An anonymous reader points out the recent trouble of author Cody Jackson, who wrote a book called
Learning to Program with Python. He offers the book for sale, but also gives it away for free, and he used the CC-BY license. In order to distribute the book, he posted links to his torrent of it. Unfortunately, this cause Google to
suspect his AdSense account for his website. Even after removing the links, he was unable to get in contact with Google's AdSense team to
get his accounts restored. After his story was
picked up yesterday by Techdirt, somebody at Google "re-reviewed" his case and
finally reinstated his account. Jackson had this to say: "One good thing about this is that it has helped raise awareness of the problems with corporate copyright policies and copyright regulation as a whole. When a person is unable to post his/her own products on the 'net because someone fears copyright infringement has occurred, there is a definite problem." This follows a few
high-profile situations in which copyright enforcement bots have knocked down perfectly legitimate content.