Copyright
(Hypebot ) — Twitch has expressed “disappointment” after a recent round of DMCA takedown notices ignited exactly the response one might expect from ...
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Chris Castle Proposes A Rate-Based Fix For Frozen Mechanicals
(Hypebot) — Here, Chris Castle outlines how the ongoing frozen mechanicals dilemma facing the copyright sector of the music industry could potentially be ...
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Facebook, YouTube Agree To Voluntary Anti-Piracy Measures With UK Creatives
(Hypebot) — Backed by the UK government, British creative industries, along with several major social media services like Facebook and YouTube, have settled on ...
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Twitch Makes Issuing DMCA Strikes Against Streamers Easier
(Hypebot) — Responding to label demands, Twitch has added a new tool that will make slapping its creators with DMCA notices easier than ...
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Labels File Lawsuit Alleging Vimeo Failed To Stop Unlicensed Music
(Hypebot) — Global music industry trade group IFPI, its Italian counterpart FIMI, and the Italian anti-piracy organization FPM have coordinated a legal action ...
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More Than 1000 Artists Protest The “Horror” Of Germany’s New Copyright Law
(Hypebot) — In response to the latest encroachment on artists’ rights, German artists are speaking out against the German government in response to ...
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Opinion: The Digital Copyright Act: We Told Senator Tillis Not To Do This, But He Did Anyway
(Hypebot) — After Techdirt’s reform efforts to the deeply flawed Digital Copyright Act seem to have fallen on deaf ears, they are once ...
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Metallica, Twitch, Back In Copyright News Again
(Hypebot) — In a bit of a callback to the early 2000s, when Metallica threw themselves on the front lines of the download ...
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CreativeFuture Asks Biden Admin To Adopt A Strong Copyright Agenda
(Hypebot) — CreativeFuture, a coalition of more than 560 companies in the creative sector has penned a letter to the Biden administration, urging ...
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation Answers Key Questions On Changes To Copyrights In 2021
(Hypebot) — Although they were easy to miss in the end of year kerfuffle, several new copyright bill and proposals were not only ...
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