The perjury applies to claiming to represent a copyright holder you do not. It does not apply to "misidentifying" your own copyrighted work, sadly.
So if I claim to represent a copyright holder when I do not, I have committed perjury due to the DMCA. If I "misidentify" some work as my own, I have not. Yes, there's a separate requirement of good faith, but that's not at all like perjury.
Personally, I think the penalty for bad faith DMCA notices should be that one loses the copyright claimed to be infringed, but the law contains no such provision. The reason I think that is because it's the only penalty that would convince the kind of people who spew out bogus DMCA notices to clean up their act.
So if I claim to represent a copyright holder when I do not, I have committed perjury due to the DMCA. If I "misidentify" some work as my own, I have not. Yes, there's a separate requirement of good faith, but that's not at all like perjury.
Personally, I think the penalty for bad faith DMCA notices should be that one loses the copyright claimed to be infringed, but the law contains no such provision. The reason I think that is because it's the only penalty that would convince the kind of people who spew out bogus DMCA notices to clean up their act.