The RIAA has delisted five YouTube “Converter” websites from Google using the DMCA Anti-Circumvention “Takedown” provisions of the DMCA (17 USC 1201 et seq.) See https://www.copyright.gov/1201/2018/ for Librarian of Congress Exemptions.
What happens to a public-domain work when it gets translated? Let’s go over the pitfalls.
“1. The Municipalities and their agents and employees shall not deprive Indigent people
facing prosecution in their Municipal Courts of the right to counsel. As such, no Indigent
person shall be charged with criminal, non-criminal traffic, or ordinance violations that
carry the possibility of a Sentence of Incarceration without being advised of their right to
counsel and provided with such Counsel unless the individual defendant knowingly,
voluntarily, and intelligently waives such right.”
“2. It is contrary to the principles of due process and equal treatment enshrined in the
Constitution of South Carolina and the U.S. Constitution to deprive people of their
constitutional rights simply because they are indigent.”
The latest LIEbowitz shenaniganery has him facing incarceration plus $500 per day in fines if he doesn’t prove his Grandfather’s death caused him to miss a court appearance. Pro tip: Don’t lie to the judge.
Losing her appeal, Taylor Swift now heads to trial on whether her use of the phrase “Playas Gonna Play, Haters Gonna Hate” is copyright infringement. She used the phrase in her 2014 hit song “Shake It Off”, from the album “1989”. The Plaintiffs are the authors of the 3LW song “Playas Gon’ Play”.
