The Mueller Report Can’t Be Copyrighted, Is Flagged by Copyright Bots Anyway

It is therefore not at all surprising that a number of people and news outlets uploaded the Mueller report to Scribd. Scribd has an automated filter that searches uploads to check for alleged copyright infringement called BookID. This apparently happens so often that Scribd’s own page on the system has a whole section devoted to “false positives,” explaining:

False positives also happen enough that Scribd sent a letter—obtained by Quartz—to people whose uploads of the Mueller report were taken down, to lower people’s expectations.

Source: www.eff.org