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A pledge for copyright holders to take wherein they promise not to use DMCA takedown and similar provisions for at least 30 days, ala the GPLv3§8¶3

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Bradley M. Kuhn	3f5d95c7188a	3 years ago	Major redraft after consideration and first public posting. Major redraft after consideration and first public posting. After publishing, two things came to mind. First, we must assure that the FOSS project is acting in good faith to curtail bad actors from, say, slapping a copy of the GPL on a Hollywood film and calling it a FOSS project. Second, it's important to mention circumvention techniques explicitly to make it abundantly clear we're concerned about any §1201 enforcement — be they takedown related or not. main
Bradley M. Kuhn	c7ccc587358e	3 years ago	Add first draft of the pledge, as initially proposed. Add first draft of the pledge, as initially proposed. This version of the pledge was proposed in: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/nov/13/widevine-dmca-takedown/ in a blog post I wrote entitled: “A Modest Proposal In The New Age of DMCA Takedown Aggression”
Bradley M. Kuhn	18c246792229	3 years ago	Create README.md explaining briefly what this project is. Create README.md explaining briefly what this project is. Signed-off-by: Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn@sfconservancy.org>
Bradley M. Kuhn	202bfc334438	3 years ago	Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0), Public Domain Dedication, Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0), Public Domain Dedication, as downloaded from: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.txt Signed-off-by: Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn@sfconservancy.org>

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Public Drafting Process for the DMCA Cooperation Pledge

This pledge was originally proposed by bkuhn in light of increased DMCA takedowns against FOSS projects (and relatedly, increased enforcement of USC§1201) in October and November 2020. The goal is to draft a pledge that for-profit copyright holders can take wherein they agree to wait 30 days to issue DMCA takedowns against legitimate FOSS projects (ala GPLv3§8¶3). Simply put, proprietary copyright holders should be equally reasonable as GPL copyright holders are and give FOSS projects 30 days to negotiate and discuss copyright infringement allegations before getting an de-facto injunction with the DMCA.

The license of all documents in this repository is CC0v1.0.