Granted. Two weeks later, Disney has legislated the concept of public domain out of existence.
Damn, I guess ya can’t beat the mouse.
“And what will compel me? The paw of monkey?”
“The fist of mouse.”
DMCA requests are made under penalty of perjury. “The penalty for a federal perjury crime includes fines and imprisonment for up to five years. Judges have the discretion to use leniency (including probation instead of prison) when proper.” (https://www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-charges/perjury.html) So if a false request is made of you make sure you press charges.
Of course this doesn’t matter in the real world. All the large players (youtube) have processes that look like DMCA, but are in fact their own creation and so a takedown isn’t actually a DMCA takedown. A good lawyer could probably convince the courts that the process is close enough and should have the same perjury penalty, but this will cost a lot of your money and bounce around in appeals court for years.
You’re right. The bigger problem is giving private entities so much power to rule in copyright disputes and inflict punishment with no real oversight.
Granted. A popular AI detection tool has an error and causes all major IP to be forced into the public domain. With everything available, now every movie/tv show/video game devolves to IP soup and new ideas get buried under endless variations of the same 25 popular characters fighting
I think that might lead to better media in the long-run even if it’s with less variety of characters. It would force studios to directly compete instead of monopolizing their IP to churn out cheap content and capitalize on people’s nostalgia.
That does explain the last ten years. Appreciate it.