DMCA Notices Took Down 20,517 GitHub Projects Last Year
With over 420 million code repositories, GitHub takes pride in being the largest and most advanced development platform in the world. As with other platforms that host user-generated content, this massive code library occasionally runs into copyright infringement troubles. Pirate Devs In some cases, people use code without obtaining permission from the creators, while others use GitHub to store pirated books or even music. And there...
DSA: Google Reports Billions of Deletions on Google Play & Shopping
Late last month we reported on the latest copyright claim data made available by YouTube. In the first half of 2023, YouTube said it processed 980 million Content ID claims, a 25% increase compared to a year earlier. Given the upward trajectory, soon there will be a billion Content ID copyright claims every six months, which rounds to over two billion claims every year. To put that into perspective, if the world currently has five...
