Today we see a handful of #publishing and #distribution companies sitting on the bulk of creative human works throughout the past 2 centuries.
Everyone from Sony EMG, Viacom, Disney, Gardner's, Penguin Random House... they sit pretty atop a pile of works they had no hand in and that was passed down to them.
Modern society is under the iron fist of an intellect property cartel, who helped to spur on the #DMCA, the Sonny Bono act, the various #patent wars and who continue to exploit #copyright.
I get 50 years of copyright. It reasonably balances the needs of the holders with the public's desires for freedom. 70 years is the upper limit, after which arguments for a longer term start to turn specious. 95 years is plainly absurd. Let's hope the term limits never get abolished, such that everything we do gets controlled by the few holders indefinitely.
#copyright #copyrightLaw #copyrightTerm #DMCA #DRM #intellectualProperty #publicDomain
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Cox in its long-running lawsuit with the music industry. More than a win for the ISP, the decision could reshape the DMCA.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/03/25/supreme-court-rules-for-cox-weakens-dmca/
The Supremes sided with an ISP instead of the music industry, ruling that Cox isn’t responsible for what its users do.
Back in 2018 Sony Music, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and dozens of other rightsholders sued Cox, arguing the company ignored over 163,000 infringement notices about subscribers illegally downloading more than 10,000 copyrighted songs.
The labels pointed to evidence that a #Cox manager overseeing piracy compliance told his team to “F the DMCA.”
A jury sided with the labels in 2019, awarding $1 billion. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals partially overturned that verdict in 2024, throwing out the vicarious liability finding but keeping the contributory infringement ruling and ordering a retrial.
The Supreme Court took up the case last June and has now reversed the remaining contributory liability finding entirely.
Fuck the #DMCA indeed.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/25/politics/music-industry-internet-supreme-court
In a major loss for the nation’s music industry, the Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a major internet service provider is not liable for copyright infringement because it failed to kick known copyright violators off its network.
@paul @ramsey @newsguyusa kinda like #OCILLA & #SafeHarbour regulations re: #Copyright|ed materials and #hosting only shield the provider from liability unless they knew about said acts…
GitHub Nukes 900+ Anime Piracy Repos and Forks, But Rejects ‘Circumvention’ Claims
#RemoveYourMedia #Anti-Piracy #aniwatch.to #crunchyroll #funimation #megacloud #VizMedia #Github #anime #DMCA
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