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Google Sues Men Who Weaponized DMCA Notices to Crush Competition

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While all non-compliant DMCA takedown notices are invalid by default, there’s a huge difference between those sent in error and others crafted for purely malicious purposes. Bogus DMCA takedown notices are nothing new, but the rise of organized groups using malicious DMCA notices as a business tool has been apparent in recent years.

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Google Preemptively Banned Hundreds of Millions of ‘Pirate’ URLs Last Year

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Under the current DMCA legislation, US-based Internet services are expected to remove infringing links, if a copyright holder complains. Google has always maintained that the DMCA works well. Like all other online service providers, Google processes DMCA takedown notices. This happened seven billion times over the past decade.

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Amazon Removes Books From Kindle Unlimited After They Appear on Pirate Sites

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That said, the exclusivity policy remains in place. It would make more sense for Amazon to update its KDP Select policy to exclude pirate sites from the exclusivity rule. That will do more than having them stress over book removals and pointless DMCA takedown campaigns.

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Best AI Art Generators Using Generative AI

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Midjourney’s terms of service have a DMCA takedown policy, which means artists can request their work to be removed if they believe copyright infringement has occurred. However, some artists have accused Midjourney of devaluing original work because it uses artists’ copyrighted works as part of its training set.

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