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Technology & Marketing Law Blog
This Week in the “DMCA Eating Copyright Law”: Cordova v. Huneault (Guest Blog Post)
By Eric Goldman
by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy A recent Northern District of California opinion in Cordova v. Huneault sent another bat-signal to those who follow this area of the law: copyright law…
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
Copyright Takedown Notices Don’t Require Services to Find and Remove Other Identical Copies–Athos v. YouTube
By Eric Goldman
I previously summarized this case: Athos owns the copyrights to many classic Mexican films. Users regularly upload its film clips to YouTube. These uploads have irritated Athos since 2014. However,…
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
DMCA 512(c) Safe Harbor Applies to Embedding–Harrington v. Pinterest
By Eric Goldman
This is a long-running class action copyright case (filed in 2020!) led by the photographer Blaine Harrington (now deceased). The plaintiffs complain about user-uploaded photos appearing in Pinterest’s off-website notifications…
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
Court Authorizes Unmasking Subpoena in Copyright Case–In re DMCA Subpoena to GoDaddy
By Eric Goldman
The copyright owner Tamaris claims that 100+ websites, including “casinoestelar.com” and “powerbet.win,” infringe their copyrights. The copyright owner obtained a 512(h) unmasking subpoena and served it on GoDaddy. GoDaddy notified…
Copyright Policy Institute
What is the Lumen DMCA database? Time for transparency
I have been doing some research to better understand this thing called "the Lumen database," or DMCA takedown requests sent to Google, Twitter/X, and others. This is a "database" alleged…
Harness Dickey Blog
A DMCA Takedown notice is a powerful tool if done correctly.
Are Your Copyright Infringement Takedown Notices Going Nowhere? Online Companies May Have Misled You Into Submitting a Non-Compliant DMCA Takedown Notice. A DMCA Takedown notice is a powerful tool in…
Legal Theory Blog
Leuzzi on Automated Copyright Enforcementment
Vitantonio Leuzzi (University of Trento) has posted Automated Copyright Enforcement Online. How Platforms Stifle Creativity by Reducing Technological Cost (Trento Student Law Review, Volume 6, No 2. Pp 17-72) on…
Cokato Copyright Attorney: The Law Blog of Thomas James
The New Copyright Circumvention Rules
By Thomas James
In 1998, Congress enacted the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (“DMCA”). In addition to establishing the notice-and-take-down regimen with which website and blog owners are (or should be) familiar, the DMCA…
Incontestable Blog
DMCA Survives Another First Amendment Challenge
By Publisher
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit recently issued its decision in Matthew Green v. DOJ, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to section 1201 of…
The IP Law Blog
The Briefing: Authors Get Mixed Results with Initial Skirmish in OpenAI Lawsuit
By Scott Hervey, James Kachmar
https://youtu.be/UKp-Dqrhe3Q Delve into the complexities of vicarious infringement and DMCA violations in AI training. Scott Hervey and James Kachmar from Weintraub Tobin dissect the recent district court ruling on OpenAI's…