Wherein The Copia Institute Tells The Copyright Office That Link Taxes Are A Good Idea Only If You Want To Kill Off Journalism

It's hard to believe that even after the huge disaster "link taxes" have been in Europe and Australia that people would push to have them in the United States, and yet here we are. This brewing bad idea has some foolish friends in...

Google Drive's Autodetector For Copyright Infringement Is Locking Up Nearly Empty Files

We've talked at length about the issues surrounding automated copyright infringement "bots" and how often those bots get the primary question they're tagged with wrong. Examples of this are legion: Viacom's bot takes down a...

'Now it belongs to everyone': Australia buys copyright to Aboriginal flag, making it free to fly

The Australian government said on Tuesday it had acquired copyright to the Aboriginal flag so it can be freely used, resolving a commercial dispute that had restricted sporting teams and Aboriginal c…

YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 – A step towards “factfulness” - Kluwer Copyright Blog

At the end of 2021, YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 (“Report”) was published. It is interesting to look at this Report against the background of the 2019 EU rules for the liability of platforms like YouTube through the famous...

PUBG Corp. At It Again: Sues Garena, Apple, And Google For Copyright Infringement Over 'Free Fire' App

It's funny sometimes how quickly a company can go from being known for making a great product to being known for being a litigious intellectual property bully. And if that doesn't accurately describe the heel-turn pulled off by the folks...

Copyright Shouldn’t Stand in the Way of Your Right to Repair

If you bought it, you own it and you can do what you want with it. That should be the end of the story—whether we’re talking about a car, a tractor, a smartphone, a computer, or really anything you buy.