Sony VP Files Bogus DMCA Notice Because His Salary Is Listed on Wikileaks

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Until we start holding people accountable for filing false DMCA notices we will continue to see massive abuse of DMCA Takedown requests.

knowingly filing a false DMCA notice is perjury, and because the filer is a lawyer, the state bar can take care of his misconduct.

> knowingly filing a false DMCA notice is perjury

Not entirely true; one of the things that has been frequently criticized about the DMCA notice process is that the only part of the DMCA "takedown" notice that is under penalty of perjury is the statement "that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed." None of the rest of the material in the notice, notably including the identification of the allegedly infringing material or the statement of "good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law" is under penalty of perjury.

See 17 U.S.C. Sec. 512(c)(3)(A)

Found the State Bar of California website, found Yankelvits' membership profile (http://members.calbar.ca.gov/fal/Member/Detail/155676 who the hell uses a Yahoo email account any more), sent off a contact us form asking the bar to open an investigation into the member so that they can see if other fradulent DMCA notices have gone out.

I seriously hope those requests are reviewed by humans, so the person reviewing it could've got a good laugh.

Blogspam. This appears to be the original source: https://torrentfreak.com/sony-tries-censor-wikileaks-160709

Techdirts fairly well known for tracking stories such as this.

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