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| Chilling Effects Clearinghouse > DMCA Notices > Weather Reports > Further Developments In the Retraction Watch Takedown/Censorship Case | 
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|  Further Developments In the Retraction Watch Takedown/Censorship CaseAdam Holland, February 22, 2013 Abstract: Retraction Watch's Anil Potti posts are back up, but the situation remains very strange. We referenced the Retraction Watch ("RW") dust-up in an earlier Weather Report, but for those of you new to the story, here is a summary: Retraction Watch is a site devoted to studying, and making transparent, research misconduct. They had a series of posts focusing on the exploits of Anil Potti, a Duke University oncogenomics researcher who left Duke under a cloud of scandal. Retraction Watch's posts, in their entirety, were copied and published on an Indian website, which then issued DMCA takedown against the originals. In what is only good news, Retraction Watch has recently announced that all of the posts in question have been successfully restored. Also noteworthy is that Retraction Watch's blogger, Ivan Oransky, apparently used an automated counter-notice generator, indicating that the automation arms-race is percolating down to individual-level users, at least a little bit. However, whoever was behind the original copying and takedown looks to be still at it. In our view, this is simply further evidence that the process itself can become the point, or the focus of attention in a way that makes any claim over the underlying content almost irrelevant--surely not the intention of the DMCA's drafters.
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