{
  "id": 5397524,
  "title": "Court Rules Against Citizen Journalists in DMCA Takedown Case—EFF Will Appeal",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/court-rules-against-citizen-journalists-in-dmca-takedown-case-eff",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-03T19:11:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "EFF Deeplinks",
    "slug": "eff-deeplinks",
    "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/court-rules-against-citizen-journalists-dmca-takedown-case-eff-will-appeal"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A federal court in Massachusetts has ruled that copyright holders can issue online takedown notices based on a subjective belief of copyright infringement, even when that belief is unreasonable and self-serving. The case was brought by our client, Channel 781 News, after takedown notices temporarily shut down the citizen journalism group's YouTube channel. We think the court set the bar far too…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}