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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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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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Reddit Banned 2,625 Subreddits For Excessive Copyright Infringement in 2021

TorrentFreak

In common with the vast majority of large companies based in the US, Reddit has to follow the requirements of the DMCA which means that when it receives a valid copyright notice, it must comply by taking the identified content down. “In 2021, Reddit received 177,450 copyright notices reporting 920,672 pieces of content.

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Reddit Reports Surge in Copyright Takedown Notices and User Bans

TorrentFreak

. “From January to June of 2022, Reddit received 176,959 copyright notices reporting 738,010 pieces of content. We removed 564,730 pieces of content in response to these takedown notices,” the company writes. Other, less common rejection reasons, include a lack of copyright infringement and fair use.

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3 Count: Noisy Hill

Plagiarism Today

As such, he has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the musician and the artist who created the cover, Timm Gooden. Cardi B had previously argued that the use of the image was a fair use because it was transformative.

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October 19, 1976 – President Gerald Ford Signs the “New” Copyright Act…and Much More

Velocity of Content

The 1976 Act brought in many aspects of copyright with which we are now familiar, including codifying fair use in Section 107 (it previously had been applied on a common law basis). Harper & Row brought suit and The Nation argued that publishing the excerpts was a fair use.

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Why Reddit Declined to Remove 173,280 Pieces of Content

Plagiarism Today

According to Reddit, these notices resulted in some 564,730 pieces of content being removed, resulting in a “content actionability rate” of 76.5%. While that rate is typical among hosts of its type, that still leaves some 173,280 pieces of content that were reported as copyright infringing but were not removed.

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