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Surely there are limits. Otherwise I could write a brief poem, copyright it, and start issuing DMCA take downs en masse saying that, say, the source code of You
by BobaFloutist 3y ago
Surely there are limits. Otherwise I could write a brief poem, copyright it, and start issuing DMCA take downs en masse saying that, say, the source code of Youtube plagiarized it.
This very obviously wouldn't work, right?
- Pigalowda 3y agoThat falls under prior art though i think
- BobaFloutist 3y agoNo, you would be lying about the poem being in the source code. In theory they'd need to take down Youtube until the counterclaim was filed, no?
- soerxpso 3y agoThat particular example wouldn't work because you can't copyright something that you were not the first to create. If you "write" a brief poem that already exists in the YouTube source code, you don't hold the copyright.
- crooked-v 3y agoThe point you're missing is that in the OP article, Warner Bros doesn't own anything that's in the source code of the app they're DMCAing. In other words, the hypothetical is about just lying the same way as the bigcorps do.
- 6510 3y agoSomeone was making dvd's from old internet videos with unknown owners. One by one the hundreds of grainy videos were taken down. Today you cant find a single one and they are not selling the dvd anymore.
- prometheon1 3y agoThere was also "Fox issues DMCA takedown against the original YouTube clip it put into Family Guy": https://www.neowin.net/news/fox-issues-dmca-takedown-against-the-original-youtube-clip-it-put-into-family-guy/ https://www.neowin.net/news/fox-issues-dmca-takedown-against...
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agoThe point being made is that youtube must take it down until that's shown or proven.