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Articles 11 and 13 lose more support days before the final vote
The major Polish political party Platforma announced that it will be voting against the EU Copyright Directive unless Article 13 is removed.
Independent musician Dan Bull highlights the dangers of Article 13 in his new Robocopyright rap
The catchy tune covers how Article 13 will hurt small creators and that AI cannot accurately assess whether specific pieces of copyrighted content are protected under fair use.
Fake YouTube copyright claims used to censor Tim Pool, Lauren Chen, and others
Live Nation Video network filed false copyright claims against Pool, Chen, Ready To Glare, and Omegon which suppressed their criticism of Desmond the drag kid.
Julian Assange’s mother is being censored on Twitter
Christine had been posting several direct replies to US National Security Advisor John Bolton and Hillary Clinton.
Reputation management companies are trying to abuse copyright laws to suppress legitimate reviews
The abuse of copyright law is one of the biggest problems on the internet at the moment.
The Japan copyright infringement law fortunately appears to be failing
Under the proposed law, just taking a screenshot would have been illegal.
Article 13’s main supporter Axel Voss suggests YouTube may not have the right to exist
Voss said we have to think about whether YouTube and other platforms which give people access to copyright-protected works should exist.
Angry at YouTube, a man drives cross country with baseball bats to attack Google HQ
A dispute with Google over a shutdown of a YouTube channel has led to the arrest of 33-year-old Kyle Long on Sunday.
Infowars host Owen Shroyer banned from Facebook and YouTube
According to Shroyer, no reason was given. It was an outright ban.
Consider making your Flickr photos Creative Commons to avoid the 1,000 photo limit
“All public Creative Commons works on Flickr are now protected from deletion”, says Flickr.
Steven Crowder responds to the bogus copyright claims from ABC and Disney
Crowder has given an update on the four false copyright claims which led to his Anti-Oscars Party YouTube live stream being taken down and uploads of the stream being blocked.
Rust YouTuber “Vice” had his channel deleted for so-called “impersonation” of VICE Media
YouTube didn’t offer the YouTuber a chance to change their name – they just deleted the entire channel.