Copies Of Mueller Report Taken Down Because Of ... Copyright Infringement?

For those pushing for mandatory copyright filtering, here’s yet another
cautionary tale: copies of the (redacted) Mueller Report were taken
down from PDF-hosting site Scribd, even though it is in the public
domain. It seems clear this was an inadvertent result of automatic
filtering policies; one of the many big-name publishers who had put out
for-sale copies of the report had used automated processes to pass the
information to Scribd, and these processes had blocked everybody’s
attempts to upload copies of the report, even though it didn’t own the
copyright.

<https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190420/23233942052/scribds-takedown-public-domain-mueller-report-is-preview-eus-future-under-copyright-directive.shtml>
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