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Pirated editions of John Bolton memoir have appeared online
NEW YORK (AP) — John Bolton's memoir officially comes out Tuesday after surviving a security review and a legal challenge from the Justice Department. But over the weekend, it was available in...
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Removing "Annoying" Windows 10 Features is a DMCA Violation, Microsoft Says * TorrentFreak
Microsoft has hit Ninjutsu with a DMCA notice. The company argues that tweaking and disabling of Windows 10 features violates its license.
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Lady Antebellum Is Now 'Lady A.' But So Is a Blues Singer Who's Used the Name for 20 Years
“This is my life. They’re using the name because of a Black Lives Matter incident that, for them, is just a moment in time,” says the original Lady A, a 61-year-old black singer whoR…
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Trump's Space Force loses early copyright battle to Netflix's Space Force
Alas, the silver lining to Steve Carell and Greg Daniels' new comedy.
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Instagram just threw users of its embedding API under the bus
Instagram does not provide users of its embedding API a copyright license to display embedded images on other websites, the company said in a Thursday email to Ars Technica. The announcement could come as an unwelcome surprise to users who believed that embedding images, rather than hosting them directly, provides insulation against copyright claims.
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Twitter Pulls Down Trump Campaign Video About George Floyd’s Death Over Copyright-Infringement Claim
A video posted by Donald Trump’s 2020 election campaign — decrying civil unrest in the wake of the killing of George Floyd — was removed Thursday by Twitter, citing a copyright-infringement claim. A June 3 tweet by the @TeamTrump account with the video now displays the message: “This media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner.” Twitter confirmed it received a DMCA takedown request from the owner of one of the images included in the video but the company did not specify who that was.
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The Last of Us Part 2 Trailer Accused of Copying Artist Without Permission
A songwriter has accused Naughty Dog of covering her song without permission for The Last of Us Part 2's trailer.
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Internet Users of All Kinds Should Be Concerned by a New Copyright Office Report
Outside of the beltway, people all over the United States are taking to the streets to demand fundamental change. In the halls of Congress and the White House, however, many people seem to think the biggest thing that needs to be restructured is the Internet.
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France rules Google must pay news firms for content
France's competition authority ruled on Thursday that Google must pay French publishing companies and news agencies for re-using their content.
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The National Emergency Library Is a Gift to Readers Everywhere
The Internet Archive is providing free access to a trove of 1.4 million digitized books to help ease the strain of the coronavirus crisis.
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Internet Archive offers 1.4 million copyrighted books for free online
Massive online library project is venturing into uncharted legal waters.
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J.K. Rowling relaxes license so teachers can read ‘Harry Potter’ to kids
Teachers are taking to Twitter to express their gratitude for support during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Major Book Publisher Abandons Terrible Plan to Keep New Ebooks Out of Libraries
Trying to maintain social distance while not losing your mind from boredom? Your public library’s collection of ebooks is an excellent resource, and now you have an even larger selection: One of the Big Five U.S. publishers walked back its 8-week delay on licensing new ebook releases to libraries.
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Reddit user wins case against Jehovah’s Witnesses who attempted to unmask them and sue over copyright
Last spring, a religious organization known as Jehovah's Witnesses subpoenaed Reddit, invoking the DMCA copyright law. They did this in order to learn the real-world identity of one Reddit user, aka, “Darkspliver” – who apparently at some point fell afoul of the organization's rules.
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Is Macmillan Reconsidering Its Library E-book Embargo?
Macmillan executives are seeking feedback on three new e-book licensing proposals from a select group of librarians.
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Musicians Algorithmically Generate Every Possible Melody, Release Them to Public Domain
Damien Riehl and Noah Rubin generated and saved every possible melody to a hard drive, then turned it back around to the commons.
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Dune logo unveiled at event; copyright claimants rush to remove it from the 'net
The logo for Denis Villeneuve's forthcoming Dune movie series was revealed at an event in France last night. It appears the movie's producers are rushing to remove it from the 'net, as photos of the logo are disappearing from popular Dune fan accounts with copyright enforcement notices left in their wake.
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The Public Domain Is the Rule, Copyright Is the Exception
Remember the monkey selfie? Animal rights organizations and a photographer went to court to fight over who owned the copyright in a picture where the photographer set up the camera but the animal took the pic, and great fun was had by all. But as our friends at Public Knowledge noted, maybe no one "owned" the picture.
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Operator of Popcorn Time Info Site is Liable for Piracy, Supreme Court Rules
The Danish Supreme Court has upheld a conditional prison sentence against the operator of a website that provided information on the piracy app Popcorn Time. The site itself didn't host the infringing software, but the detailed instructions it provided were enough to warrant criminal liability for copyright infringements of the site's users.
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The Supreme Court will decide software development's future in Google v. Oracle
The final steps are being made in the Google v. Oracle copyright case, which will put the fate of programming in the hands of the Supreme Court.
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