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WordPress has published a new transparency report which shows a decline in the number of DMCA takedown notices received. While volume is dropping after an all-time high in 2018, inaccurate claims remain prevalent. Roughly three-quarters of all takedown requests were rejected, with some being categorized as abusive.
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Automattic, the company behind the popular blogging platform WordPress.com, receives thousands of takedown requests from copyright holders.
For a number of years, the volume of notices continued to increase but that trend has slowly started to reverse.
This week, the company published its latest transparency report, revealing that it had processed 11,220 takedown notices during 2019. That is a significant drop compared to a year earlier when over 20,000 notices were handled.
Unlike other services, Automattic only reports the number of notices it receives for WordPress.com. Each of these notices can contain multiple URLs, in some cases even dozens.
The takedown notices are sent in by a variety of copyright holders. The most prolific sender was Image Protect, an anti-piracy service for photographers, followed by familiar names including the music groups IFPI and BPI.
Looking at the longer-term trend, we clearly see a decline in the number of takedowns requests, which reached an all-time high two years ago. The drop in numbers is in line with what other Internet services have noticed recently, including Google.
It is worth noting that not all takedown requests are blindly accepted, with Automattic keeping a close eye on errors. This results in a relatively high rejection rate. Of all notices, more than three quarters didn’t result in any content being removed.
The vast majority of the notices were rejected because they were ‘incomplete,’ meaning that some info was missing, and roughly 7% were classified as ‘abuse’.
“‘Abusive’ notices may be formally complete, but are directed at fair use of content, material that isn’t copyrightable, or content the complaining party misrepresents ownership of a copyright,” Automattic explains.
Since Automattic began counting complaints in 2014, the company has processed 75,837 DMCA takedown requests. More than two-thirds of these were rejected and for the remaining 33%, no content was removed.
Whether the drop in the number of received notices for WordPress.com will continue to decrease remains to be seen. Although a similar pattern emerges at other services as well, it’s certainly not universal. For example, Reddit reported the opposite just a few weeks ago, with the number of takedowns increasing 500% in just a year.
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Emoting through unwieldy prosthetic eyebrows were the least of the challenges.
Enlarge / Ethan Peck took on the iconic role of Spock for the second season of Star Trek: Discovery (credit: CBS All Access)
Star Trek: Discovery takes an admittedly leisurely approach to storytelling, particularly in S1, but that's frankly part of its appeal. It's very much a character-driven show, taking the time to explore complex emotions and relationships. As we wrote in our year-end roundup, "When Discovery shines, it's like a supernova against the night sky—and much of that light comes from the stellar cast." One of of those sources of light is actor Ethan Peck, who plays Spock on the series. Peck recently sat down with Ars Technica to talk about the challenge of stepping into some pretty big shoes to portray the canonical character.
(Some spoilers for first two seasons of Star Trek: Discovery below.)
Discovery is a prequel to the original Star Trek, set roughly 10 years before Captain James T. Kirk and his intrepid crew took over the USS Enterprise and boldly went where no man had gone before. It stars Sonequa Martin-Green as Michael Burnham, an orphaned human raised on the planet Vulcan by none other than Sarek (James Frain) and his human wife, Amanda Grayson (Mia Kirshner)—aka, Spock's parents, which makes her Spock's adoptive sister. (Certain purists might object that this violates Star Trek canon; Ars' own Kate Cox prefers to call it "sanctioned fanfic. There was undefined room around the edges to fill in, so they did.")
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