every sentence that contains the word "brand" is bullshit Warner claims ownership over the numbers 36 and 50, and demonetizes Youtube videos that incorporate them Cory Doctorow
studio 71 Youtube's Content ID has become the tool of choice for grifty copyfraudsters who steal from artists Cory Doctorow
adrev Youtube copyright trolls Adrev claim to own a homemade MIDI rendition of 1899's Flight of the Bumblebee Cory Doctorow
marc randazza The lawyer who caught UNC giving $2.5m to white nationalists orders the white nationalists to create a $2.5m fund for Black students or face a lawsuit Cory Doctorow
greg doucette White nationalists who got a $2.5m payout from UNC abuse the DMCA to censor lawyer's trove of documents about it Cory Doctorow
SCP Raising legal funds to defend an online sf shared world that's been stolen by a Russian trademark troll Cory Doctorow
Jawaharlal Nehru University An Indian research university has assembled 73 million journal articles (without permission) and is offering the archive for unfettered scientific text-mining Cory Doctorow
john steele Porno copyright troll sentenced to 14 years: "a wrecking ball to trust in the administration of justice" Cory Doctorow
warner chappell How Warner Chappell was able to steal revenues from 25% of a popular Minecraft vlogger's channels Cory Doctorow
contentid Blackmailers use false copyright claims to shut down victims' Youtube accounts, offer to lift them in exchange for Bitcoin Cory Doctorow
youtubes Lionsgate accused of abusing YouTube's contentID system to remove criticism of its movies Rob Beschizza
our european future Sony won't let you post "crap recordings" of a few seconds of your own Beethoven piano performance Cory Doctorow
canal+ Canal+ commits copyfraud, gets Banksy's painting-shredding video removed from Youtube Cory Doctorow
buildteam After London builders' bid to remove a complaint from Mumsnet failed, a mysterious Pakistani-American copyright claim did the job Cory Doctorow
ludlow music and the richmond organization "We Shall Overcome" has overcome copyfraud and is now unambiguously public domain Cory Doctorow