Amnesty UK Issues DMCA Takedowns Against Activists Preserving Its Own Retracted Report
After capitulating to JK Rowling's legal threats, the organization filed copyright claims against a Harvard lawyer who shared the deleted anti-trans groups report.
What to know
- Amnesty International UK retracted reports on anti-trans groups after JK Rowling threatened to finance lawsuits against the organization.
- The organization then filed DMCA copyright takedown notices against a Harvard law instructor who preserved and shared the deleted reports, invoking US copyright law despite fair use protections.
- Caraballo argues the takedowns are legally unfounded and pledges to fight them in court; activists have already distributed the report via torrent to circumvent removal.
- The episode raises questions about weaponization of copyright law and whether organizations can suppress their own past work using legal mechanisms designed to protect intellectual property.
The dispute None apparent in the material; all voices criticize Amnesty UK or support Caraballo's position. · positions read across 14 posts and comments
Amnesty UK's actions represent a betrayal of its human rights mission and constitute weaponized censorship.
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“This is an organization that has gone to bat against murderous dictators, genocidal governance, and all kinds of the most evil, dangerous people in the world.”
Alejandra Caraballo · Erin in the Morning
The fair use defense is sound and Amnesty UK's copyright claims will not withstand legal scrutiny.
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“And it doesn't even apply in this case, Caraballo said; sharing the document in its entirety for commentary and critique is squarely fair use.”
Alejandra Caraballo · Erin in the Morning
“And it doesn't even apply in this case, Caraballo said; sharing the document in its entirety for commentary and critique is squarely fair use.”
Alejandra Caraballo, Harvard Law civil rights attorney · Erin in the Morning
Amnesty International UK Human rights organizationJK Rowling Author and activist
Alejandra Caraballo Harvard Law civil rights attorney
The record 2 articles and posts · last 30 days
What people are saying 14 voices from 2 sites · verbatim
- Aug 26
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A bit of nuance, I would say it is a choice because, for example, you can choose to be a "butch dyke", or you could have surgery and pretend to be a man. I think there probably is a genetic explanation for transgenderism, a transpositioning error, or a combination of specific alleles, a mutation or some such. I don't think being an effeminate male…
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Why are you trying to debate bro about words? The reason the holocaust as referring to the genocide of the jews is called the holocaust is because people called it a holocaust of jews shortly after is occurred and it stuck. The reason one would exclude those other groups in the thing called "The Holocaust" is because people don't use that phrase…
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I didn’t. I mentioned Israel clearly in my comment. Funny watching you try your best hunting for any excuse to switch topics and claim victimhood even in this thread though lmao Zionists be Zioning I guess. I clearly mentioned Israel in my comment as the political entity that it is which is perpetrating a genocide and trying to claim special…
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"Hmmmm is my opinion unpopular? No, it can't be. It simply has to be a conspiracy trying to manipulate people with ACTUALLY normal opinions like me. Because I would never have a bad opinion that hurts people."
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You mean the concept created by a guy who was shunned by the scientific community for making up bullshit?
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Sex = Biology. Gender = Sociology. These are basic definitions you should be able to get right before you go around embarrassing yourself AND trying to make other people's lives worse.
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Let's stop pretending it doesn't have an impact on people, countries are changing laws and introducing guidelines to accommodate (rightly so, in my opinion) Trans people are fighting to NOT be ignored by society, so saying "Just ignore the trans person, they have no impact on your life" is a bit iffy.
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That is not true. In Germany, too, the Holocaust refers to the genocide of Jews. German remembrance usually refers to all victims Opfer des Nationalsozialismus and not those of holocaust specifically. I think the confusion arises because it falls on the day of the liberation of Auschwitz.
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Im entirely on your side as to the quality of his opinion wich is about as close to absolute zero as possible, but the logic of your argument is flawed since the law defends free speech ( from government suppression) not hatespeech and bigotry
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>what makes you a woman though ? why do you care so much? >How do you even know how a woman feels ? Hating your body doesn’t mean you’re a woman either i know i didn't like being a man, and living as a woman in every way that i can has made me happier. i know how a woman feels by living like a woman. >Most people respect your choice to identify as…
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you're strawmaning. originally you questioned her "genocide denial". retorted and subsequently gave examples of where she either questions or denies the genocide of trans people. i specifically tried to avoid the word holocaust. Perhaps you were unaware that you're replying to a post which directly calls her a holocaust denier: This comes after…
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Though it technically is, abstracting out her opinions into "holocaust denier" a word which most people associate it with the Germans didn't have concentration camps is also falsifying the truth through abstraction. Imagine how much credibility damage it can do if everyone started doing abstraction gotcha's for professional journalism. Just say…
- Aug 25
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here's the magnet link for the Amnesty report on transphobes that Amnesty is now actively issuing DMCA notices against, because they've moved from being victims of Rowling to being active collaborators magnet:?xt=urn:btih:7645b71eda…
- Aug 24
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