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Bradley M. Kuhn

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.

# Public Drafting Process for the DMCA Cooperation Pledge

This pledge was
[originally proposed by bkuhn](https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/nov/13/widevine-dmca-takedown/)
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&sect;8&para;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](CC0-1.0.txt).