An artist who takes photos of miniature people on and near food has sued Twitter for copyright infringement.
Convincing large websites like Facebook and Google to nuke copyrighted content off their servers is pretty easy these days. Because of the "safe harbor" protections in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), websites are protected from liability for the actions of their users if they comply with requests from copyright owners to delete improperly distributed works. In practice, this means that copyright owners can get the action they want within a day or two. Even websites that are accused of infringing copyright by design—like Megaupload—have made sure to comply with the DMCA to gain that safe harbor.
But Twitter is being accused of ignoring a series of DMCA takedown requests lodged by an artist named Christopher Boffoli, who sued Twitter yesterday alleging copyright infringement. Boffoli is a full-time artist from Seattle who created the popular "Disparity Series," consisting of photographs featuring miniature figures in funny poses on various types of food. Since his photographs went viral last year, he has spent quite a bit of his time working the DMCA circuit, sending takedown requests to individuals, and sites like Facebook, Pinterest, and Google. Even some of his draft images were stolen off a server and distributed without his consent.
In most cases, infringing uses of his artwork are taken down from major websites within 24 hours. "Pinterest, Facebook, Google, those companies make it very easy to send a DMCA takedown and they respond very quickly," Boffoli told Ars. He has also contacted individuals and websites in countries like Turkey, Russia, and China. While some angry responses are inevitable, most people do comply with his takedown requests, he said.
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