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Copyfraud: Disney's bogus complaint over toy photo gets a fan kicked off...
Justin Kozisek, a staffer for the Star Wars Action News podcast, bought a $6.94 Rey toy at Walmart and posted a photo of it to Facebook, and he and his SWAN colleagues were surprised to get a DMCA...
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Some countries learned from America's copyright mistakes: TPP will undo that
America's 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act made it easy to censor the Internet: under the statute, you can make virtually anything disappear by claiming, without evidence, that it infringes your...
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Anne Frank's diary is in the public domain; editors aren't co-authors
Anne Frank's father, Otto, edited Frank's diary before publishing it. He also endowed two foundations -- one Swiss, one Dutch -- to administer her legacy. (more…)
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Sony filed a trademark application for "Let's Play"
"Let's play" videos are a hugely popular online genre in which gamers narrate their playthroughs of games that excite and challenge them. (more…)
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Photographer sues Getty Images for $1B because they're charging for pix she...
Jamie writes, "A photographer filed on Monday a $1 billion copyright infringement suit in New York against Getty Images' American arm, alleging that the company is sending out letters demanding...
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Lawsuit: Getty Images copyfrauded 47,000 photos from indie press agency Zuma
Photographer, public domain enthusiast, and national treasure Carol M Highsmith is suing Getty Images for $1B because they took the photos she'd donated to the Library of Congress and started asking...
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Samsung abuses copyright to censor satirical exploding phone Grand Theft Auto...
Samsung's got problems: its Galaxy Note devices are bursting into flames, and have been banned from the skies. (more…)
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CBC threatens podcast app makers, argues that RSS readers violate copyright
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation publishes several excellent podcasts, notably the As It Happens feed; like every podcast in the world, these podcasts are available via any podcast app in the...
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Oakland elementary school students resist Caltrans' insistence on taking...
Rogue archivist Rick Prelinger writes, "Oakland students planned to paint a mural on a dark freeway underpass in their city. The project is stalled because Caltrans asserts copyright to murals on its...
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Desperate Comcast commits copyfraud in bid to silence its critics
The good people at Fight for the Future established OPERATION COMCASTROTURF to help you figure out if your stolen identity was used to file fake anti-net-neutrality comments with the FCC, but Comcast...
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EFF will defend McMansion Hell from Zillow's copyfraudulent bullying
McMansion Hell is a hilarious blog where Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute graduate student Kate Wagner posts scorching critiques of the architecture of McMansions -- but this week, Wagner announced...
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EFF trounces Zillow, McMansion Hell will return from copyfraud purgatory
Update: Zillow has dropped all its absurd copyright claims after hearing from EFF and McMansion Hell is coming back! The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published its letter to Zillow, explaining...
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"We Shall Overcome" has overcome copyfraud and is now unambiguously public...
A group of activist lawyers/documentarians have made a vocation of fighting copyfraudsters in the courts, first forcing Warner Chapell to relinquish its bogus claim over "Happy Birthday" and then...
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After London builders' bid to remove a complaint from Mumsnet failed, a...
Annabelle Narey hired a London construction firm called BuildTeam to do some work, which she found very unsatisfactory (she blames them for a potentially lethal roof collapse in a bedroom); so she did...
View ArticleEU hijacking: self-driving car data will be copyrighted...by the manufacturer
Today, the EU held a routine vote on regulations for self-driving cars, when something decidedly out of the ordinary happened... The autonomous vehicle rules contained a clause that affirmed that...
View ArticleCanal+ commits copyfraud, gets Banksy's painting-shredding video removed from...
In October, a delightful prank by the artist Banksy involved a painting of his shredding itself shortly after a Sotheby's bidder committed to spending £1.04m to buy it. Banksy shot his own video of...
View ArticleSony won't let you post "crap recordings" of a few seconds of your own...
Back when Sony's fraudulent copyright claims resulted in a 47 second recording of pianist James Rhodes playing Bach, apologists argued that Sony and Youtube's copyright bots couldn't be expected to...
View ArticleLionsgate accused of abusing YouTube's contentID system to remove criticism...
Entertainment giant Lionsgate is allegedly using contentID, YouTube's internal copyright arbitation process, to remove criticism of its movies. (Note that "Angry Joe", the author of the viral video...
View ArticleBlackmailers use false copyright claims to shut down victims' Youtube...
Youtube's ContentID system allows rightsholders to upload video and audio and block videos that contain their works (or put ads on those videos and take the revenue they generate), and to have the...
View ArticleStarz abuses the DMCA to remove EFF's tweet about Starz abusing the DMCA
Torrentfreak published an article disclosing the fact that screeners of American Gods had leaked online ahead of their air date (they did not make the screeners available, nor did they link to any of...
View ArticleHow Warner Chappell was able to steal revenues from 25% of a popular...
Oliver Brotherhood is a British vlogger with over 3 million subscribers who has produced a string of very popular Minecraft-related videos under the name Mumbo Jumbo; yesterday, in the space of two...
View ArticlePorno copyright troll sentenced to 14 years: "a wrecking ball to trust in the...
For years, Paul Hansmeier terrorized internet users through his copyright trolling racket Prenda Law, evading the law through shell companies and fraud, until, finally, he was brought to justice and...
View ArticleSony's copyright bots remove a band's own release of its new video
The Sheffield-based experimental music act 65daysofstatic has a new album coming out in September, called "Replicr, 2019." Today, the band began its launch publicity by releasing a video from the...
View ArticleAn Indian research university has assembled 73 million journal articles...
The JNU Data Depot is a joint project between rogue archivist Carl Malamud (previously), bioinformatician Andrew Lynn, and a research team from New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University: together, they...
View ArticleRaising legal funds to defend an online sf shared world that's been stolen by...
SCP Foundation is an online shared world whose members create delightful fiction, movies, games and other media. It's a sprawling, global, friendly phenomenon, licensed under Creative Commons. But its...
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White nationalists who got a $2.5m payout from UNC abuse the DMCA to censor...
T. Greg Doucette is the North Carolina litigator who sleuthed out the incredible, bizarre details of the decision of the University of North Carolina's Republican-appointed governors to hand a group...
View ArticleThe lawyer who caught UNC giving $2.5m to white nationalists orders the white...
T Greg Doucette is the lawyer who put the pieces together on the University of North Carolina's $2.5m handout to the white nationalist group the Sons of Confederate Veterans, then found and published...
View ArticleYoutube copyright trolls Adrev claim to own a homemade MIDI rendition of...
Chris Knight recorded a video of the bees in his backyard and wanted to accompany it with a rendition of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's 1899 composition "The Flight of the Bumblebee." Mindful of the...
View ArticleYoutube's Content ID has become the tool of choice for grifty copyfraudsters...
Last year's EU Copyright Directive will require online services to install upload filters similar to Youtube's Content ID system, a $100m, voluntary tool that allows rightsholders to claim video and...
View ArticleWarner claims ownership over the numbers 36 and 50, and demonetizes Youtube...
Warner subsidiary Otter Media has a division called Fullscreen ("a social content company for talent and brands") that has been demonetizing Youtubers' videos that use the numbers 36 and 50 (and...
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