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

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. “In 2022, we saw a 43% increase over the previous year in the total number of copyright notices received, a 126% increase in the amount of content reported for removal, and a 97% increase in the amount of content removed,” Reddit reports. Compared to other content removals, copyright actions are relatively modest.

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3 Count: YouTube Battles

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Next up today, in a very different YouTube story, Jordan Middler at VGC reports that the YouTuber behind the GilvaSunner channel has decided to call it quits after receiving more than 4,000 “copyright blocks” on his account. Now those notices have been followed up with another 2,200 from Nintendo.

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

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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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3 Count: Not Very Private

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However, RCN has hit back, saying that Righscorp, which was responsible for most of the detection of pirated material, unfairly flooded them with too many copyright notices. According to the judge, the case is not about RCN versus Rightscorp, but the safe harbor questions that exist between RCN and the major labels.

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5 Spooky Articles About Copyright and Halloween

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In 2019, it was due to road work on my street and both 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic. When the film was released, the print was missing a copyright notice. Under the laws at the time, this mean that it didn’t have copyright protection. However, for the past few years, the haunt has been closed.

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Facebook’s Plagiarism Problems Are Deeper Than You Realize

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The first was in August 2020, shortly after this problem began. It started in the last 2-3 months, EVERY DMCA notice, regardless through form or email, gets some kind of “we can’t act on your complaint” email request for more info. I’ve sat down twice to write an article about this specific issue. This seems to be a common theme.

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Is Your Website Published or Unpublished?

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Their pages contained a pair of copyright notices that read, “Nothing on this page may be copied or reproduced without explicit permission.” There wasn’t even a system for registering blog content, like this site, until June 2020. But this is where FDN introduces a new wrinkle. Even today, the system is wholly inadequate.