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US copyright statute governing online takedown notices, subpoenas to identify infringers, and protection of copyright management information.
Warner/Chappell's claim on a few seconds of a friend's karaoke took Lindsay Ellis's two-and-a-half-hour cruise video off YouTube, Ellis says. Any team shipping long-form video now has to count stray background music as a risk to the whole upload.
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No one has been sued. The filings still seek login IPs, linked Google and Xbox accounts, device identifiers and cloud files tied to users of several Discord servers since June 1.
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One enforcement vendor's DMCA filings can take a 1.3 million-subscriber library offline before anyone weighs fair use. Nicholas Light got his videos back, and the question behind them stayed open.
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The label's dashboard showed 26 copyright strikes, more than eight times the three that trigger termination. Founder DJ Cutman says the wave hit around 50 artists at once, and YouTube has since moved the filing deadline to September 21.
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A unanimous Ninth Circuit panel held that Copilot generates code instead of retrieving files, so the DMCA claim in Doe v GitHub is out. The two breach-of-contract claims against GitHub, Microsoft and OpenAI are still running.
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Albanian activists documenting three months of protests lost Instagram accounts to copyright complaints. More than 30 members of the European Parliament want Brussels to examine whether Meta breached the Digital Services Act.
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Louis Rossmann's Own Your Shit tour spent the summer pointing crowds at Section 1201 of the DMCA, the 1998 provision that makes bypassing a manufacturer's lock illegal. His nonprofit Fulu pays for doing it anyway.
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Stephen Totilo lost his X account over screenshots of public court orders, on a notice that argued trademark law using a copyright form; GameStop got struck for running the screenshot Rockstar hands to the press.
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The publisher's complaints against Suno and Anthropic plead DMCA circumvention beside infringement, which moves a buyer's diligence question onto the corpus rather than the filter.
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CyberLeek's drip-feed of stolen footage carries no notification clock. Take-Two's answer has been DMCA subpoenas, and researchers read the case as an insider threat investigation.
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Seven anti-circumvention notices did the work on August 17, 2026, and the fork networks they swept were mostly abandoned code with no maintainer left to object.
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