I republished a 3 month old article about Richard Stallman on my blog few days back. I got its link from techrights.org rss feed. Within 2 days I got DMCA takedown notice from the interviewer Robert Douglass.
As mentioned in Why page, my blog is a nonprofit blog. Its purpose is to republish important non-fiction article to get more attention to those issues described in those. I does this with giving credit to its author and giving the original link, so that interested readers can go to original author and his site.
I never publish anything immediately, I wait for 2-4 months and then publishes. I does this because in this information overloaded era news become obsolete and ignored within hours. By republishing it the author get more reader and may be restarts the old discussion at least some places.
URLs never stay same. Thats why I am keeping complete content copy in my site as a backup.
By doing this what I intended is spreading his words. Its funny that the content I copied is an article about Richard Stallman who created the whole COPYLEFT concept. People like Richard Stallman should never cooperate with people like Robert Douglass.
If had any issue he could directly mail me, i will remove the content. Instead he raised DMCA takedown request destroying my status. Because of that wordpress.com is threatening permanent suspension of my account. I have more than 10 years of association with wordpress.com.
Now wordpress.com is saying, “Please note that republishing the material yourself, without permission from the copyright holder (even after you have submitted a counter notice) will result in the permanent suspension of your WordPress.com site and/or account.”
Why permanent suspension? If there is a conflict then it has to be resolved and no solution found then can do permanent suspension. But this is not fair. Wordpress.com please correct this practice.
I still believe that republishing is a good thing to get more readership for the original content.
Regards,
Jagadees.