Android Marketplace Takedown Notices

A good chart from Chilling Effects about the 206 complaints filed by IP holders to get apps taken down from the Android app market in February 2011.

And some discussion about why some of these takedowns are more questionable than others.

Unique among the copyright complaints in its indirection, the RIAA filed three complaints naming dozens of apps that allegedly “facilitate the unauthorized streaming and downloading of popular sound recordings, the vast majority of which are owned or controlled by RIAA members.” Its complaints, complete with screenshots, asked for the removal of apps for ringtone creation and MP3 listening. This is an attenuated claim. RIAA isn’t alleging that Google, or even the apps, are direct infringers of member copyrights. Rather, it claims that because Google hosts apps (or in some cases, serves ads inside them) that enable end-users to make infringing copies of music, Google should be held responsible for the users’ infringing conduct — a sort of once-removed contributory or vicarious liability claim. Is there a law of contributory inducement, after Grokster?

via Chilling Effects – Takedown Complaints in the Android Marketplace

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