We’ve been writing about Twitch’s copyright-takedowns problem this month: a barrage of retrospective claims for past music use in videos archived on Amazon’s service, followed by news that Twitch will be pro-actively scanning […]
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Roc Nation files takedowns over YouTube deepfake audio of Jay-Z
Here’s a legal question for you: if someone creates a deepfake audio recording of an artist or public figure – for example them reading Hamlet’s ‘To Be Or Not To Be’ […]
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Mixtape site Spinrilla sues RIAA over takedown notices
Usually when US industry body the RIAA is involved in a court copyright dust-up with a website, it’s the industry body doing the suing (or rather, working with labels who […]
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TikTok’s problem with explicit music was an error, not policy
These are heady yet risky times for social app TikTok. Its downloads and usage continue to grow sharply, fuelled by a big-budget, long-term marketing campaign. It’s increasingly feted by brands […]
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Music bodies hitting Grooveshark hard with Google takedowns
Controversial streaming service Grooveshark is taking a hit to its Google search ranking. The company is being targeted by a blizzard of takedown requests sent to Google, which recently started […]
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‘Lost’ Spice Girls tracks appear on SoundCloud (then get lost again)
Exciting times yesterday for the underground Spice Girls crate-digging community, as four “lost” tracks by the group appeared on SoundCloud. The Verge claimed that the songs had been recorded for […]
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BPI files its 100 millionth takedown notice with Google
10 months ago, British music body the BPI had reported 50m URLs to Google that it believed to be infringing, in order to get them removed from its search listings. […]
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Google search-engine takedowns reach 543k a day
The rapid rise in DMCA takedown requests for links in Google’s search results continues. In early July 2012, the company was fielding 719k weekly takedown requests, but a month later this had doubled to 1.5m.
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Google received 51.4m search-takedown requests in 2012
TorrentFreak has been doing some sums based on Google’s publication of the DMCA URL takedown requests it received in 2012 for its search engine.