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Re:Qualcomm issues DMCA takedowns for 116 GitHub repositorie... by paulgb on Thursday July 03, 2014 @04:25PM (#7985530)
You can claim damages against a false takedown, it's just really hard. The only notable case I know of is OPG v. Diebold http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPG_v._Diebold
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Re:Qualcomm issues DMCA takedowns for 116 GitHub repositorie... by cowbell on Thursday July 03, 2014 @04:56PM (#7985754)
I wasn't aware of that case. Thanks. I found sec 512(f) here:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512#f

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