Pearl Jam, R.E.M. and Green Day also sign open letter with Artist Rights Alliance. Continue reading…
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We’ve been writing about Twitch’s copyright-takedowns problem this month: a barrage of retrospective claims for past music use in videos archived on Amazon’s service, followed by news that Twitch will be pro-actively scanning clips for copyrighted music, and deleting them for creators. Now Billboard has been talking to the two main US music industry bodies about what’s going on. “During Covid-19, […]
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Source: https://musically.com/2020/06/16/us-bodies-explain-why-twitch-is-suddenly-getting-takedowns/
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The social media company last month slapped fact-check warnings on two tweets from the president’s own account.
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As if this timeline can get any more exhaustingly bonkers, Trump’s new merchandise is a worse version of Disney’s iconic Hocus Pocus poster.
The president’s campaign team released a new poster on Monday morning. The texts reads “STOP THE WITCH-HUNT” superimposed over Trump, who’s flying out of over Capitol building toward the viewer while holding an American flag. Three figures — who are supposed to represent Rep. Adam Schiff, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Rep. Jerry Nadler, gaze into the glowing orb that holds the oddly triangular flying Trump.
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Enlarge / The United States Capitol Building, the seat of Congress, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. (credit: Omar Chatriwala | Getty Images)
In a change of pace for the modern era, the House of Representatives yesterday agreed on a bill and passed it by an overwhelming majority. Unfortunately, the bill in question, known as the CASE Act, is a controversial measure that critics argue could penalize ordinary Americans as much as $30,000 for something as simple as photo sharing, while also emboldening copyright trolls.
The House voted 410-6 on Monday to adopt the measure, fully named the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2019. The bill aims in part to create a new “small claims” Copyright Claims Board within the US Copyright Office. That, proponents argue, would give content creators and rights holders a better, more efficient way to pursue infringement claims, instead of having to spend the time and money on filing a federal court case.
As Schoolhouse Rock taught us, a bill needs approval from both the House and Senate before it can become law. (Though the reality is somewhat more complex). CASE went through committee in both the House and Senate earlier this year, and so the version of the bill the House voted to accept on Monday is ready to go to the Senate floor for a vote.
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Source: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/house-approves-bill-that-could-fast-track-30000-copyright-penalties/
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David Bowie was a born collaborator. That was part of his genius. For his entire career, Bowie displayed a knack for finding the exact right collaborators at the exact right times, and he let the work of his peers help shape his own work. And now, one of those collaborators has announced that he’s in … More »
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YouTube will no longer allow copyright holders to seize a creator’s revenue over very brief or unintentional music clips that appears in videos, it said in a blog post. That means that if a five-second clip or the radio from a passing car appears in…Source: https://www.engadget.com/2019/08/16/youtube-copyright-seized-revenue-snippets/
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The award winning artist denies the claims
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A Pepe the Frog copyright infringement claim filed against Infowars will proceed to trial, a California federal judge ruled Thursday after being unconvinced by motions argued by either side.Source: https://www.rt.com/usa/459667-pepe-frog-infowars-copyright-trial/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS
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When it comes to Game of Thrones and piracy — or, really, any popular piece of media and piracy — the question isn’t so much “if” as it is “how many.” In Game of Thrones case, how many is… a lot.
New stats from the online piracy data firm Muso suggest that the April 14 season premiere of HBO’s hit series was downloaded or watched illegally more than 54 million times in the 24 hours after it aired. For context, Nielsen’s tracking puts the total number of legal viewers on Sunday night at 17.4 million.
(The Nielsen data accounts for those who tuned in for the episode live at 9:00 p.m. ET or either of the two reruns that followed, as well as those who streamed it over HBO’s on demand services. Nielsen’s data doesn’t account for repeat viewings, however.) Read more…
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Source: https://mashable.com/article/game-of-thrones-season-8-premiere-piracy-illegal-downloads/
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The first and last episodes of the season are most at risk
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Even as the row over Spotify’s publishing licensing in India rages, so attention is switching back to the US, where the Department of Justice is mulling a shakeup of the long-established ‘consent decrees’. “The Justice Department in the coming weeks is expected to call for public input on whether it should modify or terminate two […]
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Source: https://musically.com/2019/02/27/us-could-overhaul-its-music-licensing-rules-for-publishing/
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Enlarge / The copyright to The Great Gatsby—the 1925 novel, not the 2013 movie starring Leonardo di Caprio—will expire two years from today. (credit: Warner Bros. Picture)
As the balled dropped over Times Square last night, all copyrighted works published in 1923 fell into the public domain. Everyone now has the right to republish them or adapt them for use in new works.
It’s the first time this has happened in 21 years.
Until the 1970s, copyright expirations were an annual occurrence. On January 1, 1977, works published in 1921 became free for anyone to use. But then an overhaul of copyright law—passed in 1976 but not taking effect until 1978—extended copyright protections by 20 years. As a result, the copyrights for 1922 works expired in 1998 instead of 1978.
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Source: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/a-whole-years-worth-of-works-just-fell-into-the-public-domain/
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For years, the RIAA and MPAA have pointed to the millions upon millions of takedown notices sent to Google as “evidence” that the DMCA notice-and-takedown process doesn’t work. You can find lots of examples of this, but here’s an MPAA VP making this exact point:
“The large volume of removal requests cited in Google’s Transparency Report clearly illustrates the magnitude of the piracy problem and the ineffectiveness of the ‘notice and take down’ system,” said Chris Ortman, MPAA VP of corporate communications. “If this system were working, the numbers would be going down — not up.”
But here’s the thing about that quote: it’s almost entirely bullshit. First off, the numbers have started going down, but you don’t suddenly hear Chris Ortman and the MPAA saying “look, the notice and takedown system is now working!” Because Ortman wasn’t being honest when he made the original statement.
But, the larger point, is that takedown requests, by themselves, don’t mean a damn thing about how much infringement there actually is. The requests may be bogus. Indeed, millions of the requests to Google turn out to… not even be in Google’s index. Torrentfreak had a recent story pointing out that the top 3 copyright owners alone sent Google over a billion takedown requests. That article further shows just how top heavy the requests are, with the top 16 copyright owners reporting more than 50% of all the takedown requests to Google. In other words, a very small group of organizations very much have their fingers on the scales of how many takedown requests Google receives. So, for those very same organizations to whine that more takedown requests proves anything… is questionable, at best.
And back to that point about many requests not even being in Google’s index. As Google’s Transparency Report shows, many of those top removal requesters keep requesting links that Google doesn’t even have. The 2nd largest requester, for example, is APDIF Mexico. It submitted over a quarter of a billion takedowns. But do those mean anything? Well, let’s take a look at its most recent batch of requests:
So… look at that last column. A huge percentage of the URLs were not even in the index. Then look at the column to the left of that. Google removed none of the links requested. Obviously, it can’t remove the non-indexed ones, but it appears that even when they were in Google’s index, they were deemed non-infringing or, in some cases, duplicates to URLs that had already been received in earlier takedowns. In other words, counting up the number of requests is meaningless when organizations can and do submit URLs that aren’t even in Google and when they simply repeat URLs that had already been requested. Anyone could simply re-request the same URL a billion times and it wouldn’t say a damn thing about whether the notice-and-takedown system is working.
Or, if you think it’s unfair to pick on APDIF Mexico — an organization many of you have never heard of — why not look at the RIAA? Of all of the latest requests from the RIAA, I noticed that, once again, it shows no removals by Google. Why? Because the RIAA is submitting duplicates of URLs already removed. This is literally the result of their latest request from earlier today according to Google:
If you can’t see that, it shows that 99% of the URLs submitted are duplicates, and the other 1% is still “pending” meaning they might also be duplicates. When the RIAA is submitting links that have already been removed, it kinda makes you wonder if the RIAA and groups like it are simply padding their own numbers to later try to make a bullshit point about how many “takedown requests” Google receives. It certainly highlights the fact that the RIAA does not actually check to see if what they’re submitting to Google is actually in Google.
Anyway, the next time you hear the likes of the RIAA or MPAA claiming that the DMCA notice-and-takedown safe harbors aren’t working because of the number of takedowns, you can safely note that they are being dishonest.
Source: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181227/10311341298/millions-upon-millions-takedown-notices-to-google-links-that-arent-even-google.shtml
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