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Rep. [Judy Chu] asked whether a "key element" of Mr. [Van Lindberg]'s examples was "that the content owner decided when to share work for free?"
Mr. Lindberg had testified about receiving take-down notices for alleged copyright infringement on the websites it hosts. Among its hosting customers is a movie studio, he said. "I can't tell you the number of times we've gotten requests from the studio to take down their own website," he said, adding that Rackspace had also received a request from a jewelry company to take down the site of one of its own distributors. "This happens because takedown notices are generated by computers that don't understand" that some uses of copyrighted material are authorized or fall under a fair use exception.
Ms. [Danae Ringelmann] said that a competitor's imitation of the Indiegogo business model "forced us to continue to innovate." She also noted that there is a "tricorder" concept seeking funding on Indiegogo, which she compared to the Star Trek medical device to "scan and get your vitals."
Rep. Karen Bass (D., Calif.) similarly asked for advice for "small content owners whose work is infringed hundreds of thousands of times" on the Internet. Mr. Lindberg repeated his call for working "human to human, business to business. ... We don't want and don't support copyright infringement on our networks."