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Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@mastodon.technology)'s status on Monday, 30-Nov-2020 22:33:55 UTC Software Freedom Conservancy

We launched a public drafting process for the DMCA Cooperation Pledge — wherein copyright holders promise to wait 30 days before issuing DMCA takedowns against legitimate FOSS projects (ala GPLv3§8¶3). All policy wonks welcome to our transparent process! https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/nov/30/dmca-pledge/
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1. Public Drafting Process for the DMCA Cooperation Pledge
  
  In my blog post two weeks ago, I proposed — in light of increased DMCA takedowns against FOSS projects (and relatedly, increased enforcement of 17USC§1201) — that we ask for-profit copyright holders to agree to a pledge similar to GPLv3§8¶3. Simply put, proprietary copyright holders should be equally as reasonable as GPL copyright holders are and give FOSS projects 30 days to negotiate and discuss copyright infringement allegations before triggering a de-facto injuction with the DMCA.
- Adonay Felipe Nogueira repeated this.

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