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Nintendo’s ‘Mario Movie’ Leaks: DMCA Used To Suppress Spoiler Discussion

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Post Removed By Reddit For Copyright Infringement. As the embedded image shows, the user’s post was subsequently removed by Reddit’s Legal Operations team following a “copyright claim by a third party.” ” The important thing here is to find out who sent the notice and on what grounds. .”

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Digital Trails: How Bungie Identified a Mass Sender of Fake DMCA Notices

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Using the DMCA’s takedown process as a weapon, persons unknown sent copyright notices to YouTube, claiming that the targeted videos should be taken down for infringing Bungie’s rights. As part of its investigation, Bungie accessed data made public following the 2016 breach of hacking and cheating site Nulled.io.

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A Preliminary Analysis of Trump’s Copyright Lawsuit Over Interview Recordings (Trump v. Simon & Schuster) (Guest Blog Post)

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The lawsuit involves sound recordings of 19 interviews that then-President Trump voluntarily gave to Woodward between December 2019 and August 2020, plus one interview from 2016 (when Trump was still a candidate). If the work was published with proper copyright notice, it received a federal statutory copyright.

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