A Spanish reputation management firm seems to have demonstrated that this type of business, too, can abuse the copyright system and censor content via bogus infringement claims.
"Reputation management" here means, getting a TV star, a company, etc. - out of trouble - in other words, it's "PR on steroids." The goal is to make sure that any negative story about a client gets buried deep in the internet's backwaters - or preferably, deleted.
The Spanish company in question - Eliminalia - was, according to publicly available sources, founded by Diego Sanchez (aka, Didac Sanchez) and now operates in dozens of countries and services several high-profile clients - out of offices in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Eliminalia is said to be a property of a Miami holding company called, "Maidan Holdings" ("Maidan" apparently, being a reference to the controversial events in Ukraine's capital in 2014).
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