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

TorrentFreak

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.

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Google Addresses Scraped and Spun Content

Plagiarism Today

He said that, if Google does make a mistake and such a site ranks well, to please report it via their spam reporting tool. In a similar question at 17:05 in the same video, another user asked, “Why Google is not taking action on copy or spun web stories? Can you check on Discover?”.

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3 Count: Grand Theft Copyright

Plagiarism Today

1: Ex-White House Photographer Sued for Copyright Over His Own Photo: ‘You Can’t Make This Up’. First off today, Bevan Hurley at The Independent reports that former White House photographer Pete Souza says that he is facing legal threats over his use of a photograph he took on his own website. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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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).

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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.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (May 6- May 12)

SpicyIP

The impugned order was passed under Section 21(1) of the Act assuming abandonment of the patent on the grounds that the petitioner had not complied with the requirements of reply to First Examination Report within stipulated time. The respondent argued that Section 117A does not include an appeal against order passed under Section 21.

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Records Labels and ISP Seek Summary Judgments in Piracy Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

Copyright Claims Should be Dismissed’ Bright House requests the court to dismiss the only remaining copyright infringement claim. This accuses the ISP of contributory infringement, which means that the company induced, caused or materially contributed to the piracy activities of its subscribers.

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