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Jay-Z’s Company, Roc Nation, Attempts To Take Down Deepfakes

Jay-Z’s Company, Roc Nation, Attempts To Take Down Deepfakes

Roc Nation LLC, the entertainment agency founded by Jay-Z, has filed takedown notices against deepfake videos portraying the American rapper, The Guardian reports. Notable examples include a clip where he appears to be singing Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” and another where he is shown rapping the well-known “To Be or Not to […]

4y ago

Louis C.K. Releases Copyright Notice To Block Reporters From Quoting His Shows

Louis C.K. Releases Copyright Notice To Block Reporters From Quoting His Shows

Louis C.K.’s controversial comeback post-scandal hasn’t gone so well. He’s insisted on reducing his recent foibles down to uncomfortable jokes that only make him the center of more contentious debate. Most notably was the stand-up performance in which he said Parkland survivors thought they were interesting because they “went to a high school where kids […]

5y ago

New Zealand Appeals Court Rules Kim Dotcom Can Be Extradited To U.S.

New Zealand Appeals Court Rules Kim Dotcom Can Be Extradited To U.S.

The New Zealand Court of Appeals has ruled that founder of the now-defunct file sharing website Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, can be extradited to the U.S., upholding the decision of the High Court and District Court. The court also upheld the decision that Mattias Ortmann, Bram van der Kolk, and Finn Batato, all accused of copyright […]

6y ago

Memes Might Be Censored In Europe As Part Of EU Copyright Directive Article 13

Memes Might Be Censored In Europe As Part Of EU Copyright Directive Article 13

Memes. You’ve seen them, shared them, and maybe even created them. Now, as part of a new law called the EU Copyright Directive, memes face potential censorship by giants like Facebook, Reddit, and 4chan. The new law is not specifically targeting memes, although memes fall under the wide umbrella of the types of information that […]

6y ago

Naruto The Monkey Can’t Sue For Selfie Rights, But His Species Will Benefit From The Photo

Naruto The Monkey Can’t Sue For Selfie Rights, But His Species Will Benefit From The Photo

In 2011, a crested black macaque monkey took a selfie with a British photographer’s camera in Sulawesi, Indonesia. The amazing photo went viral and made the rounds on social media. The photographer, David Slater, published the photo in a book called “Wildlife Personalities” in 2014. That would have been the end of the story, but […]

6y ago

Led Zeppelin Wins Copyright Lawsuit: Courts Deem ‘Stairway’ Original Work

Led Zeppelin Wins Copyright Lawsuit: Courts Deem ‘Stairway’ Original Work

Led Zeppelin won a copyright infringement lawsuit Thursday that had been filed against the band’s song “Stairway to Heaven.” Plaintiffs in the case, the Randy Craig Wolfe Trust, failed to prove to a federal jury in California that the opening melody of “Stairway” was plagiarized by Jimmy Page and his band from Spirit’s 1968 instrumental, […]

8y ago

Fat-Shamed Axl Rose Issues Copyright Violation Notices Over Internet Memes

Fat-Shamed Axl Rose Issues Copyright Violation Notices Over Internet Memes

Axl Rose is known for many things, mostly due to his singing talents. He’s spent decades as the Guns N’ Roses frontman and most recently, Rose has hit the tour circuit with AC/DC, serving as that band’s lead singer while their own Brian Johnson recovers from ear injuries, but there’s more to Axl Rose than […]

8y ago

Under Armour Flattered By Chinese Imitation

Under Armour Flattered By Chinese Imitation

A Chinese company caused the sportswear world to gasp at its logo unveiling last week – but for all the wrong reasons. The newly launched Fujian-based company Uncle Martian’s logo is almost an exact replica of the elite Baltimore-based brand Under Armour’s current trademark. Under Armour is a famous athletic apparel brand with many internationally […]

8y ago

Did Led Zeppelin Steal ‘Stairway To Heaven?’ Before Trial Jury Decides, Listen To The Evidence Yourself

Did Led Zeppelin Steal ‘Stairway To Heaven?’ Before Trial Jury Decides, Listen To The Evidence Yourself

https://phoenix.playwire.com/en/publishers/1013074/videos/4791764 Anyone who does anything creative — painting, writing books, or penning epic rock songs — knows that the creative process is a mysterious lady. Ideas can materialize out of nowhere. And right now, Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant and Jimmy Page may be trying to rack their aging brains to recall what inspired them to […]

8y ago

Batmobile Copyright: Supreme Court Rules Against California Man Who Builds Replicas Of 1960s Prop

Batmobile Copyright: Supreme Court Rules Against California Man Who Builds Replicas Of 1960s Prop

The Supreme Court has ruled in the Batmobile copyright case, and the news isn’t good for the California mechanic who builds and sells replicas of the iconic 1960s prop. As Sport Act reports, for years, Mark Towle of Temecula, California, has been building replicas of the Batmobile — or at least, the version of the […]

8y ago

After Losing Nearly 300,000 Subscribers, Fine Bros Cancel Trademark Of React Videos

After Losing Nearly 300,000 Subscribers, Fine Bros Cancel Trademark Of React Videos

Popular YouTube duo, the Fine Bros, stirred up a massive controversy this week after deciding to trademark the “React” videos that made them famous, as well as attempting to license other creators to make “React” videos on their behalf. A previous report from The Inquisitr covered the initial backlash and the Fine Bros attempt to […]

8y ago

Anne Frank’s Diary Released For Free Online, Copyright Dispute Rages On

Anne Frank’s Diary Released For Free Online, Copyright Dispute Rages On

Anne Frank’s diary, one of the most renowned literary pieces regarding the holocaust, became available online for free, despite an ongoing copyright dispute. According to Yahoo! News, a French academic and an MP released Frank’s personal account of her time in hiding during World War II claiming that Anne’s diary became public property on January […]

9y ago

Happy Birthday To Taylor Swift, And “Happy Birthday To You” Copyright Suit Gets Resolved

Happy Birthday To Taylor Swift, And “Happy Birthday To You” Copyright Suit Gets Resolved

Happy birthday is likely the most popular song on the planet, and Taylor Swift’s fans are undoubtedly singing it to the singing superstar today. Dec. 13 marks T-Swift’s 26th birthday, and the Internet is rife with birthday cheers for the songbird. https://twitter.com/kaileydigi/status/676025910257127424 Yes, Swifties the world over are singing happy birthday to their favorite singer, […]

9y ago

‘The Diary Of Anne Frank’ Copyright Controversy Escalates

‘The Diary Of Anne Frank’ Copyright Controversy Escalates

Anne Frank died 70 years ago at a German concentration camp called Bergen-Belsen. Anne, a 15-year-old Jewish girl, died at the prison after being arrested and after having spent years in hiding with her family and others to escape from the Nazis during World War II. In 1942, Anne Frank, her father Otto, mother Edith, […]

9y ago

Steven Tyler Orders Donald Trump To Stop Playing ‘Dream On’ — For The Second Time

Steven Tyler Orders Donald Trump To Stop Playing ‘Dream On’ — For The Second Time

Wherever Steven Tyler’s political affiliations lie, or however apparently tight he is with Donald Trump, he absolutely does not want the billionaire and now surprise GOP presidential candidate to play his song “Dream On” at campaign events. Donald has been warned before not to play the song, and he has been called to the carpet […]

9y ago

Sharebeast, Nation’s Largest Music Sharing Site, Shut Down By FBI

Sharebeast, Nation’s Largest Music Sharing Site, Shut Down By FBI

Sharebeast.com, the largest illegal music-sharing site in the U.S., was seized by the Department of Justice on Friday, and its services shutdown; its site has been replaced with a warning banner from the FBI. In a related case, the website Albumjams.com and mp3pet.com have also been shuttered by the FBI and both sites now display […]

9y ago

Twitter: Jokes Are Copyrighted, Stolen Jokes Being Removed

Twitter: Jokes Are Copyrighted, Stolen Jokes Being Removed

Twitter is making it clear that jokes are copyrighted, removing “stolen” tweets and replacing them with a message stating that “This tweet… has been withheld in response to a report from the copyright holder,” according to a report from Engadget. As the Inquisitr has previously reported, this is certainly not the first time that the […]

9y ago

Piracy In UK Could Soon Be Punishable By 10 Years In Prison

Piracy In UK Could Soon Be Punishable By 10 Years In Prison

Pirates beware, the UK is considering making their punishment for piracy significantly worse. The sort of piracy being discussed is not the kind that involves ships. Piracy is a term used to describe the act of stealing digital goods from the internet. Many countries have anti-piracy laws in effect, but the proposed UK law will […]

9y ago

Beyoncé Faces $7M Plagiarism Lawsuit, Says Claims Are Untrue

Beyoncé Faces $7M Plagiarism Lawsuit, Says Claims Are Untrue

Singer Beyoncé Knowles, who recently faced backlash after a Good Morning America announcement, is now facing a $7.11 million lawsuit after a background singer accused her of stealing his song. Contact Music reports that Ahmad Lane, of South Carolina, says that Beyoncé, 33, stole the hit single “XO” from him. Lane claims that he wrote […]

9y ago

HBO Targets Torrents, Streams, And A Bar As ‘Game Of Thrones’ Enters Second Week

HBO Targets Torrents, Streams, And A Bar As ‘Game Of Thrones’ Enters Second Week

It took nearly a week, but HBO has finally gone after users who uploaded torrents of the first four episodes of Game of Thrones Season 5. As previously reported by the Inquisitr, the first four episodes of the new season of the hit HBO drama Game of Thrones were released to torrent websites on the […]

9y ago

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