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Kodi Addon repositories are down after pressure from rights protection organization
Content rights organization FACT took responsibility for the events.
The White House is the latest victim of YouTube’s bogus copyright system
Trump has had many of his viral memes suppressed this year as a result of questionable copyright claims.
Microsoft president says Taylor Swift “tried to sue” them over controversial AI chatbot Tay
According to Smith, it was revealed that the popstar’s lawyer accused Microsoft of violating federal and state laws by misleading the association between the chatbot and the singer.
YouTube takes down 200-year-old Schubert public domain music piece on false “copyright” grounds
YouTube automatically flagged and demonetized the video saying that it’s a copyright violation – despite it being in the public domain.
Nintendo is still damaging creators and YouTube is allowing it
Nintendo is up to its old tricks, almost wiping out creators’ entire businesses at the click of a button, and forcing the takedown of content they have no legal right to take down.
YouTube deletes Spain’s VOX political party channel after bizarre copyright infringement claims
The deletion seems to be related to VOX uploading interviews with party members that it doesn’t own the copyright to.
Disney “copyright claims” YouTube channels that criticize Captain Marvel
Disney is accused of abusing copyright law to silence critics.
Twitter bans the Houston Rockets
Several sports accounts have been banned in the last week.
Ariana Grande is being sued for uploading a photograph of herself to Instagram
Photographers suing celebs is on the rise.
Ukraine cyber cops raid online pirate sites, detain government employee
The Ukraine is stepping up its plans to stop online piracy.
Paris’s High Court has ordered French ISPs to block access to the pirate libraries LibGen and Sci-Hub
Tribunal de Grande Instance asked several of the largest French ISPs; Orange, SFR, Free, and Bouygues Telecom to wholly block access to Sci-Hub and LibGen within a year.