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The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Wednesday sued Proctorio, a maker of academic surveillance software, to obtain judgement that a Miami University student's tweets linking to portions of Proctorio source code on Pastebin do not violate copyright law.
Proctorio in November last year had tweets from computer science student Erik Johnson removed from Twitter using a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown request, based on the company's claim that his posts violated its intellectual property rights. Twitter subsequently restored the tweets citing Protorio's incomplete takedown request but the Pastebin code samples remain inaccessible.
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