From:
http://www.nicksenger.com/blog/sfwa-accuses-teen-literacy-of-copyright-violation

"Apparently I’m beginning to attract attention–and not the kind I was expecting. I was informed this afternoon that the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have requested that my list of 300+ Recommended Books for Junior High Students be removed from Scribd because it violates copyright. I have absolutely no idea what is going on with this.

The only thing I can figure is that since I read some of their books ten years ago when I made the list, they think I just copied titles and called it good. Nothing could be further from the truth. I have spent over seventeen years teaching literature to junior high students, and in that time have formulated my own opinions regarding what teens like to read.

I contacted Scribd this afternoon, and Jared Friedman, president of Scribd, has already replied to my email, directing me to file something called a counter-notification, which I have done. Hopefully the matter will be cleared up shortly.

If I have violated copyright unintentionally I will correct the matter and post a new list. But I can’t for the life of me imagine how my personally developed list could violate copyright."

I am perfectly fine with takedown notices for things that people actually own, but I gotta wonder why groups like the SFWA, RIAA, etc. don't check their information better before issuing takedown notices. A mere mention of an author's name doesn't qualify as copyright infringement in the U.S. A takedown notice for that results in nothing in the long run other than inspiring both trepidation and a huge backlash.

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According to Dear Author, "Most of the take down notices were improperly executed because the SFWA had not had authorization from the copyright holders to send out the notices."
http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2007/09/04/science-fiction-writers-association-disolves-anti-e-piracy-committee/

Responding to numerous complaints from authors, the SFWA has disbanded the anti e-piracy committee until they figure out what that group SHOULD be doing.
http://www.sfwa.org/news/2007/sfwamotion.htm

my sugestion as to what they SHOULD be doing..
growing brains FFS!

This is interesting--a different viewpoint from a sci fi author commenting on Teleread:
http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=7044

"Please be careful accusing SFWA of “bully tactics” and conflating them with “a third of all DMCA take-down notices are illegal”. SFWA and some of their member authors tried to work with scribd by sending polite requests to take down infringing material; as Pournelle shows (http://www.jerrypournelle.com/view/view481.html#Saturday), scribd never bothered to answer.

"SFWA had a list with thousands of scribd copyright infingements on it; among these were 3 errors (that’s an error rate of somewhere between 0.0015% and 0.0003%), all of which SFWA corrected immediately when brought to their attention. The storm brewing over this is almost entirely Doctorow’s concoction….

"so far, the record of action shows scribd infringing thousands of copyrights for months, SFWA asking scribd nicely to stop and being ignored. Apparently DMCA notices are the only way to get their attention, so this is what SFWA resorted to, with a very small error rate, after exhausting more polite measures."