DMCA
Udemy abuses DMCA system to take down YouTube video that showed viewers how to legally access free courses
Copyright takedowns as censorship.
DMCA takes down Trump YMCA dancing video
Many have posted the video but the only one taken down was Trump’s, raisng targeted censorship accusations.
Proctoring software company abuses DMCA to shutdown student who exposed invasive software tracking
The DMCA is increasingly being used to censor.
Entertainment industry calls for internet upload filters to preemptively remove copyrighted content
Something else that could be abused for censorship and that would harm small creators.
Google Stadia Creative Director: Streamers should buy a license from developers and publishers to stream games
Streamers have been the driving force behind the success of several indie games. Under this proposal, they’d have to hand over a cut of their revenue to developers to stream games.
Twitter deletes Trump COVID victory meme after copyright complaint
This isn’t the first time this has happened.
Nikola silences YouTube and Twitter critics with a wave of copyright claims
Another large corporation uses YouTube’s copyright system to silence criticism.
Project Veritas head James O’Keefe locked out of Twitter after his nine-month-old tweet is copyright claimed
Project Veritas has had its content restricted several times after copyright claims were filed on old tweets.
Guitar teacher Gareth Evans’ YouTube channel threatened with deletion after mass copyright strikes
Evans says YouTube has provided him with no information on which aspects of his videos are supposedly violating copyright.
President Trump and Carpe Donktum sued over meme
The lawsuit also claims that the creation and sharing of the satirical meme caused “fright and shock.”
President Trump considers pardoning Edward Snowden
Trump says he’s looking into pardoning the NSA whistleblower.
Anime publisher Shogakukan issues DMCA notice against Google for Dictionary term “magi”
Bulk DMCA strikes from publishers are an increasing censorship problem.