Re: High levels of DMCA notifications

["Michael J. Wheeler" <mwheeler () PITTSTATE EDU>]

Slightly off-topic:

Awhile ago, we were receiving DMCA notices to a very outdated address. The
address wasn't even registered with copyright.gov; I believe they got it
from our domain registration.

Our legal counsel advised us to trash them.

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Michael J. Wheeler
Assistant Director, Systems and Networking
Pittsburg State University
Phone:  620-235-4610
E-mail: mwheeler () pittstate edu

On 12/22/2009 1:02 PM, Roger Safian wrote:
> At 01:00 PM 12/22/2009, Bob Bayn put fingers to keyboard and wrote:
> > Yup, I'm processing way more DMCA notifiations than every before, too.
> >
> > On a related note, we had never received a notofication from the Frank Zappa
> > Family Trust before, but got our first one last week.  But it wasn't a takedown
> > notice, it was a presettlement notice.  It was also not sent to our registered
> > DMCA agent address.
> >
> > Anybody else ever dealth with the Zappas?
>
> We got one a couple of weeks ago.  We decided to handle it like
> we would any other pre-settlement letter.  We send them to the
> student so they can make their own decision on how they want
> to proceed.