TechSpot

JANUARY 29, 2025

TorrentFreak reports that when it came to new measures, site blocking was heavily pushed as an effective remedy that the US has been lacking. The symposium brought together prosecutors, industry representatives, and anti-piracy experts to discuss the latest piracy trends and potential solutions. Read Entire Article

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Engadget

MARCH 31, 2025

Hollywood studios would not enforce copyright on these videos. As it turns out, major movie studios have actually been making money from the videos, according to reporting by Deadline. The scheme worked sort of like a mob shakedown.

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Engadget

APRIL 1, 2025

The trend had raised concerns, yet again, about the legality of using copyrighted work as training data for artificial intelligence. Users simply have to upload the photo they want to use and then instruct ChatGPT in natural language to create a Ghibli-style version of it.

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TechSpot

JULY 4, 2021

In 2019, Nintendo sued Storman as the owner of RomUniverse, a site they purported was illegally distributing copyrighted Nintendo games. The California Federal Court ultimately awarded Nintendo $35,000 for each of their 49 games available on the site and an extra $400,000 in trademark damages. Storman chose to represent himself.

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The Verge

MARCH 17, 2021

Twitch announced in an email to streamers that the site has added new tools today to help creators see where they stand with takedown requests and copyright strikes. It’s a smart move because it gives streamers better tools to play on the right side of copyright law. (If

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The Verge

JANUARY 8, 2021

Publishers are unhappy about their content being distributed for free and argue that the site infringes on their copyright. In December, academic publishers Elsevier, Wiley, and the American Chemical Society filed a suit with the Delhi High Court, asking Indian internet service providers to block Sci-Hub and similar site Libgen.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Monday night, Congress approved an over $2 trillion government spending and coronavirus relief package that included a handful of controversial copyright and trademark measures. More importantly, there’s nothing in the text of the bill that suggests platforms’ moderation of everyday copyright violations would need to change.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 2, 2012

The update site is instant-acrobat-upgrade.com, not adobe.com. McAfee's site advisor says it's queued for evaluation. Copyright 2012 Adobe Systems Incorporated. Since Adobe seems to update Acrobat weekly, this message seems plausible. The sender's address is @newsletter.northerntool.com. So I'm assuming this is malware.

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The Verge

APRIL 18, 2022

Users of privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo have been unable to site search the domains of some well-known pirated media sites recently, as reported by TorrentFreak on Friday. DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg called it “completely made up,” tweeting over the weekend that this is the result of a site operator error.

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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. Yesterday, the Microsoft-owned software repository reversed its removal of YouTube-dl, which lets users save local copies of streaming videos from YouTube and many other sites.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2014

Copyright laws can be confusing and so mired in legalese that they're almost incomprehensible. Creative Commons has tried to make copyright law easier to understand and allow content creators to share what they've created, and to allow other people to use the content they've created for their own purposes.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 30, 2021

But Yuga Labs owns the copyright on its ape images, and PAYC and PHAYC have were booted from OpenSea apparently for violating its rules against copyright infringement. But there’s very little legal precedent surrounding NFTs at all, let alone their copyright implications specifically.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 20, 2020

First, Twitch is telling streamers that some of their content has been identified as violating copyright and that instead of letting streamers file counterclaims, it’s deleting the content; second, the company is telling streamers it’s giving them warnings, as opposed to outright copyright strikes.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Also on her agenda is how copyright law and fair use apply to AI. A website redesign might feel daunting, but don’t let an unattractive site hold you back. Nonprofit attorney Kimberly Pendo, a founding member of Chicago Law Partners, is going to discuss the issues we all need to understand. How do we stay on track and meet our goals?

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2022

American Airlines has filed a lawsuit against travel tips site The Points Guy, claiming the site has violated the terms of use of its frequent flyer program by offering an app that lets users track airline miles from multiple airlines in one place. The airline says the logins allow The Points Guy to “invade American’s servers”.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 18, 2025

To curb the influx of "non-human traffic" scraping the site for training data, Wikipedia is taking a proactive approach: serving up its data directly to AI developers. This has included copyrighted works, a contentious issue with artists. You're not the only one who turns to Wikipedia for quick facts.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

For the past three years, UpCodes and its founders have been entangled in a copyright lawsuit filed by the International Code Council (ICC). UpCodes’ building code database is at the center of the lawsuit, because it contains material the ICC claims copyright on. ” Can the law be copyrighted?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

In response, many web sites are going on strike. Sites includes Wikipedia , Reddit , BoingBoing , and Global Voices are “going dark” and will black out the Global Voices Advocacy site for 12 hours on January 18 beginning at 8 am. Current copyright laws are occasionally misused in the U.S, How the Strike Works.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

To spread their fake goods on platforms like Facebook and Amazon, counterfeiters take advantage of a legal provision that protects those companies from user-generated copyright infringement. Merchandising sites can be particularly bad, he said, willing to print anything a user uploads. The DMCA, he says, was made for a different era.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Prior to the update, YouTube says these videos only received ads in limited circumstances, like if they were monetized by a record label as part of a copyright claim. Advertising is big business for YouTube and its parent company, Google, with the video site generating $5 billion in the last quarter alone.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

The system, which is designed to navigate the complexities of copyright claims while also fairly compensating artists, offers an alternative to existing free music platforms, including YouTube’s own Audio Library and Creative Commons’ legal music for videos, for example. Browsing Uppbeat’s catalog is easy, too.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The issue that Soundtrack is solving is pretty simple: if music is copyrighted, you can’t use it while you’re streaming unless you have the rights to those songs. If you do happen to use copyrighted music during a broadcast, there’s not a whole lot Twitch can necessarily do because it’s being played live.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 11, 2011

First, there's what looks like a reversed smiley face in the subject (maybe it was supposed to be a copyright symbol). We are continually improving our Web site to better serve you. This one is kind of funny. Then there's the tortured grammar in the first sentence. ex: Internet Explorer 9, Firefox 3, Safari 3, Opera 9).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

” At this point that’s all we know, but the site is currently allowing users to secure their username on the Zeen homepage. The site is consistently being reviewed by White House staff and petitions that receive more than 25,000 signatures are guaranteed a response from the Obama Administration. HopeMob :: hopemob.org.

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TechSpot

JUNE 2, 2020

The Falcon Rocket 9, which carried the manned Crew Dragon capsule, was just 17 minutes away from launch on Thursday, May 28, when teams from NASA and SpaceX decided the risk posed to equipment by thunderstorms over the Cape Canaveral site was too great. The Demo-2 mission was rescheduled for.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2010

And where you stand on the discussion of copyright, digital rights, online content sharing and intellectual property? Facebook in Online Privacy Breach; Applications Transmitting Identifying Information – WSJ.com – "Many of the most popular applications, or "apps," on the social-networking site Facebook Inc.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2011

For individuals to hold offenders responsible for using your copyrighted content without permission would take legal intervention. But if your nonprofit values its intellectual property, use secondary services such as a privately hosted blog, a video site or a photo site like Flickr with strong intellectual property protection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2013

It is important to respect copyright laws. Flickr Creative Commons – Flickr is a photo site but it offers creative commons licensing and you can use it combined with keyword searches to find an image. Here’s a round up of resources and advice. That’s not the definition of fair use.

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The Verge

JUNE 14, 2020

But on June 1st, publishers Hachette, Penguin Random House, Wiley, and HarperCollins sued the Internet Archive for copyright violations. The Authors Guild said in March that the Internet Archive was “acting as a piracy site” that violates authors’ rights to their works. “We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

First launched in January 2021, Uppbeat helps to eliminate the headaches that come with copyright claims on music used within creator content. Leveraging a freemium model, Uppbeat allows creators to sign up for an account that provides access to around 50% of the site’s catalog and provides 10 downloads per month.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The update has many other fixes, including one for an issue where some copyrighted songs would play even when a player had toggled a setting to disable copyrighted music from playing. Thank you, @CDPROJEKTRED [link] — Liana Ruppert (@DirtyEffinHippy) December 11, 2020.

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Robert Weiner

MARCH 29, 2013

This site lists them as malware delivery devices but doesn't elaborate on the threat. Copyright © 2013 KeyCorp®. I received seven copies of two versions of this spam. Plain text, no formatting, no logos. Here they are: Senders : Georgina_Stevens@key.com. Gavin_Deal@key.com. Ana_Bowers@key.com. Denise_Fish@key.com. All Rights Reserved.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

copyright law, our volunteers scanned the books they wanted to read and then were able to upload them to Bookshare so that others could enjoy these books as well. The titles had to be hunted out across the country by Bookshare volunteers from their libraries, through used book sites and in eBay auctions. Using a provision of U.S.

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Byte Technology

MAY 27, 2016

Too many people who hire an individual designer or firm to build and launch their website often don’t pay special attention to the fine print of a contract and are shocked to learn—usually after the site goes live—that they have less control over changes, edits and general administration than they thought. The problem with this relationship?

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

While emulators are generally legal, and some sites ( like Internet Archive ) host abandonware you can play in a browser, it’s extremely unlikely that Nintendo, which is well-known for cracking down on sites hosting ROMs and pirated content, would let people download copies of its most-loved games over free browser extensions.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 11, 2007

We just did a site upgrade on Bookshare.org : our third in as many months. can easily see which books have global permissions, which are required when we can't rely on our copyright exemption (which only works inside the U.S.). Among the dozens of improvements in this update are two that I'm particularly jazzed about.

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