Oct 16
We all know that DMCA notices are kinda dumb, but this is ridiculous: a single takedown request from Pearson, a textbook publisher, took down 1.45 million education blogs in one fell swoop. More »
Oct 07
Bogus DMCA notices are unfortunately nothing new, but one recently issued to Google from Microsoft seems to go a bit further—and get a bit more absurd—than your average takedown request. This one hit sites like Wikipedia, the BBC, TechCrunch, and AMC Theaters, seemingly over the use of the number 45. More »
Oct 04
YouTube’s ContentID was a huge step forward towards online video being copyright-compliant, but the system had some quirks. For instance, official NASA recordings of the Mars landing last month were removed due to a complaint from a news network. Michelle Obama made a speech at the DNC that was flagged, even though YouTube was the official streaming partner of the Democratic National Convention. That’s not even mentioning the countless smaller media creators who have had legitimate videos flagged. Under current ContentID policy there is little to no recourse. That’s about to change, because Google-owned YouTube announced that they were tweaking the system to cut down on the number of false positives and system-wide abuse. (more…)
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: YouTube takes copyright violators to school, Jailbreak of Xbox Still Deemed Illegal by Judge,
Oct 04
YouTube’s automated copyright takedown system is nothing if not robust, often to the point of head-shaking ridiculousness. But even though the company’s trigger-happy Content ID isn’t going away any time soon, it’s at least getting a much-needed kick in the pants. More »
Sep 08
Google Gets Tons of Takedown Requests For Sites That Don’t Even Exist Anymore [Copyright]
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Rightsholders sure are trigger-happy when it comes to wiping their copyrighted content off the face of the Internet. They’re so trigger-happy, in fact, that they’re dishing out all kind of takedown requests for links to websites that haven’t existed for months. More »
Aug 11
Google’s Giving YouTube a Pass With Its New Piracy Provisions (Updated) [YouTube]
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Google is implementing a new policy that will smack down search results from sites that get a lot of DMCA requests. That must affect Google’s own YouTube, which must get slammed with them all the time, right? Not exactly. More »
Aug 06
NASA’s Official Mars Landing Video Got Taken Off YouTube Over Bogus Copyright Claims [Dmca]
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The Curiosity Rover may have landed safely on the surface of Mars, but like all good things, it’s not invulnerable to completely bogus DMCA takedown requests. More »
Jul 03
Twitter Transparency Report shows DMCA and government actions: US is biggest busybody
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Twitter dispatched its first biannual Transparency Report — revealing government requests for user info and content holdback along with DMCA takedown notices — which spotlights the US as the most active by far. The company claimed it was aroused to action by Google, which has been doing it for the last two years and recently added copyright takedowns to its own reports. So far, Twitter says that while most nations requested user data 10 times or fewer, the US government made 679 such appeals, more than the entire rest of the world combined. It also showed how often it obeyed — 75 percent of the time in the US; much less elsewhere — and said that affected users are always notified unless the company is prohibited from doing so. As we also noted with Google’s reports, DMCA takedowns were by far the most numerous requests, with 3,378 total affecting 5,874 users, and 599 offending items actually pulled (38 percent). Those appeals aren’t broken down by company like Mountain View’s, but if you think that Usher photo mashup you’re using as an avatar might be a problem, check the source to see all the data.
Twitter Transparency Report shows DMCA and government actions: US is biggest busybody originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 03 Jul 2012 04:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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