Last week we reported on the story of Dr. Ken Cirka, a Philadelphia dentist who required his patients to sign a 'mutual privacy agreement' as a condition of getting medical care. We wrote that we couldn't find any examples of this type of agreement being used to censor online reviews. Indeed, Dr. Cirka specifically denied having used his copyright assignment policy to remove patient reviews.
After we ran our original story, Yelp informed us that Dr. Cirka had used the threat of a copyright infringement lawsuit to force the removal of a negative Yelp review. Confronted with the apparent contradiction between his words and his actions, Dr. Cirka seemed to have a change of heart. He now says he has stopped asking patients to sign 'mutual privacy agreements,' and won't renew his Medical Justice membership.
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