Glad to see this come to fruition. The Terms of Service team at WordPress.com have made our DMCA process public, to help others struggling with how to deal with the ubiquitous copyright law takedown process.
At Automattic, we are firm believers in the power of open source: the release of code (or other works) into the public domain to be used, modified, and shared freely.
One of the challenges faced by online service providers is how to implement an effective policy for dealing with the DMCA takedown process – especially in cases where the system is being abused. We strive to protect users’ freedom of speech, and would love to see others do the same. However, the possible scenarios and requirements can be confusing; the language intimidating… especially for websites run by individuals or small organisations.
As a result, we are pleased to announce that today we are open sourcing our DMCA process docs on GitHub – under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license.
Included in the release is our already publicly available pages for details on how to submit a DMCA takedown and counter notice:
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