The perjury issue with the DMCA is something that confuses a lot of people, obviously including yourself. There are two cases where perjury is cited in the DMCA. First, a person must be authorized to work on behalf of the owner of the infringed property:

(A) To be effective under this subsection, a notification of claimed infringement must be a written communication provided to the designated agent of a service provider that includes substantially the following: …. (vi) A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Note here that they sign that the information is accurate, but not under penalty of perjury. The perjury statement follows the ‘and’ and only refers to authorized representation.

On the other hand, if you claim that the material was uninfringing, you have to sign under penalty of perjury that your i