I’ve previously addressed, a few times now, the problem with relying too much on automated systems to identify infringing files that are then targeted with DMCA take-down notices. The latest widely-reported incident of this kind is even more unfortunate in some ways, because the victim of the unwarranted take-down notice also happens to be a…
If you follow copyright law and intellectual property-related news at all, then there’s little doubt that you’ve read about “copyright trolls,” a term for which Wikipedia offers as good a definition as I’ve seen: “a pejorative term for a party that enforces copyrights it owns for purposes of making money through litigation, in a manner…
Given the services that DMCA Force provides, one might reasonably assume that I’m in favor of issuing DMCA take-down notices in response to any and all apparent online infringements on a copyrighted work; one would be wrong to make that assumption, however. Just to be perfectly clear here, in this post I’m not speaking on…
In reading about the (inevitable) piracy of Netflix’s popular original series House of Cards, and the yeezy replica evidently record-setting piracy of the third seasons premier of HBO’s Game of Thrones, I’m struck by what the two have in common, beyond their popularity. Both series are distributed behind pay walls, with one (House of Cards)…
