, which I did, after a little editing and link fixing, and everyone can now enjoy it again.
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If you're interested in learning about Space Battleship Yamato For Dummies, the post is now here: http://letsanime.blogspot.ca/2009/12/sp ... mmies.html
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Glad that got sorted out!!
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I saw your posts about that on twitter....lol oh the joys of automated filing, huh? :roll: Glad they realized the mistake.
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