DMCA

Copyright Law Changes Could Put An End To Memes

New Law Could See Internet Memes Fall Under Copyright Protection If one thing is certain, it is that the internet…

6 years ago

Pepe the Frog Creator Declares Meme War on Alt-Right with Flurry of DMCA Claims

Pepe the Frog - Unofficial Mascot of the Alt-Right Similar to the troll face, Pepe the Frog has taken the…

7 years ago

Campo Santo Files DMCA Takedown for PewDiePie’s Firewatch Video

PewDiePie strikes again! We're all used to PewDiePie's eccentricity, right? There's nothing wrong with speaking your mind, surely, but when…

7 years ago

ZeniMax Cracking Down on DoomRL – 12 Years After it Was Released!

The creators of DoomRL have been threatened with legal action this week over their free fan made game. The game…

8 years ago

Google Got Over A Billion Take Down Requests Last Year

The DMCA is one of the most important pieces of legislation governing digital copyrights. Under the DMCA, online entities can be…

8 years ago

Nintendo Takes Down No Mario’s Sky – Rebrands as DMCA’s Sky

An indie parody of No Man’s Sky, which repurposes the game as a 2D Mario platformer, has been subject to…

8 years ago

Nintendo Shuts Down Over 600 Fan Created Games

Nintendo has been on the warpath of late when it comes to copyright takedowns and disapproves of anyone using their…

8 years ago

DMCA Notices Have Quadrupled Says Google

There are lots of things on the internet, they say that if you looked hard enough you could find the…

8 years ago

The Music Industry Wants The Digital Copyright Law Reformed

First, we had live music, then we got vinyl records, then cassettes and CD's and now we can enjoy our…

9 years ago

Google Receives 1500 DMCA Takedowns Per Minute

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act gives copyright holders the ability to make takedown requests for any content they deem a…

9 years ago

DMCA Exception Makes Smart TV Hacking Legal

Every three years, the US Copyright Office listens to petitions to make revisions and exemptions to the anti-circumvention protections of…

9 years ago

TTP Could Outlaw Filesharing Sites

WikiLeaks has been releasing secret documents from the recently-signed Trans-Pacific Partnership, which ties a cabal of Pacific countries, including the…

9 years ago

‘Pixels’ Copyright Notices Removed the Studio’s own Trailer

Pixels is an atrocious video game-themed movie and less endearing than a swarm of angry wasps. The film has gained…

9 years ago

Twitter Sued Again for Failing to Comply with Takedown Request

It has happened before that someone sued Twitter on the grounds of failing to remove copyrighted material upon request and…

9 years ago

WordPress Dismisses 43% of Piracy Takedown Notices

Automattic, the company behind WordPress, has published the number of DMCA takedown requests received during the last few months. Between…

9 years ago