The EU is currently conducting a series of meetings and dialogue between various stakeholders regarding the national implementations of Article 17, one of the new pieces of EU Copyright law.
Art. 17 addresses "Use of protected content by online content-sharing service providers" The Stakeholder Dialogue (art. 17(10)) is its 2nd phase (3d and 4th meetings): fact-finding about specific practices & tools.
Lumen, as an aggregator of copyright takedown notices,was invited to give a short presentation on December 16th, 2019, addressing the project's perspective and experience, along with commentary on observed trends,and highlights of empirical research relying on Lumen data. Other presenters included Facebook, Seznam, Wattpad, Audible Magic, BEUC, GESAC, ICMP (Universal), EPC (Ardito project), FEP, Bertelsmann and Telefonica. A slightly longer written version of Lumen's remarks, including citations, is below. A PDF of the remarks can be found here, and the recording of the livestream of the day's events can be found here. Lumen's participation begins at approximately 4:00:00 into the recording. The President of Turkey Is Apparently Sending His Own Takedown Requests The staff of Lumen, a unique public resource at Harvard University collecting and studying millions of removal requests for online content, is thrilled to announce that the project has received a $1.5 million grant from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, to expand and improve its database and research efforts. William Cunningham, professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, received a copyright takedown notice from the American Psychological Association regarding posting his own work. He and colleagues have started a petition to change the way things are done. Lumen intends to remain a vibrant and valuable feature of the landscape with respect to research, journalism, and public awareness around takedown requests. We also believe that it is both possible and necessary for Lumen to grow and improve.
One obvious way in which to do that is to expand the number and type of notices that the database receives and the range of institutions from which we receive them.
To that end, Lumen is announcing today some small but significant changes that will affect the amount of information within a notice that will be visible to a user of the Lumen site, unless that user is logged in.
Algorithmic Copyright Management: Background Audio, False Positives and De facto Censorship
False positives from algorithmic copyright monitoring by online platforms can lead to unforeseen consequences, and might start to happen on purpose.
Lumen Hosts Virtual Workshop: “Best Practices for Transparency and Research In Notice and Takedown”
Last week, the Lumen team was privileged to host a virtual workshop on the topic of best practices for transparency and research in notice and takedown
Lumen Adds New Notice Category - "Counterfeit" - To the Database
Lumen annoucnes new notice category - Counterfeit
Pandemic Misinformation Campaign Comes to Lumen
Lumen Presents Comments to the Third Meeting of the Stakeholder Dialogue on Art. 17 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market in Brussels
Turkish Government Gets Personal with Takedowns
Illuminating the Flows – and Redactions – of Content Online Arcadia to support expansion of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center Lumen Database
American Psychological Association Sends Takedown Notice to Canadian Academic Regarding Posting of his Own Article
Lumen Announces New Features of the Database
