Tumblr Users in a Panic Over DMCA Notices
There may be a bit of confusion among users about how the take-down process works, but Tumblr has a clear policy regarding copyrighted content. Violators beware.
Content ownership and copyright have become a defining conflicts on the internet. Many sites like Tumblr, Imgur, and 9gag are almost entirely predicated on the recycling, or outright theft of content. A series of recent DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown notices on Tumblr, and an accompanying conspiracy theory, have thrown the site’s users into a panic.
There have been several posts circulating around Tumblr since the beginning of February, of the one of which claims that users who post copyrighted music content will have their blogs deleted without warning.
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