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DMCA

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66 articles accelerating

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 2026Q3 with 3 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside YouTube, Google, Twitch, Reddit.

Articles
66
mentions
Velocity
+200.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
+2.000
velocity change
Sources
34
publications

Coverage Timeline

2026-08-02
Ars Technica 5 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

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 …

2025-09-22
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 …

2023-08-30
TorrentFreak 6 related

Letter: the UFC, the NBA, and the NFL tell the USPTO that the DMCA needs to be updated so live content can be removed “instantaneously or near-instantaneously”

August 23, 2023 SUBMITTED VIA FEDERAL E-RULEMAKING PORTAL United States Patent … Will Shanklin / Engadget : The NBA, NFL and UFC want instantaneous DMCA takedowns Luke Bouma / Cord Cutters News : The ...

2023-05-29
PC Gamer 24 related

The developers behind open-source GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin say Nintendo sent Valve a DMCA takedown notice to block Dolphin's impending release on Steam

Unfortunately pretty much everyone has been getting the legal details wrong, incl. … Tweets: @ethangach : NEW: Nintendo breaks silence on making Valve remove the Dolphin emulator from Steam. A spokesp...

2023-03-27
New York Times 40 related

Filing: some Twitter source code was leaked by user “FreeSpeechEnthusiast” on GitHub, which removed the code to comply with Twitter's DMCA notice on March 24

The leak adds to the challenges facing the Elon Musk-owned company, which is trying to unmask the person responsible and any other people who downloaded the code.

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TEXXR tracks 61 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.

Key Moments

2026Q3regulation -33pts

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