The EFF fights copyright overclaiming by means of public shaming

One of the problems of our legal system I’ve written about is the way its expense has conferred inordinate weight on sheer wealth. In copyright, this problem plays out in what is termed “copyright overclaiming” — the assertion of rights over content that is utterly misbegotten but not worth the expense of fighting. One means of fighting this abuse, I suppose, is public shaming, which is exactly what the Electronic Frontier Foundation is now doing with its “Takedown Hall of Shame,” a compilation of “[b]ogus copyright and trademark complaints have threatened all kinds of creative expression.”