A deposit requirement prevents floods of takedown requests
Austin Church, 2023 – J.D. Candidate, Boston University School of Law “INCORPORATING A DEPOSIT MECHANISM INTO THE DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT TO FIGHT ONLINE COUNTERFEITING IN E-COMMERCE” BOSTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW [Vol.103:935, Hein Online. Accessed via University of Michigan //DH
157 There are concerns with the DMCA around floods of takedown requests being filed. That flooding in the copyright context is one reason that adding a deposit requirement to the trademark context will be beneficial. See BRUCE BOYDEN, THE FAILURE OF THE DMCA NOTICE AND TAKEDOWN SYSTEM: A TWENTIETH CENTURY SOLUTION TO A TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY PROBLEM 1 (2013), https://sls.gmu.edu/cpip/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2013/08 /Bruce-Boyden-The-Failure-of-the-DMCA-Notice-and-Takedown-System1.pdf [https://perma.cc/JA9T-PU2W] (noting there were 6.5 million takedown notices sent each month in 2013).