Blog Claiming something about Copyright Reform eroding our rights. Wanting a fact check

As far as I can tell, the blog is 100% astro turf. They say copyright registration forces creators to give up rights, which is bull shit. If anything, it will protect the real owner’s rights much, much better because the government will have official knowledge of who owns what. So, say I make a song register it with the USCO, upload it to youtube, and it gets taken down with a DMCA C&D, I can prove without a doubt that I own it and try to convince youtube to ignore all further C&D requests. But if it’s not registered, at best youtube will just have to take my word for it, and probably would never put the song back up.

Because whiners and fraudulent copyright lawyer fucks are currently allowed to claim ownership of anything they want, consequence free, even for public domain works.

Repeal the DMCA now. Orphaned works belong in the public domain! Free Tibet! :stuck_out_tongue:

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