#CopyrightAbuse
(Hypebot) — Sony Music is alleging that the public benefit organization Quad9, a free, recursive, anycast DNS platform, must stop resolving domain names ...
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UMG Has Copyrighted The Moon (Or Was It Facebook?)
(Hypebot) — Citizens of the earth have historically enjoyed unfettered access to the moon, albeit from afar, but a new copyright claim by ...
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Why Do Companies Continue To Fold Under Copyright Pressure, Even If They Shouldn’t?
(Hypebot) — In this piece, Katharine Trendacosta breaks down some of the systemic issues in the music industry which are causing companies to buckle ...
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Sheriff Admits He’s Playing Taylor Swift Songs To Stop Witnesses From Uploading Videos To YouTube
(Hypebot) — An officer in the Alameda County, CA Sheriff’s Department has openly admitted to playing Taylor Swift to prevent citizen’s recordings from being ...
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LA Court Abuses Copyright Law To Pull Down Recording Of Britney Spears Hearing
LOS ANGELES (Hypebot) — After an illicit recording of Spears’ recent impassioned plea to a judge to end her conservatorship was posted, the ...
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Police Are Using Music To Stop From Being Filmed
(Hypebot) — A recent use of Sublime’s “Santeria” by a cop in a effort to trigger Instagram’s sensitive copyright filter is not a ...
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YouTube Moves To Impose Limits On Manual Copyright Claims On Short Music Clips
(CelebrityAccess) — Video-on-demand giant Youtube is finally pushing back against what it characterizes as “aggressive” manual copyright claims against very short music clips ...
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