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Comedian Steven Crowder says his YouTube channel with 3.7 million subscribers could be removed due to fake copyright claims
Three bogus copyright strikes were filed against an original “Dr. Trump” parody music video in the span of a week and Crowder says that these strikes may lead to his YouTube channel being terminated.
Child labor laws never anticipated the YouTube and “influencer” era
Children are being put to work on YouTube and Instagram.
Podcast app Luminary is using bad practices with the way it handles free and open podcast feeds
Taking the original MP3 from the show creator’s hosting company and rehosting it on their own network can be seen as a copyright infringement.
Joe Rogan Experience requests to be removed from new walled-garden podcasts app Luminary
The Joe Rogan podcast is snubbing the closed nature of the new VC-backed app.
Facebook is finding it impossible to police content due to so many global languages
The company points out that machine learning requires very large data sets – that are unavailable in many languages.
This is the golden age of podcasts, but the open standard is under threat
Podcasting’s a medium that democratizes the space by providing access to everyone.
“Facebook Watch” content creators are being treated badly by Facebook, creator says
2019 has been a hard year for converting views into cash
This Spongebob meme is banned on Facebook for “hate speech”
Facebook’s upload filter is automatically punishing Facebook users for uploading a harmless Spongebob Squarepants meme.
Mainstream media organizations are republishing and selling The Mueller Report as ebooks for easy profit
Rehashed versions of the report are coming to an Amazon page near you.
The Art of The Meme: HBO does’t like President Trump using Game of Thrones references
It’s not the first time President Trump has been warned against skirting the line on the use of intellectual property.
European Council passes Articles 11 and 13 of the EU Copyright Directive in final vote
19 countries backed the Directive, six voted against it, and three abstained. All EU member states will now be required to write the Directive into their national law by 2021.
TV network Starz uses fake copyright claims to censor tweets and criticism from TorrentFreak
Starz used false copyright claims to censor a tweet from TorrentFreak that was reporting on a Starz TV show being leaked online. TorrentFreak called out this censorship in a response article and Starz doubled down by using further bogus claims to censor this response article on Twitter.