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Jim Sterling Warns Legal Action After DMCA
Shovelware developer Gilson Pontes abusing copyright takedown against criticism.
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More Ubisoft Execs Are Gone Following Abuse Allegations
And there are more that need to be gone.
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Snapshots: Naughty Dog Copyright Strikes Playstation Twitter
Sometimes you have to enjoy the finer things.
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Not Massive: Fullscreen Inc. (Rooster Teeth Owner) Goes Ham On False Copyright Claims
Fullscreen Inc. owns The Witcher 3 and nothing you say can convince me otherwise. What? You say CD Projekt Red owns The Witcher 3? That’s impossible!
Obviously I’m being facetious. Fullscreen Inc., no stranger to allegations of copyright abuse, is once again digging itself into a PR hole yet again this weekend after Youtubers began receiving copyright strikes over gameplay videos from titles that Fullscreen definitely does not own. Adding insult to injury, the copyright claims don’t so much list proof of ownership or violation as they do a number.
This story was covered by Reclaimthenet, and it looks like Fullscreen Inc.’s copyright bot is targeting videos of The Witcher 3 and Doki Doki Literature Club. A quick look through Twitter returns a fair number of accounts posting their grievances with the company. This isn’t the first time Fullscreen Inc. has gotten in hot water over illegal copyright claims, as last July users reported having their ad revenue claimed over Doom gameplay footage.
Will Youtube fix its broken copyright system? Probably not. MMO Fallout has reached out to Fullscreen Inc. for comment and will update if we receive a response.
Woke up in the middle of the night, checked my email and some random ass claims from a video from maybe a year ago? I will have to look more at this tomorrow, but is anyone else getting claimed from Fullscreen Inc? pic.twitter.com/ydlwQetxLY
— JoyfulDeath (@joyfuldeath) January 23, 2020
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did you guys know you can copyright the number 36 pic.twitter.com/dnja297R73
— Anne Munition (@AnneMunition) January 24, 2020
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One of my videos ( Cuphead Part One ) was claimed copyright by “Fullscreen,Inc”. At first I was so surprised to see the claim because it was a gaming video which was streamed without using any other contents from any kind of sources.. I am a new gaming content creator and Idk
— A Qube (@AQube4) January 25, 2020
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I already know the answer, but for the record, @TeamSalvato, does this “Fullscreen, Inc.” in any way own the rights to a particular scene in a vanilla #DDLC playthough/commentary that’s over a year old? pic.twitter.com/q8VsUoEQ8n
— Cole Goodrich (@RealAwsome2464) January 24, 2020
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Team Salvato, developer of Doki Doki Literature Club, has requested via Twitter that anyone who receives a copyright strike reach out to them.
For anyone who has received an erroneous @YouTube copyright claim from @Fullscreen Fullscreen, Inc. for your DDLC gameplay videos, please reach out to alecia@teamsalvato.com with your affected video URLs so that we can help reverse the claims ASAP. Thank you!
— Team Salvato (@TeamSalvato) January 24, 2020
IPE: MMO Fallout Hit With DMCA Takedown
Hello folks,
I initially grappled with whether to publish this piece, and just decided to go with it. It came to my attention over the weekend that MMO Fallout, specifically our domain host, has been hit with a DMCA takedown notice. The notice was sent to us in regards to an In Plain English article that was published last year, and it appears that someone is unhappy enough with our coverage and publicization of the events that they’ve decided to claim that our usage of their name in coverage and the court dockets infringes on copyright and trademarks.
Now MMO Fallout knows its legal rights and will not be voluntarily taking down this article. I have nearly full confidence in our hosting provider that they will see the takedown for what it is and will ignore it. That said, I fully understand that it is in their best interest under US Copyright law to act now and make me defend myself later, so I decided to publish this notice as a warning that, on the off chance this website suddenly goes dark over the next few days, you know what happened.
With that, I now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.
Blizzard Silencing Abusive World of Warcraft Players
Blizzard has unveiled new policies surrounding players using abusive language in World of Warcraft chat, primarily in how the game will deal with people who receive numerous reports.
Under Blizzard’s new system, players who are reported multiple times will receive an account-wide penalty. Silenced players will be unable to speak in most chat channels, cannot send mail, send party invitations, create calendar events, or send war game invitations and duel invitations.
Silenced players will still have access to whisper chat with friends/raids, create parties/raids, share quests, and talk in global chat when a moderator is present. Chat is restricted for 24 hours on first offense, with each subsequent action doubling that time with no maximum. The tenth silence on an account, for example, will last 12,288 hours or 512 days.
Silenced players are restricted on an account-wide basis.
(Source: World of Warcraft)
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