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YouTube unveils AI-powered tool to cleanly remove copyrighted music

TechSpot

YouTube's "Erase Song" feature lets users precisely zap copyrighted tunes from their clips while keeping all the other audio intact. YouTube chief Neal Mohan hyped the new tool on X/Twitter, saying it will help easily remove copyright-claimed music from videos while preserving everything else. Read Entire Article

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Music publishers sue Twitter for $250 million over copyright infringement claims

TechSpot

The Tennesse lawsuit alleges that Twitter "fuels its business with countless infringing copies of musical compositions, violating Publishers' and others' exclusive rights under copyright law." Read Entire Article

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BTS fan Twitter accounts say they’re being targeted by copyright trolls

The Verge

In the past several days, a number of headers, profile pictures, and tweets have disappeared across the wide network of BTS fan Twitter accounts. Per the owner’s screenshots, the attackers appear to have reposted the account’s header on a spoof website in a backdated post, then claimed to Twitter that the image was their own.

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Twitch streamers are getting blindsided by years-old copyright notices

The Verge

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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Twitter suspends Sci-Hub account amid Indian court case

The Verge

Twitter has suspended the account of Sci-Hub, a website that provides free access to paywalled academic papers. Twitter suspends the account of Sci-Hub pic.twitter.com/XQfNYmR1Ra — Catalin Cimpanu (@campuscodi) January 8, 2021. Twitter did not immediately respond to The Verge ’s request for comment. Sci-Hub’s homepage. |

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College student sues Proctorio after source code copyright claim

The Verge

After Johnson found out that he’d need to use the software for two of his classes, Johnson dug into the source code of Proctorio’s Chrome extension and made a lengthy Twitter thread criticizing its practices — including links to excerpts of the source code, which he’d posted on Pastebin.

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Twitter removes thousands of accounts linked to Chinese Xinjiang propaganda

The Verge

Twitter has removed a total of 2,160 accounts linked to Chinese regional and state propaganda campaigns, the social network has announced as part of its latest data release on misinformation campaigns. 2/ A pro-Tanzanian government network adversarially leveraged copyright reporting to harass activists. The scheme was fascinating.

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