[pygy_]

Among the press articles and misc pages lies https://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_safety/useful-links/eu-l..., a page from the European Commission web site that sports tiny logos from the companies they link to. Isn't that considered fair use?

[fulafel]

"Fair use" isn't a thing in most jurisdictions.

[pygy_]

The DMCA is a US law, and fair use is a thing in the US. There are AFAIK specific provisions in that law regarding fair use, actually.

[fulafel]

Right, if we use this particular DMCA request as the context. But this appears to be alleging that the EU road safety page contains a copyright infringement of "Gamble Breaux-This Time (feat. Jason Singh)", which it plainly does not.

[zaarn]

But the EU isn't the US and in the EU there isn't a fair use law (though depending on EU jurisdiction you get something sorta similar but way stricter)

[bskap]

The problem is with the incentives: if the recipient of a DMCA request doesn't immediately take down the target, they become liable for any copyright infringement.

While Google would probably win if it came down to a lawsuit, the two options they have are to take it down and let the site operator dispute it, or go to court to defend the actions of a group they're unaffiliated with. The obvious choice for pretty much any group is to take it down.