Comments on: A 27-Month Check-In on the Copyright Claims Board (CCB) (Guest Blog Post) https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2024/10/a-27-month-check-in-on-the-copyright-claims-board-ccb-guest-blog-post.htm Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Brandon Butler https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2024/10/a-27-month-check-in-on-the-copyright-claims-board-ccb-guest-blog-post.htm#comment-4320 Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:33:00 +0000 https://blog.ericgoldman.org/?p=26957#comment-4320 Katie's exactly right. Tyler assumes that there are valid claims in each of these cases and that "process" is keeping these valid claims from having proper consideration. In fact, part of the 'process' is substantive – winnowing out filings that don't state even a plausible claim. Claimants in this scenario are well-served by the CCB when their claims are kicked out early: they learn valuable information about their claim (it doesn't exist, or at least they haven't articulated it) and can move on with their lives. This is a much better outcome than letting bad claims linger on in the system, keeping claimants, defendants, and everyone else in suspense for an answer that could easily be given at the earliest stages of consideration. If we're going to have a CCB, then filtering out all these cranks as soon as possible in the process is probably the most salutary thing the board can do. Whether giving cranks an outlet for their angst is worth the substantial cost of setting up and running this apparatus is a whole other question.

]]> By: Katie Fortney https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2024/10/a-27-month-check-in-on-the-copyright-claims-board-ccb-guest-blog-post.htm#comment-4318 Fri, 25 Oct 2024 16:29:00 +0000 https://blog.ericgoldman.org/?p=26957#comment-4318 You wrote that "The Board staff is supposed to be helping claimants to navigate the procedure; but based on the evidence to date, it seems they aren’t doing enough to help most claimants." I see how you could get that impression if you're just looking at the numbers. Having read several complaints and several of the board's orders to amend, I suggest another possibility: many of the claims are meritless. Most claimants are self-represented. There are filers who believe they're owed some kind of redress when in fact their rights haven't been infringed; or copyright has nothing to do with their problem; or there might be a claim in there somewhere but no amount of help from the CCB is going to render it coherent.

I'm not reading the new claims these days, but I was collecting excerpts from them with a script for a while so I could skim them. You can do the same here if you like: https://bibliobaloney.github.io/old/infringementtable20231222.html I wouldn't say that all the claims dismissed during compliance review were beyond help, but a substantial number of them have been.

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