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Fraudsters are abusing Google with fake copyright complaints, and it’s getting worse

sudshr47 August 6, 2018

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Anonymous search engine fraudsters are filing fraudulent takedown requests in an effort to game Google’s search results in their favor, according to a report from TorrentFreak.

These counterfeit DMCA takedown notices are coming from imposters posing as either legitimate copyright holders or third parties authorized to file the notices on their behalf. Judging by the fake notices, TorrentFreak believes that competitors of the targeted websites are issuing these takedowns, sometimes reporting a single copyright infringement and then requesting hundreds of links on a website be taken down based on it. Read more…

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YouTube launches new tool for finding and removing unauthorized re-uploads

sudshr47 July 11, 2018

Re-uploading videos on YouTube is a favorite of scammy channels that try to profit from other people’s work. Copyright owners already have a number of ways to protect their content, but today, the service is introducing a new tool that automatically scans every newly uploaded video to check if it’s a re-upload of an existing one […]

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European MEPs vote to reopen copyright debate over ‘censorship’ controversy

sudshr47 July 5, 2018

A 318-278 majority of MEPs in the European Parliament has voted to reopen debate around a controversial digital copyright reform proposal — meaning it will now face further debate and scrutiny in the parliament, rather than be fast-tracked towards becoming law via the standard EU trilogue negotiation process. Crucially MEPs will have the chance to […]

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Europe considers internet copyright law that would kill your favorite gifs and memes

sudshr47 June 20, 2018

Say goodbye to Doge and Grumpy Cat.
The European Parliament legal branch voted to pass a new copyright laws today that could possibly kill internet culture as we know it: no more memes and no more gifs.
The new set of laws dubbed the Copyright Direct…

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Advocacy groups knock ‘unjust’ copyright-extending CLASSICS Act

sudshr47 June 4, 2018

Copyright is a mess, but more of a mess in some ways than others, and one of the biggest messes right now is licensing music for digital broadcast. The Music Modernization Act aims to smooth over some of the biggest bumps, but a companion piece has aroused the ire of a collection of internet advocacy groups, who have voiced their concerns via a letter penned by copyright scholar Lawrence Lessig.

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How Microsoft helped imprison a man for ‘counterfeiting’ software it gives away for free

sudshr47 April 25, 2018

In a sickening concession to bad copyright law and Microsoft’s bottom line over basic technical truths and common sense, Eric Lundgren will spend 15 months in prison for selling discs that let people reinstall Windows on licensed machines. A federal appeals court this week upheld the sentence handed down in ignorance by a Florida district judge, for a crime the man never committed.

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Neil Young has a bone to pick with Google, Amazon and Facebook

sudshr47 February 26, 2018

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Neil Young has had it with major tech companies undervaluing musicians.

The legendary musician delivered an emotional, targeted rant at Google, Facebook, Amazon and similar tech giants on Friday, accusing them of underpaying artists.

“Today, in the age of Facebook, Google and Amazon, it’s hard to tell how a new and growing musical artist could make it in the way we did,” Young wrote in a post published by Neil Young Archives. 

“The Tech Giants have figured out a way to use all the great music of everyone from all time, without reporting an artist’s number of plays or paying a fucking cent to the musicians. Aren’t they great companies!!!  Read more…

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Federal judge rules that embedded tweets can represent copyright infringement

sudshr47 February 16, 2018

 A recent ruling by a New York federal judge could have significant implications for how copyright laws are enforced. The ruling was made in a case where Justin Goldman accused publications including Breitbart, Time, Yahoo, Vox Media and the Bosto…

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Google has just made it harder for you to steal photos from Google Images

sudshr47 February 16, 2018

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Google’s just made a rather subtle change to its image search — but one that will have big repercussions for copyright.

Announced on Thursday on Twitter, the company has removed the “view image” button from image search, which will make it trickier to save copyrighted images directly.

Once a direct link to a high resolution version of your chosen image, the “view image” button was a concern for photographers, publishers and stock image sites alike, as it allowed people to access a high res version of the image without visiting the source site. Read more…

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