copyright
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I Want That On A T-Shirt
Artists on Twitter say that their work is regularly stolen by armies of bots that generate t-shirts from popular designs”and they’ve got the receipts to prove it.
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Eminem’s Publisher Sues Spotify, Says It Pretended It Didn’t Know Who Held Rights To ‘Lose Yourself’
Rapper Eminem’s publisher is suing Spotify, claiming that the music streaming giant is infringing on hundreds of his copyrights as well as “challenging the constitutionality of a recently passed music licensing law,” the Hollywood Reporter wrote on Wednesday.
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YouTube Combats Copyright Trolls With Content ID Policy Changes
YouTube’s copyright protection system is kind of a mess. YouTube places much of the burden on content creators to dispute copyright claims, while rights holders can slap strikes or even seize revenue generated by videos after filing a claim, often before the YouTuber even has a chance to respond.
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Scribd’s Copyright Robocops Are Automatically Taking Down The Mueller Report
Scribd has become a popular place for people to upload PDF documents to share with the world. But the hosting site’s algorithms aren’t handling the release of the Mueller Report very well, according to a new report from Quartz. Scribd’s robots are flagging the document as a copyrighted work, despite the fact that, as a…