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Is Your Website Published or Unpublished?

Plagiarism Today

It deals with whether Amazon and/or CCA infringed FDN’s copyrights by scraping descriptions from their website for use as part of Amazon’s product listings. That question is whether the descriptions were “published” or “unpublished” according to the law when they were put on FDN’s website. According to the U.S.

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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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Facebook’s Plagiarism Problems Are Deeper Than You Realize

Plagiarism Today

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). A Long-Running Problem.

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Pro-Plex News Articles on Facebook Deleted By Markscan On Behalf of Plex

TorrentFreak

On January 1, 2024, TorrentFreak published a review of the wrongful DMCA notices filed against us in 2023, either directly via email or at Google demanding deindexing of our articles. Our small request for 2024 was not unreasonable: stop sending us bogus copyright notices. ” Interesting.

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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). Of course, The Nation published the juiciest details from the memoir: Ford’s reasons for pardoning his predecessor, Richard Nixon.

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Foreign Works, US Rights: The 7th Circle of Copyright Hell?

Copyright Lately

Nineties grunge-rock band Nirvana, already embroiled in a long-running legal battle against fashion company Marc Jacobs over its “happy face” t-shirt designs , now finds itself on the less happy end of a new copyright infringement lawsuit worthy of Dante’s trip through the underworld. copyright law. on November 16, 1949.

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

TorrentFreak

Over the years we’ve published thousands of articles on copyright law, from how it works in theory to its application in full-blown lawsuits. But other copyright disputes, where infringement isn’t so obvious, can trigger new complexity and polarized legal opinions. Spoilers: Are They Copyright Infringement?