Friday, October 01, 2010

Cease and desist - from doing what?

"Blogger has been notified, according to the terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), that certain content in your blog is alleged to infringe upon the copyrights of others. As a result, we have reset the post(s) to 'draft' status. (If we did not do so, we would be subject to a claim of copyright infringement, regardless of its merits. The URL(s) of the allegedly infringing post(s) may be found at the end of this message.) This means your post - and any images, links or other content - is not gone. You may edit the post to remove the offending content and republish, at which point the post in question will be visible to your readers again."

The opening paragraph of a cheery message that lay in wait for me in my inbox earlier this week. The allegedly offending post? This one. The only reason it could possibly be suspect in Big Brother's eyes was a link to the video for M83's 'We Own The Sky' - but as that video is still freely available to watch on YouTube, I can't understand the problem.

The link's been removed so the post would reappear on the site, but if anyone can enlighten me as to how I've supposedly breached the rules then I'd be glad to know...

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