The project, now called Lumen, was launched\u00a0in 2001 under the name Chilling Effects. It was a response to the\u00a0Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a\u00a0federal law\u00a0that\u00a0allowed companies, governments, and people to request that\u00a0Internet companies take down any material that was infringing on their copyright.By keeping a record of takedown requests, the site would \u201callow people to see what kinds of requests were being made, who was making them, what kind of content we were talking about,\u201d said Christopher\u00a0Bavitz, a co-director at Harvard\u2019s\u00a0Berkman Center for Internet and Society which hosts the project.<\/p>\n
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