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Yesterday, YouTube published its first every Copyright Transparency Report. With that step, it follows in the footsteps of Google , Facebook , Reddit and other major industry players in publishing such a report. However, YouTube’s first report comes out in a very different context than the others.
First off today, Zuhaad Ali at The Games Post reports that video game maker Bungie has filed a lawsuit against an individual named Nicholas Minor over allegations that Minor pretended to be a Bungie representative to file false copyrightnotices against other YouTubers. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.
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In addition to rising visitor numbers, copyright enforcement complaints have skyrocketed to previously unimaginable levels. That includes the volume of incoming DMCA takedown notices. Reddit detailed these trends a few days ago in its latest transparency report. Reddit Takedown Record.
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1: YouTube Says it Receives Millions of Incorrect Video Copyright Takedown Requests. First off today, Aimee Chanthadavong at ZDNet reports that YouTube has released its first every copyrightreport and, in doing so, has shined a light on the number and kinds of copyright requests it receives.
In recent years, these have included the publication of a transparency report documenting how various legal policies affect the site’s content. These figures have been steadily increasing, and last year was no exception, according to the transparency report. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
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Back in September , I reported on Facebook’s Widely Viewed Content Report and how Casey Newton, a reporter at The Verge, noticed that nearly all the top posts on Facebook for the quarter were plagiarized. . This was in part because the company feared running afoul of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
For the purpose of this report, however, we’ll home in on the copyright issues faced by Reddit during the last year and how the site responded to them. Copyright Removals. On the other hand, when submitters send notices that are incomplete or invalid in some other way, Reddit does not.
At the end of 2021, YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 (“Report”) was published. It is interesting to look at this Report against the background of the 2019 EU rules for the liability of platforms like YouTube through the famous Art. It is the first ever report by YouTube on copyright actions.
Find the Host’s Designated Agent: Hosts designate an agent to receive copyrightnotices on their behalf. Complete a Takedown Notice: Fill out a takedown notice with all the required information. In short, it’s a singular place to report unlawful internet content hosted in South Africa.
Instead of the usual DMCA copyrightnotices, the music group asked the search engine to remove various URLs for alleged violations of the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision. 36% of All Circumvention Notices. The French label is by far the most prolific sender of DMCA anti-circumvention notices.
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He clicked the ‘Open Full Report’ button for more information and found himself transported to an obviously-not-YouTube URL, with his email address tagged on the end. Given the warning’s claim that any decision will stand if the user doesn’t read the full report, one can imagine that some might be tempted.
The movie companies say they notified Comcast of these infringements in more than 250,000 DMCA notices. Despite receiving more than a quarter of a million copyrightnotices, Comcast failed to take action against its allegedly infringing customers, the lawsuit claims. Failure to Terminate Repeat Infringers.
In Iraq, for example, tackling copyright infringement isn’t seen as a priority or a new phenomenon. As a result, “copyrightnotices” were sent to US bases and United States Central Command was put on high alert. That’s a concern for copyright holders. At the end of 2021, the U.S. businesses.
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The rightsholders have sent thousands of copyright infringement notices to hosting companies, which were reportedly forwarded to the VPN defendants. However, based on these notices, the accused VPNs can’t pinpoint individual subscribers. Logging Repeat Infringers?
As reported by TF back in March, DISH Network filed a huge lawsuit against pirate IPTV provider ChitramTV. In an effort to shut the service down, DISH said it sent at least 134 copyright infringement notices to Chitram between July 2014 and November 2015.
.” Piracy Notices Never Came Through. If the court chooses not to dismiss the copyright claims, the ISP would like the claims to be drastically limited. The company explains that many of the copyrightnotices sent by the rightsholders should be excluded because they were sent to the wrong email address.
However, Millennium says that the defendants should’ve sent the new agent “monthly reports providing details of the Infringement Actions including, but not limited to, any number of actions filed, the number of settlement agreements reach, and collections made as a result of any such settlement agreements.”
As a result, “copyrightnotices” were sent to US bases and even United States Central Command was put on high alert. The USTR uses these and other public comments to create its Special 301 Report, an annual list of countries that deserve extra attention due to various shortcomings that may hurt U.S. businesses.
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