Bohemea wasn’t the only popular blog tumblr/yahoo deleted today:
Peanutweeter, the hilarious marriage of random funny tweets with Peanuts cartoons, was removed from Tumblr Friday, following an infringement claim made under Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
A tweet from the @Peanutweeter account, sent just after noon PDT, claimed that the site had been taken offline following a DMCA claim by Iconix Brand Group, which owns copyrights on the Peanuts characters and comic strip.
The site’s creator, T. Jason Agnello, said he doesn’t plan to fight the takedown.
“I believe I put a good-faith effort into specifying that this was a fair use parody,” Agnello said Friday in an e-mail to Wired.com. “However, I don’t have the legal might to argue it. Nor do I wish for the stress in doing so.”
Iconix Brand Group operates a subsidiary called Peanuts Worldwide that, according to the company’s website, is a joint venture with Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates that formed “a new home to the global Peanuts property.”
A letter sent by Iconix to Tumblr claimed the web service was hosting content that infringed on copyrights owned by Peanuts Worldwide and made a request under the DMCA to remove @Peanutweeter. The letter added that Peanuts Worldwide is the owner of numerous copyrights for the Peanuts characters and comic strip including “the material depicted at www.peanutweeter.com.”If they are deleting blogs for one takedown notice, I don’t think I can host my blogs on Tumblr anymore. Working on a solution for that…
Screw sponsored posts, this is the Tumblr users’ worst nightmare. I have read that Bohemea and Peanutweeter are not the only blogs to have been deleted in the past week. If Tumblr is deleting blogs for one takedown notice (I’ve had several in the past so this is a very real threat), I am now forced to look at other options for hosting all of my blogs, which are my livelihood. This is a very sad day.
I knew Yahoo had to screw with us somehow, but I didn’t expect this.
Good Grief! Peanutweeter Gets Taken Down Following DMCA Claim | Underwire | Wired.com: