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Twitch will give streamers a bit more info on why they were banned

The Verge

Back in 2020 , the company issued waves of DMCA takedown notices to creators without giving specific clarity on which videos were in violation of copyright. Twitch has certainly struggled with giving streamers clarity on content issues before.

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One tweet tried to identify a cop — then five people were charged with felony harassment

The Verge

“If anyone knows who this b h is throw his info under this tweet.”. The now-deleted message included a photo of a masked on-duty police officer with a request that “If anyone knows who this b h is throw his info under this tweet.” A recent suit claims retweets can count as copyright infringement, but it’s not yet resolved.

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Google wins court battle with Genius over song lyrics

The Verge

Genius sued Google in 2019, arguing that Google was scraping lyrics from its website in violation of Genius’ copyright. It tried to demonstrate that Google was scraping info from its website by putting watermarks on its lyrics, which it said then appeared in Google searches but without any link back or attribution to Genius.

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Lame spams of the day: More people sending me money

Robert Weiner

Here's your sign-in info: Sign in email address: robert@rlweiner.com. © Copyright 2011 Online Payment Center, South House, Black Prince Road, US SE1 7SJ. Sender: Payment Center (no-reply@jarmo.dk). Subject: Your Payment History. Text: Welcome to Online Payment Center. Please check Your Payment History in the payment tool.

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Vivino raises $155 million for wine recommendation and marketplace app

TechCrunch

So it means taking a picture of bottle of wine, then having people just entering info every single day to fill it. Photo Copyright Nader Khouri 2018. . “There is no aggregated data anywhere. So we’ve basically built this data totally from scratch. Vivino wine app in San Francisco.

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Happy Halloween from the Halloween Video Blog Festival

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, for Halloween, I went searching on youtube for some Halloween videos and all I saw what looked copyrighted material and some crap. He uses some music that a group has authorized for remix - yet another idea for music that you can use without breaking copyright laws. Imogen Heap Info For Remixers. Music by Imogen Heap.

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Spawning lays out plans for letting creators opt out of generative AI training

TechCrunch

Within the span of a few months, several lawsuits have emerged over generative AI tech from companies including OpenAI and Stability AI, brought by plaintiffs who allege that copyrighted data — mostly art — was used without their permission to train the generative models.

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