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Letter to the Editor

May 5, 2015

LETTER: Article on blogging makes missteps

The author says, "[I]f a blogger receives a 'takedown notice,' the blogger can respond by taking down an image, limiting copyright damages to actual damages that can be proven." This is incorrect in several ways. By David L. Amkraut

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR COLUMN

The entertaining article "Professor confronts perils of blogging" (April 17) contains some serious errors.

The author states, "[I]f a blogger receives a [Digital Millennium Copyright Act] 'takedown notice,' the blogger can respond by taking down an image, limiting copyright damages to actual damages that can be proven."

This is incorrect in several ways. Wher...

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