My friend Laura Quilter, a librarian and counsel at the Brennan Project on Free Expression at NYU, wants to talk to ISPs and ASPs who have received cease and desist letters or DMCA takedown notices:
I’m currently doing a fair use/copyright research project on the impact of the DMCA and cease and desist letters on ISPs and hosting services. I’m trying to get a good variety of hosts, and particularly small and independent hosts, to understand their concerns and issues, and their experiences, if any, with these processes. We then plan to write a short report discussing the experiences of ISPs and educational institutions with the process, and describing any policies that seem particularly innovative or helpful. Ultimately, then, we hope to use that report as the foundation for developing additional materials, best practices, model policies, and the like, that minimize their liability and burdens, while balancing their members’ privacy and speech rights with third party proprietary rights.
If you’re a web host, you’ve gotten a takedown notice, and would like to talk with Laura about your experience, you can contact her through the Free Expression Project’s website.
