‘Microsoft Sends DMCA Requests to the BBC, Wikipedia and More’ – ‘Mashable’

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Microsoft Sends DMCA Requests to the BBC, Wikipedia and More”.

Mike Epstein says, “A recent rash of Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notices from Microsoft ask Google to de-list a series of popular, most-likely non-infringing sites, including TechCrunch, The Huffington Post, BBC.com andWikipedia.

It seems like the machine can’t tell the difference between something used with permission or illegally. Based on the request, it seems that many of the sites were flagged because of references to the Windows 8 beta, which most of the sites in question would have been covering with not Microsoft’s permission, but with their cooperation”.

Microsoft Sends DMCA Requests to the BBC, Wikipedia and More

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