Digital Millennium Copyright Act
PulseAugur coverage of Digital Millennium Copyright Act — every cluster mentioning Digital Millennium Copyright Act across labs, papers, and developer communities, ranked by signal.
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NYT sues Brave over AI API, names 5 AI firms as customers
The New York Times has filed a lawsuit against Brave, alleging that its Search API illegally uses copyrighted material. The lawsuit, which also includes similar claims from other publishers, names five AI companies—Anth…
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DMCA hinders interoperability, AI may offer solutions
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1998, has created a legal framework that hinders adversarial interoperability. This law, and similar "anticircumvention" laws adopted globa…
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Website links recompiled games playable in web browsers amid DMCA actions
A new website, recompiledgames.com, has emerged to catalog recompiled video games that are playable in a web browser. This development follows GitHub's swift response to DMCA requests concerning recompiled games. One no…
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GitHub refuses to remove cracked Photopea copies; OpenAI releases math breakthroughs
A developer of the popular web-based photo editor Photopea has reported that GitHub is refusing to remove cracked copies of their software. These unauthorized versions, created by AI models that strip ads from the origi…
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Author criticizes modern corporate censorship as 'semantic sewage'
The author criticizes the evolution of censorship from state-enforced song ownership in the 1990s under Clinton and Gore's Digital Millennium Copyright Act to a modern form of "semantic sewage" produced by corporate ent…
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Denuvo cracking group DenuvOwO reportedly disbands amid lawsuit, but piracy continues
The DenuvOwO cracking group has reportedly disbanded, likely due to a lawsuit filed by Irdeto, the company behind the Denuvo Digital Rights Management (DRM) software. This action has led to the removal of DenuvOwO's cra…
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Appeals Court Rejects Broad Copyright Claim, Bolstering Internet Users
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled in favor of internet users and programmers, rejecting an attempt to broaden the scope of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. This decision, supported by the El…
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Denuvo sues anonymous game cracker over DRM bypass in 26 games · 4 sources tracked
Denuvo, a developer of Digital Rights Management (DRM) and anti-tampering software, has filed a lawsuit against an anonymous game cracker known as 'voices38'. The company alleges that 'voices38' bypassed its Anti-Tamper…
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Cory Doctorow's 2011 warning on restricting computation revisited
Cory Doctorow's 2011 essay, "The Coming War on General Computation," warns against legal restrictions on modifying software and hardware. The article, discussed on platforms like Mastodon and Hacker News, highlights con…
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Suno updates AI models to licensed content amid DMCA dispute
Suno, an AI music generation company, has updated its models to exclusively use content for which it has secured licenses. This move comes amid a growing dispute over copyright and AI-generated content, highlighted by a…
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GTA Vice City & III return to browsers via open-source reverse engineering
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto III are now playable in web browsers thanks to open-source reverse engineering efforts. These classic games were previously removed from platforms like DOS Zone due to a …
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Tetris Company Denies Involvement in White House Immigration Game
The Tetris Company has stated it was not involved in the creation of the White House's new game, "Build the Wall," and takes copyright infringement seriously. The game, which is hosted on the White House website, is des…
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Court rules on DMCA, SCOTUS urged on Kalshi bets, GTA 6 takeover slammed
A federal court in Massachusetts has ruled that copyright holders can issue takedown notices based on a subjective belief of infringement, a decision the Electronic Frontier Foundation plans to appeal. Separately, New J…
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DMCA Strikes Roblox, Affecting Song IDs
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is impacting song usage within the popular gaming platform Roblox. This has led to the removal or restriction of certain song IDs, affecting how music can be integrated into t…
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Music publishers sue Anthropic over DMCA violation in data pipeline
Music publishers Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, naming co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann personally. The core of the complaint, filed in the Northern Dis…
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Luanti removed from Google Play over baseless AI copyright claim
The open-source game creation platform Luanti has been removed from the Google Play Store following a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice filed by Tracer.AI on behalf of Microsoft. The notice falsely claims L…
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Reddit's DMCA lawsuit against Perplexity AI and SerpApi advances
A federal judge has allowed Reddit's lawsuit against web scraper SerpApi and Perplexity AI to proceed, alleging a conspiracy to illegally scrape copyrighted content. The judge found that Reddit plausibly pleaded that Se…
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Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results
Conversations with Anthropic's Claude AI were inadvertently exposed in Google and Microsoft Bing search results due to a web crawler error. This incident highlights the challenges in preventing search engines from index…
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Google, Reddit use DMCA to fight AI web scraping
Google and Reddit are employing unusual legal strategies, specifically the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), to combat AI web scraping of their content. Both companies have sued SerpApi, a web scraping service, a…
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AI music generator Suno's data scraping exposed by hacker · 10 sources tracked
A hacker has revealed that the AI music generator Suno scraped millions of songs and lyrics from various online platforms, including YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius, as well as stock music libraries and podcasts. The …