Sony Thinks It Can Charge An 'Administrative Fee' For Fair Use
Mitch Stoltz, over at EFF, has been writing about a ridiculous situation in which Sony Music has been using ContentID to take down fair use videos — and then to ask for money to put them back up. As...
View ArticleYouTube Takes Down Ariana Grande's Manchester Benefit Concert On Copyright...
At a time when Europe is pushing for much greater filtering and takedowns, it’s worth a reminder that these kinds of systems pretty regularly takedown perfectly legitimate content — either content...
View ArticleSensing Blood In The Water, All Major Labels Sue Cox For 'Ignoring' Their...
For years, we’ve noted that the major record labels have been drooling over the idea that the DMCA might allow them to force ISPs to kick people entirely off the internet based on mere accusations of...
View ArticleMusic Groups Waste No Time Using Australia's New Copyright Law To Shut Down...
Late last year, after Australia proposed amending its copyright laws, which included some subtle language changes, the country approved the amendments and we immediately warned that this would be...
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Insanity (AKA Copyright Statutory Damages) Rules: Cox Hit With $1 Billion...
We’ve highlighted the many problems with the various lawsuits against Cox Communications arguing that the company should be held liable for failing to wave a magic wand and stop all piracy from...
View ArticleSony Music Says DNS Service Is Implicated In Copyright Infringement At The...
One of the characteristics of maximalist copyright companies is their limitless sense of entitlement. No matter how much copyright is extended, be it in duration, or breadth of application, they want...
View ArticleNot How Any Of This Works: Mariah Carey Sued Over Title Of Song
You may have heard that, on Friday, Mariah Carey and Sony Music were sued by a guy named Andy Stone (pretty sure a different Andy Stone than the one who leads communications for Facebook) for allegedly...
View ArticleDude Who Filed Ridiculous Lawsuit Over Title Of Mariah Carey’s Most Famous...
Back in June we wrote about an absolutely ridiculous lawsuit filed by a guy named Andy Stone, but who performs as Vince Vance and the Valiants, against Mariah Carey, claiming copyright infringement...
View ArticleAnother German Court Says The DNS Service Quad9 Is Implicated In Any...
Back in September 2021 Techdirt covered an outrageous legal attack by Sony Music on Quad9, a free, recursive, anycast DNS platform. Quad9 is part of the Internet’s plumbing: it converts domain names to...
View ArticleRecording Industry Forces Important Video Downloading Tool’s Website Offline
When will the legacy entertainment industry get it through their thick skulls that recording content is legal. We’ve done this. We’ve done it at the highest level. Tools that have substantial...
View ArticleGood And Bad News On Attempts To Implicate DNS Services For Copyright...
Two years ago Techdirt wrote about an attempt by Sony Music in Germany to implicate Quad9, a free anycast DNS platform (Cloudflare has technical details on what “recursive” means in this context), in...
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