Namecheap, WordPress Headline EFF Report on Copyright, Trademark 'Bullies'
Namecheap and WordPress had the highest scores for protecting against copyright and trademark “bullies,” said an Electronic Frontier Foundation report released Monday. The report showed what "online service providers are doing to protect users from baseless copyright and trademark complaints,"…
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said an EFF news release. Thirteen Internet companies were scored on a five-star system with five corresponding categories, it said. Companies received a star for achieving each of the following: a complete Digital Millennium Copyright Act notice and takedown process; publicly documenting DMCA counter-notices; requiring a formal notice of a trademark complaint; having a procedure that allows users to contest trademark complaints; and releasing a transparency report on copyright and trademark complaints. Namecheap and WordPress were the only companies to receive five stars; Etsy, Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, Twitter and Vimeo each received four stars, said EFF. Tumblr was the only company that didn’t receive a star.