Facebook does not disclose what party has filed copyright claims against its users. An appeals, or \u201ccounter notification\u201d process leaves the door open to potential litigation by the claimant if ownership of the given image can be produced. Under Facebook\u2019s policy the respondent has no other way of appeal other than and cannot determine who it could be facing in court.<\/p>\n
As RT reported<\/a>, earlier this week\u00a0fair use advocates were encouraged when a US appellate court in San Francisco ruled that a jury should decide in a case brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation against Universal Music Group on whether Universal adequately considered fair use prior to filing a DMCA complaint against a parent who posted a thirty second recording of their toddler dancing to Prince\u2019s 1984 hit, \u201cLet\u2019s Go Crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n On September 17 \u201cSandy Hook Hoax\u201d Fb page owner Tony Mead filed a \u201ccounter notification\u201d contesting the unknown party\u2019s alleged ownership of the photos.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Professor James F. Tracy <\/strong>is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at Florida Atlantic University. James Tracy\u2019s work on media history, politics and culture has appeared in a wide variety of academic journals, edited volumes, and alternative news and opinion outlets. James is editor of Union for Democratic Communication\u2019s Journal Democratic Communiqu\u00c3\u00a9 and a contributor to Project Censored\u2019s forthcoming publication Censored 2013: The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2011-2012. Additional writings and information are accessible at memoryholeblog.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Professor James F. Tracy (RINF) – A Digital Millenium Copyright Act infringement claim was filed on September 16 against the owner of the \u201cSandy Hook Hoax\u201d Facebook page concerning photographic images of Lenie Urbina\/Avielle Richman. Unsurprisingly, Facebook opted to take the claim at face value without investigation and remove the image, according to Tony Mead, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-184669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"image1-2\"](\"http:\/\/www.thesleuthjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/image1-2.png\")
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