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Fair Use and Copyright Abuse: WordPress Dismisses Abusive DMCA Complaint About My Story on DMCA Abuse
Read more: Fair Use and Copyright Abuse: WordPress Dismisses Abusive DMCA Complaint About My Story on DMCA AbuseAutomattic, the Californian tech company behind blogging platform WordPress, has dismissed a copyright complaint about this blog by conservative writer Michael Moates, citing fair use protections In February, I published a story about frivolous attempts to suppress sexual harassment claims against conservative writer Michael Moates. As I wrote in that story, since October someone has been filing…
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Bogus Copyright Complaints Sought to Suppress Michael Moates Sexual Harassment Claims
Read more: Bogus Copyright Complaints Sought to Suppress Michael Moates Sexual Harassment ClaimsAt least three young women have accused conservative writer Michael Moates of sending sexually suggestive messages Multiple bogus copyright complaints sought to suppress sexual harassment claims made last year against conservative writer and D.C. Chronicle founder Michael Moates. The complaints, sent in Moates’ name over a five-month period starting October, requested that Google delist six…
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NBT Films: Debunked Again
Read more: NBT Films: Debunked AgainTechdirt reports my post about debunked YouTuber’s copyright complaint against fact-checking website Snopes source Via “Snopes Debunks Fake YouTube Video; Video’s Creator Responds With A Bogus DMCA Notice” by Tim Cushing, Techdirt, December 6, 2017: from the pressing-the-shut-up-button dept Nothing But the Truth Films (NBT) has a credibility problem. Oh, the irony, I would normally…
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Snopes: Nothing but the Truth
Read more: Snopes: Nothing but the TruthFact-checking website Snopes targeted by debunked conspiracy YouTuber J.K. Sheindlin in copyright delisting request Sheindlin runs the popular YouTube channel Nothing But the Truth Films (NBT), which claims to “present the black and white facts about the geopolitical climate [including] Islam, Illuminati, Freemasonry, Cults and more.” Last year, NBT uploaded a video purporting to show an…
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Bad Fan Fiction
Read more: Bad Fan FictionMichael Jackson’s estate targets erotic fan fiction with series of copyright complaints According to the Lumen Database, Jackson’s estate recently hired self-proclaimed “Web Sheriff,” British IP lawyer John Giacobbi, to scrub a blogger’s erotic fan fiction about the late singer. John Giacobbi (source) The targeted blog, MJ Fan Fictions, includes “semi-erotic adventures” about Jackson and…
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Info-Warring (Part II)
Read more: Info-Warring (Part II)International Business Times files copyright complaint against conspiracy website InfoWars In February, I blogged about a series of DMCA copyright complaints filed against U.S. conspiracy website InfoWars. The complaints by pro-gun news website AmmoLand, Danish-run news website nsnbc international, plus a third accusation of content scraping by Cincinnati survivalist website On Point Preparedness, claimed that InfoWars republished their content without…
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The Ghost of Trump U.
Read more: The Ghost of Trump U.Google delists marketer’s analysis of Trump University sales letter after friend of deceased Donald Trump ghostwriter files copyright claim Trump University, founded in 2004 by its presidential namesake, was an unaccredited real estate programme aimed at budding investors. Before and after its closure in 2010, the New York-based programme faced repeated allegations of illegal business…
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Seryan Mirzakhanyan©
Read more: Seryan Mirzakhanyan©Medicare scammer claims copyright of his name, life story, and criminal record in effort to convince Google to delist reports about $5.4 million fraud conviction from U.S. Department of Justice website Seryan Mirzakhanyan, a 32-year-old Armenian-born scammer from California, who in 2016 was convicted of defrauding Medicare of $5.4 million, has filed at least three…
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Paparazzi Schätze
Read more: Paparazzi SchätzeBritish law firm claims copyright on paparazzi hot tub photos of pop star Rihanna with her billionaire Saudi boyfriend British law firm Carter-Ruck Solicitors is claiming copyright on paparazzi hot tub photos of pop star Rihanna cosying up to her new boyfriend, billionaire Saudi Toyota heir Hassan Jameel. That’s according to the Lumen Database, a…
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When Authors Attack (Redux)
Read more: When Authors Attack (Redux)Guardian deletes article about “batty” romance/sci-fi author Candace Sams after claims someone hacked her e-mails According to Google’s Transparency Report, the Texan author recently filed a copyright complaint for the search engine to delist a critical 2009 article published in the Guardian newspaper, “When Authors Attack” by multimedia books journalist Alison Flood. source Flood’s article said that the “wonderfully batty” Sams, using the pseudonym…
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