Marty McGuire

Posts Tagged copyright

2024
Fri Mar 8

NYTimes trying to prove that we cannot have nice things on the open web. 🤬

https://www.404media.co/nytimes-files-copyright-takedowns-against-hundreds-of-wordle-clones/

Per the Times’ complaint:

The Times’s Wordle copyright includes the unique elements of its immensely popular game, such as the 5x6 grid, green tiles to indicate correct guesses, yellow tiles to indicate the correct letter but the wrong place within the word, and the keyboard directly beneath the grid. Times’s Wordle copyright includes the unique elements of its immensely popular game, such as the 5x6 grid, green tiles to indicate correct guesses, yellow tiles to indicate the correct letter but the wrong place within the word, and the keyboard directly beneath the grid.

Wow, folks. Careful about how you place keyboards relative to grids.

#copyright #bullshit #nytimes
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2021
Fri May 14
🔖 Bookmarked Pluralistic: 08 May 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/08/copyfraud/#beethoven-just-wrote-music

“The resulting mess firmly favors attackers (wage stealers, fraudsters, censors, bullies) over defenders (creators, critics). Attackers don’t need to waste their time making art, which leaves them with the surplus capacity to master the counterintuitive “legal” framework.”

#copyright #silos
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2020
Mon Nov 16
🔖 Bookmarked Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back - The GitHub Blog https://github.blog/2020-11-16-standing-up-for-developers-youtube-dl-is-back/
#github #youtube-dl #copyright #dmca
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2019
Thu Feb 28
🔖 Bookmarked Out of the Clouds and into the weeds: Cloudflare’s approach to abuse in new products https://blog.cloudflare.com/out-of-the-clouds-and-into-the-weeds-cloudflares-approach-to-abuse-in-new-products/

“We believe the building blocks that we provide for other people to share and access content online should be provided in a content-neutral way. We also believe that our users should understand the policies we have in place to address complaints and law enforcement requests, the type of requests we receive, and the way we respond to those requests.”

#cloudflare #web #hosting #takedowns #copyright #governments #law
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