From Fairfax:
Last week Fairfax Media reported that Ms O’Dwyer had taken the extraordinary step of forcing Twitter to dismantle the joke account @Kelly_dnuSophie, which compared her election campaign in Higgins to the disastrous 2013 loss of Indi by her friend and fellow Liberal Sophie Mirabella.
…As the “is Kelly the new Sophie” comparisons gained traction, an official complaint was lodged by Jennifer Freind (sic), who is described as the “social media advisor to the Victorian Liberal Party”. She issued a “Digital Millennium Copyright Act (USA) takedown notice”, claiming the copyright to photographs used by the account was owned by Kelly O’Dwyer.
Twitter locked the account in response, however, most of the photographs on the site appear to be under copyright not to Ms O’Dwyer, but to Fairfax Media.
Twitter’s latest determination of “Case #34662656” isn’t good news for Liberal Party of Victoria or Ms O’Dwyer.
“Upon further review of the DMCA notice . . we have determined that the notice is invalid,” states the social media giant. “The content has been restored and [the] account has not been penalised.”
Twitter has also issued a please explain to the Liberal Party of Victoria, and wants to know why it faked a copyright claim over the photos in order to shut down the account.
Here is the benign page. Lot’s of publicity for it now.
