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Overview
Office Depot DMCA was a Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown notice issued by the legal representatives of the Americans office stationary retailer Office Depot to request for the removal of an image that was posted on Reddit's self-satirical /r/circlejerk community in April 2013.
Background
On April 5th, 2013, Redditor heisenberg69 submitted a post titled “TIL that the Nazi swastika fits perfectly into the Office Depot logo” to /r/circlejerk,[4] a meta-subreddit that pokes fun at the subculture of Reddit. The post linked to an Imgur page containing a logo of the office product supply retailer Office Depot with an asymmetrical swastika drawn inside of it. While the image was well-received within /r/circlejerk as a clever satire of TIL (today I learned) posts and Nazi conspiracist theories that are all too commonly shared on the site, the satirical edge was less apparent to those unfamiliar with the premise of the subreddit.
Then on November 6th, 2013, Office Depot sent a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)[1] notice to Reddit, requesting the removal of heisenberg69’s "racist, hateful and violent" post from the site.
Notable Developments
The same day, the tech news site Tech Dirt[2] mocked the unfounded basis of Office Depot's copyright infringement claim in an article titled "Office Depot Sends World's Worst DMCA Notice To Reddit." The article was subsequently linked to the /r/technology[3] subreddit, where it received more than 19,600 up votes and 1,600 comments in the first 24 hours.
Also on November 6th, Redditor RalphiesBoogers submitted a post titled “Googled ‘Office Depot CEO.’ Was not disappoint” to the /r/circlejerk[6] subreddit, featuring a screenshot of a Google image search results page for the keywords “office depot ceo” containing images of the Nazi Germany dictator Adolph Hitler (shown below). In less than 24 hours, the post garnered upwards of 7,400 up votes and 200 comments.
As of 3 p.m. (ET), November 7th, at least 275 discussion posts ridiculing Office Depot's DMCA notice have been submitted to the /r/circlejerk[5] subreddit.
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External References
[1] Document Cloud – DMCA Reddit
[2] Tech Dirt – Office Depot Send Worlds Worst DMCA Notice to Reddit
[3] Reddit – Office Depot Sends Worlds Worst DMCA Notice to Reddit
[4] Reddit – TIL that the NAZI SWASTIKA fits perfectly into the Office Depot logo
[5] Reddit – /r/circlejerk office depot search
[6] Reddit – Googled Office Depot CEO
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![http://i.imgur.com/uSRIFNF.png search reddit u/heisenberg69 received a DMCA notice from Office Depot's lawyers for posting this image to r/circlejerk. If this gets 1,000 upvotes, I will enable link posts for all CJ users. But when we do, don't post this image and variations thereof (wink wink)· lumour.com) (165110) submitted i hour ago by dhamster to Tony the Tiger says to eat your breakfast! [x-post /r/Kelloggs] (imgur.com circlejerk (5761150) subrnitted 4 hours ago by·Parakeethipple G[M] Use subreddit style comments share save hide report 182,073 try-hards O 3,025 fithy casuals here now My First D[M]CA request, be gentlel u.com Choo Ch00 (mgur.com 4812) submited 21 minutes ago by The Magic Skey Fairy 5 comments share save hide report "Be funny · Have you s een Office D s new logo? · "Satirze" the f--- out of reddt. . Link posts are enabled! Seek Unending Adolf Hitler became dictator of Germany on March 23, 1933. Office Depot was founded on March 23, 1986. Mere coincidence? (umpur.com) (4516) submitted 16 minutes ago by RalphiesBoogers The Comic Adventures of Nick Beard All modmail must be handwritten on a piece of paper, and signed with your username You must then take a photo of yourself (face visible) holding the paper. Upload that photo to imgur and send us that link. If you don't we're not going to read your mail THANKS! 122126) submitted 4 hours ago b rakeetApple <-(M) Erin submitted this earlier imgur.com 2012) submitted 12 minutes ago by WIlTrivium DAE Office Depot sucks imgur.com (610) submitted 15 minutes ago by thelovepirate TIL that the NAZI SWASTIKA fits perfectly into the Office Depot logo UPVOTE FOR VISIBILITY 2814) submitted 1 minutes ago by RalphiesBoogers Please stop posting this picture!! guys. really. 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