That thing last month where the LAPD had their lawyers send a bogus DMCA takedown request to some people selling "Fuck the LAPD" t-shirts, and the t-shirt people's lawyer sent back a letter that literally just said, "LOL, no"? Well, here comes act 2: the "LOL, no" lawyers have sent a 🔥scathing🔥 letter to the other lawyers asking why they shouldn't seek attorney's fees.
Чи можна отримати бан каналу на Twitch, якщо стрімити ритм-ігри серій: Guitar Hero, Rock Band чи Just Dance? Про DMCA та захист авторських прав на Twitch.
:blobsweats: Garry’s Mod faces deluge of Nintendo-related DMCA takedown notices
― @engadget
「 Facepunch Studios has announced on Steam that it's removing 20 years' worth of Nintendo-related workshop items for its sandbox game Garry's Mod to comply with the Japanese company's demands 」
🚫 Nintendo targets Switch-emulation chat servers, decryption tools with DMCA | Ars Technica
「 Nintendo continues to use DMCA requests to halt projects it says aid in the piracy of Switch content. Discord has shut down the discussion servers associated with two prominent Yuzu forks—Suyu and Sudachi—while Github has removed a couple of projects related to the decryption of Switch software for use with emulators or hacked consoles 」
I got my first #DMCA notice from my ISP that didn't have any information about the infringing content at all. I know this was from using a streaming site (my lil home server is down) over https, so all they know is that i connected to the domain.
this is what i would call "a bluff" and "not compliant with 17 USC § 512(c)(3)(A)" (a domain is not a single online site)
New York Times files copyright takedown requests against Wordle clones, including games that use includes its “5x6 grid” and “green tiles to indicate correct guesses.”
Created in 2021 by Welsh engineer Josh Wardle as a gift for his wife, it was later sold to The New York Times for $1 million.
Players can play through a subscription to the times or the game itself for a $50 annual subscription fee.
#NYT#Wordle#Copyright#GitHub#DMCA: "The New York Times has filed a series of copyright takedown requests against Wordle clones and variations in which it asserts not just ownership over the Wordle name but over the broad concepts and mechanics of the word game, which includes its “5x6 grid” and “green tiles to indicate correct guesses.”
The Times filed at least three DMCA takedown requests with coders who have made clones of Wordle on GitHub. These include two in January and, crucially, a new DMCA filed this week against Chase Wackerfuss, the coder of a repository called “Reactle,” which cloned Wordle in React JS (JavaScript). (The full takedown is embedded at the bottom of this article.)
The most recent takedown request is critical because it not only goes after Reactle but anyone who has forked Reactle to create a different spinoff game; an archive of the Reactle code repository shows that it was forked 1,900 times to create a diverse set of games and spinoffs. These include Wordle clones in dozens of languages, crossword versions of Wordle, emoji and bird versions of world, poker and AI spinoffs, etc."
lmao. I got a DMCA takedown notice for my Colordle game yesterday ( https://colordle.lina.garden ), along with everyone else who forked the Reactle repo. today 404 is reporting on how bullshit it is! 🤣🖕
A volte mi chiedo se ci siano o ci fanno... A prescindere dalla causa ridicola, dato che l'emulatore non fornisce firmware né nessun genere di codice protetto da copyright, ma: "confisca e distruzione dei dischi rigidi degli sviluppatori in modo tale da assicurare la distruzione dell’emulatore;" dimostra una totale ignoranza di come funziona il software libero. Magari vinceranno, perché #DMCA è una forma di bullismo legalizzato, ma eticamente fanno schifo. https://www.hdblog.it/nintendo/articoli/n578880/nintendo-denuncia-yuzu-switch-emulatore/ #Nintendo#yuzu
'Media outlets The Intercept Media Inc., Raw Story Media Inc., and Alternet Media Inc. filed a pair of lawsuits against OpenAI Inc. in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday alleging the firm removed author information from articles in data sets used to train its generative AI.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/the-intercept-raw-story-sue-openai-under-digital-copyright-law The news outlets argue that OpenAI and Microsoft Corp., a co-defendant, intentionally stripped authorship titles and other “copyright management information” from stories used to train ChatGPT, a violation of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The AI chatbot has since produced verbatim or near verbatim copyrighted articles, without the corresponding credit, the complaints allege.'
@danneidle sorry to hear you are having problems with this. it's not new, it's been around for two decades now. the problem is that the law is completely biased in favour of those who even claim to be #copyright owners. I wrote about it in my book Walled Culture (free download - https://walledculture.org/the-book/) back in 2022. copyright needs to be radically reformed. #dmca
I just realized that PS1 and PS2 game discs didn't have any DRM. You can easily create ISO files using image burning software like Brasero or k3b (for Linux).
I am definitely going to start collecting them again and emulate the games I couldn't play back in the day.
Since I am not circumventing any DRM and I also own the game discs, I am probably still compliant with the DMCA and it shouldn't technically be considered "piracy" either.
I wonder if any lawyers can confirm the validity of this. If true, this would probably make PlayStation and PlayStation 2 emulation totally acceptable.
Basically, an Uzbekistan TV channel used part of a film by Blender Studio. Another artist also embedded part of that same film (both legal under CC license).
The TV company's rant-a-scam "copyright protection" agency semi-automatically reports the artist's video to YouTube as illegal copy of its TV content, despite holding no copyright to do so, and wins. The artist had to risk a channel strike to appeal - and still lost.
YouTube DMCA nonsense did it again. They got a takedown notice for the OBVIOUSLY parody channel There I Ruined It and that channel is now basically defunct. Parody is protected by fair use, but who are we kidding here.
#DMCA is a terrible law, and it incentivizes media platforms to just obey whoever has more money. It unfairly favors incumbents, and renders fair-use arguments moot as platforms like YouTube have zero incentives to rule in favor of indie creators.
But the principle that "Pseudo-#IP Rules Shouldn't Block Free Speech" has the nice side effect of highlighting what's wrong with this otherwise unrelated effort:
Про DMCA на Twitch. Чи можна отримати бан від Twitch, якщо стрімити ігри серій: Guitar Hero чи Rock Band? (tayemnakimnata.com) Ukrainian
Чи можна отримати бан каналу на Twitch, якщо стрімити ритм-ігри серій: Guitar Hero, Rock Band чи Just Dance? Про DMCA та захист авторських прав на Twitch.