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Removing stolen blog content with a Takedown Notice

18 Comments Published February 8th, 2008 in Intellectual property, Internet law and blogs

You often read about blog authors who complain that some “scraper” has republished their blog content on a completely unaffiliated site without permission even when then blog owner has not released that content with an “open source” or so-called “copyleft” license. Can a blog owner easily stop such vandalism? Yes. Under United States Copyright [...]

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Alex T. Roshuk is a New York State attorney. He has two law degrees from McGill University, Faculty of Law, Montreal, Canada (B.C.L./LL.B., 1997) and has been practicing law in New York City since 1998 advising businesses, individuals and not-for-profit organizations in transactional and litigation related matters. He was the first legal adviser to the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (Wikipedia) from 2003 to 2005 assisting with the organization's tax exempt application to the IRS, trademark applications, and various copyright related issues. Prior to becoming a lawyer Mr. Roshuk worked in the entertainment industry as a film editor, radio announcer, television producer and director and as an administrator and/or director of numerous not-for-profit media arts organizations in the United States and Canada. He studied electrical engineering at Princeton University in the 1970s. He currently lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn.