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Reddit Banned 5,853 Users for Excessive Copyright Infringement Last Year

TorrentFreak

In recent years, these have included the publication of a transparency report documenting how various legal policies affect the site’s content. Reddit’s responses to DMCA takedown notices and the site’s handling of excessive copyright infringement are listed separately in the “legal removals” section.

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Tips for Avoiding Copyright Infringement

The IP Law Blog

Many find it surprising, but there is no requirement to include a copyright notice on a work for the work to be protected by copyright law. The lack of a copyright notice does not give you permission to use the work. Examples of copyright infringement include the following when done without permission.

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Facebook’s Plagiarism Problems Are Deeper Than You Realize

Plagiarism Today

As part of their series The Facebook Files , which is an examination of leaked internal documents from the company, the paper published a scathing review of the company’s practices surrounding copied content. This was in part because the company feared running afoul of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

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ISP Will Unmask 100 Alleged BitTorrent Pirates in RIAA Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

These accounts were previously targeted in copyright notices sent by the RIAA or a third party. Altice, for example, will also gain access to some non-privileged documents and communications between the music companies and their anti-piracy partners , including the RIAA, OpSec, and Audible Magic. now Rainberry Inc.),

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Tips for Avoiding Copyright Infringement

LexBlog IP

Many find it surprising, but there is no requirement to include a copyright notice on a work for the work to be protected by copyright law. The lack of a copyright notice does not give you permission to use the work. Examples of copyright infringement include the following when done without permission.

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ISP Optimum Questions ‘Evidence’ For Billion Dollar Piracy Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers “in appropriate circumstances.” This legal requirement remained largely unenforced for nearly two decades but a series of copyright infringement liability lawsuits, including a billion-dollar damages award against Cox, have shaken up the industry.

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RIAA Sues Verizon After ISP “Buried Head in Sand” Over Subscribers’ Piracy

TorrentFreak

Just before the weekend, dozens of record labels including UMG, Warner, and Sony, filed a massive copyright infringement lawsuit against Verizon at a New York federal court. The policy further states that under Section 512 of the DMCA, Verizon terminates repeat infringers in “appropriate circumstances.”