Quite a few people have raised concerns about #trademarks because of the #OpenVox name and the use of the #puppet command names and paths. We thought we'd talk a bit about trademark and why we don't have an #infringement concern, and describe our roadmap to changing some of the paths in safe and non-disruptive ways. https://overlookinfratech.com/2025/03/20/a-whirlwind-conversation-on-trademarks/
#Music labels will regret coming for the #InternetArchive , sound historian says
On Thursday, music labels sought to add nearly 500 more sound #recordings to a lawsuit accusing the Internet Archive (IA) of mass #copyright #infringement through its #Great78Project, which seeks to digitize all 3 million three-minute recordings published on 78 revolutions-per-minute (RPM) records from about 1898 to the 1950s.
Copyright madness: YouTube seems to doubt whether Shakespeare is in the public domain
One of the darker threads of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) is how complex copyright enforcement systems can be abused, for example by sending Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown requests for material that is perfectly legal. A recent post on the Public Citizen blog offers an extreme example of this blight. Here’s the summary of what happened:
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#counternotice #dmca #google #infringement #nonProfit #publicDomain #registration #shakespeare #takedown #usCopyrightOffice #youtube
