Totally Bogus DMCA Takedowns From Giant Publishers Completely Nuke Book Review Blog Off The Internet

Just as we're in the midst of a Greenhouse series all about SOPA, copyright industry lobbyists, and former copyright industry lawyers now running the Copyright Office are conspiring to make copyright law worse and to favor Hollywood and give the...

Farmers seek jury trial against John Deere for anti repair practices

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EFF takes on DMCA provision criminalizing open speech, indirectly forwarding ‘Right to Repair'

The EFF is going after Section 1201 of the DMCA which currently criminalizes any attempts to speak about legally acquired copyrighted material. If repealed, it would boost Right to Repair movement.

EFF Asks Appeals Court to Rule DMCA Anti-Circumvention Provisions Violate First Amendment

Washington D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asked a federal appeals court to block enforcement of onerous copyright rules that violate the First Amendment and criminalize certain speech about technology, preventing researchers, tech...

DMCA To The Rescue!

In NFTs and Web Archiving I pointed out that the blockchain data representing an NFT of an image such as this CryptoPunk is typically a li...

Amazon DMCA Strikes Video About 'New World' Bug, Reinstates Video, Promises Review Of Process

It was only a few months back that Amazon released its MMO game New World. While there was a bunch of hype around the game, it was met critically with mostly a collective "meh". While the lack of exuberant reviews focused mostly on bland...

UEFA DMCA Blitz Has Kept A Traditional TV Station Delisted In Google For Months

There are two ways to go about using the DMCA as a content provider in order to keep copyright infringement at bay: the right and good way, or the bad and lazy way. The right and good way is to use DMCA takedown requests sparingly, to be very...

GTA modders behind re3 and reVC fire back in court

The ongoing saga of modders versus Take-Two continues on, after some people behind the Grand Theft Auto fan projects re3 and reVC got their work taken down from GitHub and then sued.

Take-Two, Rockstar Continue DMCA Blitzing Mods And Save Games For GTA

Usually when a company does something that results in a public backlash, that company will stop digging holes. Over the summer, we wrote about Rockstar Games and its parent company, Take-Two Interactive, starting a war on modding communities for...

Gasp! YouTube Shutters Account For Person Committing DMCA Takedown Fraud!

It should come as no surprise to regular Techdirt readers that the DMCA takedown process is not only wide open to fraud and abuse, but that those avenues are regularly used in real life for just those purposes. Takedowns to silence criticism...

Gasp! YouTube Shutters Account For Person Committing DMCA Takedown Fraud!

It should come as no surprise to regular Techdirt readers that the DMCA takedown process is not only wide open to fraud and abuse, but that those avenues are regularly used in real life for just those purposes. Takedowns to silence criticism...

Beyond Right to Repair – Purism

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