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

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In recent years, these have included the publication of a transparency report documenting how various legal policies affect the site’s content. Reddit’s responses to DMCA takedown notices and the site’s handling of excessive copyright infringement are listed separately in the “legal removals” section.

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Reddit Reports Surge in Copyright Takedown Notices and User Bans

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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. Since then, the situation has changed.

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

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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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3 Count: False Takedown

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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 copyright notices against other YouTubers. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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3 Count: Noisy Hill

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The Notorious Markets report is an annual report by the USTR that identifies international markets that enable piracy. The USTR invites input from various stakeholders, which is what the RIAA is providing in this report. 2: Lawyer: Cardi B ‘Humiliated’ Man with Racy Image on Mixtape.

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3 Count: Frequent Flyer

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First off today, Kim Lyons at The Verge reports that American Airlines has filed a lawsuit against the travel tips website The Points Guy alleging that the site has violated their copyrights, trademarks and the terms of service of their frequent flyer program. 2: Nintendo Copyright Strikes That Pokemon First Person Shooter.

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Google Addresses Scraped and Spun Content

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He said that, if Google does make a mistake and such a site ranks well, to please report it via their spam reporting tool. What rights do creators have when, without their work, the new creation could not exist, but it’s not similar enough to the original to be a direct copyright infringement?