Twitter censored President Donald Trump’s account yet again yesterday, taking down a meme posted by the president that featured a rallying cry to his supporters, after the New York Times, which reportedly owns the rights to the original image, filed a copyright complaint.
Twitter and Facebook have now taken down a meme video posted to each platform by President Donald Trump, following copyright complaints.
Video game studio Naughty Dog, together with its parent company, Sony, has been flooding social media platforms with questionable copyright complaints aimed at censoring critics of their upcoming title, the widely mocked The Last of Us 2.
Google has deleted “tens of thousands” of links to news stories about topics including child rape, political corruption, and fraud since 2011, often due to bogus copyright complaints filed by people using fake identities, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
Adland, a site set up in the 1990s to archive and publish commentary on commercials and advertising, was taken offline after a questionable copyright claim by tire company Bridgestone.
Taylor Swift, Paul McCartney and members of U2 have joined hundreds of other music industry heavyweights in signing an open petition to Congress calling for reform of the Digital Music Copyright Act (DMCA).
Fox has shown some amazing gall, exploiting YouTube’s DMCA policies to protect a video clip that doesn’t even belong to them.
The superfans that run Star Wars Action News, a podcast devoted to Star Wars toys and memorabilia collecting, fell afoul of their Lucasfilm idols by purchasing and posting to Facebook a picture of an action figure which shouldn’t have been released for sale yet.
For years, a very curious corner of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act has prevented lawful owners of a digital device or product from making use of their own products in any way not explicitly permitted by the creators.
Britain’s Guardian newspaper stands accused of sending a “false” copyright notice in an attempt to “bully” a popular online ‘vlogger’ after he parodied their politically-correct content. Satirist, polemicist, and video-blogger Sargon of Akkad hit back at the Guardian after receiving a notice via YouTube that
