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Are You Sure That’s Free? Content from Others in Your Social Media

McBayer IP Blog

Posted In copyright , Intellectual Property , Name, Image, and Likeness , Social Media Big business owners, small business owners, entrepreneurs, and influencers are all looking for boosts to their reputations that drive traffic and revenue their way.

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Company ‘Hijacks’ Blender’s CC BY-Licensed Film, YouTube Strikes User

TorrentFreak

The team at Blender Studio drive Blender development by providing help and training courses to Blender users in an open environment, sharing everything in public and making all content available under free licenses. “The content in my video is owned by Blender Studio who has the full copyright.

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Sky Italia Targets Pirate Streaming App VancedFlix Through GitHub

TorrentFreak

The app openly promotes the availability of free content from paid services such as Netflix, HBO Max, and Disney+ , although the operators suggest that legal responsibility for the streamed content lies with third-party services. ” Sky Italia Takes Action Copyright holders tend to see the legalities quite differently.

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MANGA Plus Invites Users to Confess Piracy & Name Most-Used Pirate Sites

TorrentFreak

It’s proven popular with fans for the range of free content in multiple languages but for a number of reasons it fails to compete with pirate sites. For example, readers of many series are met with a message stating, Our current license prohibits us from publishing the in-between chapters , a problem pirate sites never face.

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27th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Symposium: From the DMCA to the DSA: Keynote and copyright interactions

43(B)log

Most content that is taken down is for copyright reasons: why not talk about copyright along with other content moderation? As I say, the copyright industries hated Content ID so much they made it a universal law.] 17: more money in authors’ pockets by requiring licenses is the aim.