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DMCA

66 articles stable

A $14.46 million Activision judgment and AI-related publisher claims show the DMCA’s continued reach from anti-cheat enforcement to training-data disputes.

Who they are

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is the U.S. copyright framework at the center of coverage about platform takedowns, anti-circumvention controls, online-service liability, and disputes over copying or removing protected material. Stories place it as a legal tool used by companies including Google, Apple, Nintendo, Activision, and rights holders, while also making it a constraint on platforms, developers, and publishers.

The recent arc

Recent coverage shifted from the DMCA’s familiar platform-enforcement role toward disputes at the intersection of software, games, and generative AI. In 2023, Twitter’s source-code leak was removed by GitHub following a DMCA notice; Nintendo’s stance helped derail Dolphin’s planned Steam release; and Google sued over allegedly fraudulent DMCA notices aimed at as many as 620,000 URLs. Sony’s PS5 Slim disc-drive pairing requirement was also linked, though only as a likely explanation, to anti-piracy rules.

The tension

The recurring tension is between copyright enforcement and the latitude of internet and software intermediaries. YouTube’s safe-harbor role has long drawn artist criticism, while GitHub, Google, Cloudflare, and other services face pressure to remove material or police abuse without becoming liable for users’ conduct. The same divide appears in product repair and emulation: anti-circumvention measures can protect rightsholders while limiting access to hardware, code, and preservation tools.

Why it matters

If the current trajectory holds, DMCA disputes will increasingly define how AI companies handle attribution and copyrighted inputs, how platforms authenticate notices, and how game and device makers enforce technical controls. Court outcomes involving OpenAI, The Intercept, Activision, and EngineOwning suggest the statute remains adaptable to new digital conduct, but its application to AI and intermediary liability remains contested rather than settled.

DMCA has appeared in 66 articles since 2014-12. Coverage peaked in 2023Q4 with 3 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside YouTube, Google, Twitch, GitHub.

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Coverage Timeline

2026-08-01
Ars Technica 7 related

A US judge largely denies Perplexity and three data scraper firms' bid to dismiss Reddit's lawsuit over claims of copyright law violations under DMCA

On Friday, a judge largely denied a motion to dismiss from a web scraper, SerpApi, which is accused of conspiring with Perplexity AI …

2025-10-23
New York Times 19 related

Reddit files a lawsuit against Perplexity and three data scraping companies, accusing them of illegally stealing its data by scraping Google search results

comparing them to “bank robbers” and accusing them of sidestepping its controls to scrape its data and get rich off the AI gravy train. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... Andrew Curran / @andrewcurr...

2025-09-22
The Verge 3 related

The RIAA amends its lawsuit against Suno, now accusing it of unlawfully “stream ripping” songs on YouTube and violating the DMCA

The updated complaint alleges that Suno knowingly circumvented YouTube's protections against unauthorized copying.

2024-11-24
The Intercept 3 related

A federal court allows a claim by The Intercept that DMCA prevents OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline but throws out its claims against Microsoft

Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept :

2024-05-30
IGN 15 related

A US federal court awards Activision $14.46M+ in its 2022 civil lawsuit accusing EngineOwning of violating the DMCA by selling Call of Duty cheating software

Owned.  —  A high-profile video game cheat maker has been ordered to pay Activision over $14 million in damages and hand over its domain name.

2024-02-14
Bloomberg Law 9 related

A US judge says OpenAI must face a claim of violating CA unfair competition law by using copyrighted books, but dismisses some claims like DMCA violations

2023-11-14
TorrentFreak 3 related

Filing: Google sues two men in California who allegedly used 65 Google accounts to spam Google with fraudulent DMCA takedown notices, targeting up to 620K URLs

Two men who allegedly used 65 Google accounts to bombard Google with fraudulent DMCA takedown notices targeting up to 620,000 URLs …

2023-10-25
The Verge 1 related

Q&A with Harvard law professor and Creative Commons co-founder Lawrence Lessig on AI's impact on social media and free speech, copyright use, TikTok, and more

After 30 years teaching law, the internet policy legend is as worried as you'd think about AI and TikTok … Mastodon: @michellemanafy@journa.host . LinkedIn: Andrei Nicolae Cuta , Rick Lane , and Paul ...

Video Games Chronicle 15 related

Sony's new PS5 Slim disc drive requires an internet connection to pair with the console for the first time, likely due to the DMCA's rules to prevent piracy

THE ONLINE REQUIREMENT HAS RAISED PRESERVATION CONCERNS  —  The upcoming optional disc drive for the PlayStation 5 will require …

2023-09-26
iFixit News 35 related

iPhone 15 Pro Max teardown: a redesigned frame helps with replacing the back glass, a tetraprism periscope lens, software lockdown makes repairs hard, and more

as long as Apple is the one fixing it Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider : iPhone 15 Pro Max teardown reveals few internal changes, digs at repairability Chris Barylick / O'Grady's PowerPage : iFixit posts t...

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Quarterly Coverage

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TEXXR tracks 59 tech news articles mentioning DMCA, dating back to December 2014. The biggest stories include Filing: some Twitter source code was leaked by user “FreeSpeechEnthusiast” on GitHub,... and YouTube to pay legal fees for a few video creators who are targets of unfair DMCA.... Frequently covered alongside YouTube, Twitch, GitHub, Ernesto, and Google.

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