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Copyright expert Nicholas Wells on the newest Google Bowling

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Photo credit: Wikipedia. NW: The DMCA was pretty controversial when it was passed in 1998. There were two biggest concerns that the DMCA tried to address. The DMCA prohibited interfering with DRM even when use of the underlying material might not otherwise violate copyright. How can a lawyer explain Google Bowling?

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Wikipedia has a good explanation of it ( [link] ). As far the legal aspect, all a trademark/copyright holder has to do is submit a DMCA request and Facebook has to review and take action on it. Notes app) from a copyrighted source that you don’t retain the license is in violation of Facebook’s TOS.