Tag: copyright
Google appeals ‘disproportionate’ French copyright talks fine
Google is appealing the more than half a billion dollar fine it got slapped with by France’s competition authority in July. The penalty relates to the adtech giant’s approach toward paying news publishers for content reuse. In a statement today, Sebastien Missoffe, a Google France VP and country manager, characterized…
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Twitch dubbed Metallica’s BlizzCon performance to avoid a copyright claim
Twitch is more than a little jittery about copyright, and that's having an effect even for events where you'd think it would be safe. Metal Injection and Variety report that Twitch abruptly cut off and dubbed over Metallica's BlizzCon 202… Source
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Twitch streamers receive a flood of music copyright claims for old clips
Twitch streamers have had more than a few headaches in recent days. The company has acknowledged (via Evening Standard) a “sudden influx” of DMCA takedown requests against streamers for allegedly violating music copyright in clips captured by viewers… Source
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Book publishers sue Internet Archive for allegedly enabling piracy
When libraries around the US began closing their doors due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Internet Archive (IA) responded by creating a “National Emergency Library,” a collection of 1.4 million books from its free e-book repository Open Library. Pu… Source
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Nintendo takes legal action against US Switch hack sellers
Nintendo is back on its intellectual property flex, after it filed two lawsuits last week against Switch hackers selling software to play pirated video games. Court documents obtained by Polygon show that one lawsuit was filed in an Ohio court agains… Source
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‘Super Mario 64’ fan releases a fully playable port for PC
Super Mario 64 has been modded and emulated for years now, so playing Nintendo’s 1996 classic on a PC is certainly nothing new. Now, however, a fully-functional, native 4K port of the game has appeared for the first time, built from the ground up spe… Source
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