Digital Trends

AUGUST 3, 2022

YouTube is working on letting its creators use copyrighted music in their videos while still earning money on their videos.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Amazon received a “blistering” letter last Thursday about copyright infringement and Twitch’s nonexistent licensing deals with major music rights holders, Variety reports. The document accuses Twitch of allowing streamers to play copyrighted music without getting the proper licensing to do so.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 8, 2023

One of the groups at the forefront of this fight is the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which has filed an amicus brief in the US Supreme Court providing an overview of the copyright trolling problem. The filing is part of the Warner Chappell Music v. Nealy case, which does not. Read Entire Article

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The Verge

AUGUST 7, 2021

Several record labels are suing an ISP for copyright infringement | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. A group of major record labels has filed a new lawsuit against Charter Communications alleging that the company has failed to address its subscribers’ copyright infringement of musical works.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2020

Over the last few days, a furor has been brewing on Twitch: out of the blue, streamers started seeing copyright takedown notices appear in their inboxes. Twitch doesn’t have the tools yet to let creators bulk delete clips, let alone sift through hundreds at a time that may or may not contain copyright infringing content.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Major publishers, including Politico and Vox , and their parent companies are suing the AI startup Cohere for copyright and trademark infringement, according to the Wall Street Journal. The suit also wants to reduce the access that Cohere has to copyrighted works. The New York Times has also had beef with Perplexity.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

A new music platform, Uppbeat , aims to make it easier for YouTubers and other content creators to find quality free music to use in their videos. based co-founders of another music-licensing company, Music Vine , which has been operating for about six years. That led to deciding to build Uppbeat,” he says.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

As seen in a video featured in a Vice piece on the subject, BHPD Sgt. Billy Fair appears irritated that he is being livestreamed by Sennett Devermont. He retaliates by pulling out his phone and playing Sublime – Santeria. Later in the day, according to Devermont, the two have another.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2021

Twitch has received a “batch” of new takedown notices from music publishers over copyrighted songs in recorded streams (known as VODs), the company said in an email to streamers today. All of the claims are for VODs, and the vast majority target streamers listening to background music while playing video games or IRL streaming.”

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Today, Twitch releases Soundtrack , a new product that allows streamers to play music while they’re live — or, at least, that’s the simplest way to explain it. If the product works the way Twitch says it does, Soundtrack will be much more than just a way to play rights-cleared music while you’re broadcasting.

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The Verge

MAY 15, 2020

Club Penguin Online, one of the largest Club Penguin fan servers, shut down Friday after The Walt Disney Company issued a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice earlier this week. According to BBC , a London man involved with the server was arrested on suspicion of child pornography. In all honestly, it isn’t worth it”.

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TechSpot

MAY 17, 2024

Sony sent a letter to more than 700 companies and organizations to take a stand against copyright abuse in AI training practices. Sony Music Group is warning corporations dealing with AI, particularly generative AI ventures, that they are not authorized to use music data owned by the label to teach. Read Entire Article

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 24, 2015

So it’s little surprise that the massive proliferation of online resources has spawned a major problem: protecting website content from copyright infringement in the form of plagiarism or outright theft. Thankfully, there are preventative measures you can take to protect your web content copyrights.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 18, 2025

Last year, during the height of Brat summer, Roblox partnered with singer Charli XCX to feature her music and likeness in an in-game concert within “Dress to Impress,” a fashion game on the platform. Heyer first posted the Apple dance on June 15, 2024, and submitted a copyright application on August 30.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

Now, they are looking to help you generate bits of music by just typing some words. You just have to type in a prompt like “Calming piano music to listen to while studying” or “Funky beats for a podcast intro” to let the app generate a music clip. You type in a prompt for music and it churns out a track.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

based music platform Uppbeat has been developing a service that makes it easier for content creators to find quality free music to use in their videos published to platforms like YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, and others. based co-founders of another music-licensing company, Music Vine. million GBP ($6.15

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The spoof websites appear to have been taken down as of this writing, but the account’s header remains suspended “in response to a report from the copyright holder.”. Hello, with copyright harassment going on for the past 24hrs (4 strikes), I've decided to go private for the next few days – soon!

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

CD Projekt Red’s (CDPR) highly anticipated new roleplaying game Cyberpunk 2077 is having a bit of a rough release , and now you can add potential copyright issues while streaming to its list of launch-day hiccups. That’s even if you’re using the specific in-game setting designed to toggle off copyrighted music for this exact reason.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 4, 2021

His stream was shut down shortly thereafter, giving his viewers — and himself — the impression that he was banned for violating YouTube’s copyright policies. However, Ahgren wasn’t actually struck with a copyright strike or a suspension. you could say the switch has been going well. The whole incident was just a case of confusion. “If

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Virtual world-building platform Roblox has settled a lawsuit with the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) and is negotiating potential deals with individual music publishers. Roblox announced the news this morning, saying it was “committed to partnering with the music industry.”. Music is a major element of Roblox.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2022

First, they represent the intrinsic value of copyright ownership, and second, the emotional value of owning something scarce that’s associated with your favorite artist. Music, for example, is invisible, so it wouldn’t make sense for music NFTs to be applied the same way as NFTs for visual art, he said.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

The Bookshare library is made possible by a copyright exception: Section 121 of the United States Copyright Act, also known as the Chafee Amendment. Students outside the United States are not covered by this national copyright exception, because every country has its own copyright law.

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The Verge

JULY 6, 2021

Virtual world-building platform Roblox has signed a deal with Sony Music Entertainment. Lots of these experiences incorporate music, including through an official Roblox “boombox” item. Roblox’s popularity has earned it positive and negative attention from the music industry.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

First, it makes creating a national domestic copyright exception an obligation of countries that ratify the Treaty. Second, the Treaty allows for easier import and export of accessible versions of books and other copyrighted works. It covers music in the form of sheet music, but not audio or videos of performances.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

Founders Fund and Paradigm are leading an investment in a platform that’s aiming to wed music rights with NFTs, allowing users to buy shares of songs through the company’s marketplace, earning royalties as the music they’ve invested in gains popularity. ” No, NFTs aren’t copyrights. .

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TechSpot

MARCH 25, 2025

The file sharing service made it trivially easy for the average Joe to share and download copyrighted music with others online, threatening the livelihood of artists and record labels. Napster's claim to fame came near the turn of the century. Legal issues proved to be Napster's undoing, with the service. Read Entire Article

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Instagram has posted its guidelines for using copyrighted music during live videos, Stories, and other posts on the platform, and part of the announcement includes a new update to the notification that pops up to tell users they’re using unlicensed art in ways that violate its rules. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2023

A person using generative AI — models that generate text, images, music and more given a prompt — could infringe on someone else’s copyright through no fault of their own. But who’s on the hook for the legal fees and damages if — or rather, when — that happens? It depends.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Twitch is attempting to mend fences with a big pillar of the music industry by announcing an agreement to “work together” with the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA). The idea of this, in part, is to “address when creators inadvertently or incidentally use music in their streams,” according to a press release.

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The Verge

APRIL 29, 2021

And as is the case with many NFT sales, the Roths also retain the copyright to the image and will make 10 percent off any future sales of the NFT. Roth tells The New York Times that she’ll use the money to pay off her student loans and to donate to charity.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Twitch’s music problem has flared up again, with the company sending DMCA warning notices en masse to its massive population of streamers. The DMCA — that is, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act — allows for websites like Twitch to host user-generated content under a provision colloquially known as safe harbor.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 3, 2023

On that day, thousands of books, movies, and musical compositions entered the public domain after their extended stay in the copyright realm. On January 1, 2023, the world of creative arts went back in time. all the way to the year 1927. Many classics can be now be freely shared.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The biggest change in this version of OBS is support for the feature that Twitch debuted in Twitch Soundtrack — the ability to play music in a second track while you’re streaming to Twitch, so that it can be stripped out of your recorded broadcast, or VOD (video on demand). Though, personally, I believe that’s wishful thinking.

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The Verge

JANUARY 1, 2022

The works are now “free for all to copy, share, and build upon,” according to Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain , which tracks which copyrighted materials will become public each year. A recent law, the 2018 Music Modernization Act, standardized how early sound recordings are handled under federal copyright law.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

GitHub has reinstated an open-source tool for downloading YouTube videos, and it’s changed its policies to make similar copyright-related takedowns less likely. It alleged that the tool “was designed and is marketed” for illegally saving copyrighted music, violating Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The goal is to eventually open this feature up to everyone, as it already does with music and video rights. To claim their copyright, the image rights holder uploads a CSV file to Facebook’s Rights Manager that contains all the image’s metadata. They’ll also specify where the copyright applies and can leave certain territories out.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Hutchinson was writing about Twitch’s recent deletion of thousands of videos and clips from streamers' archives as it clamps down on the use of copyrighted music in videos.

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