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jeremysmyth on March 20, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: GoPro Uses DMCA to Take Down Article Comparing Its...

That logic might be acceptable if the DMCA takedown mentioned the images. It doesn't. It specifically references the trademarks "GoPro" and "Hero".

Their "clarification" isn't.

yasth on March 20, 2013 [–]

It should be noted that there is no such thing as a DMCA takedown for trademark infringements.

http://chillingeffects.org/dmca512/faq.cgi#QID569

So yeah pretty much nothing holds up.

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