{"id":22423,"date":"2016-10-26T14:08:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T21:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=22423"},"modified":"2016-10-26T14:08:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T21:08:03","slug":"samsung-attempts-copyright-censorship-of-parody-of-their-exploding-galaxy-note-7-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=22423","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Attempts Copyright Censorship of Parody Of Their Exploding Galaxy Note 7 Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/_GhODn4FRoE\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So gamer &#8220;HitmanNiko&#8221; modified Grand Theft Auto to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gta5-mods.com\/weapons\/samsung-galaxy-note-7-bomb\">add in a new weapon<\/a>: A Samsung Galaxy Note 7, which can be thrown like a grenade. (It replaces a weapon called &#8220;the sticky bomb.&#8221;) Some folks uploaded videos of themselves using the new weapon, because hell, it&#8217;s funny.<\/p>\n<p>And then Samsung used DMCA notices against these videos, <a href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/teTNN\">in at least one case<\/a> successfully.<\/p>\n<p>Something like these videos &#8211; which combine parody with commentary on a major current news story &#8211; are obviously fair use. But a censorship-loving company like Samsung has no reason not to abuse copyright laws in this way. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2016\/10\/samsung-sets-its-reputation-fire-bogus-dmca-takedown-notices\">As EFF notes<\/a>, there&#8217;s a possibility of that changing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If it doesn\u2019t have a viable copyright claim, why did Samsung send DMCA takedown notices? We asked Samsung\u2019s counsel (the <a href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/teTNN\">notices<\/a> were sent on Samsung\u2019s behalf by the 900-lawyer firm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulhastings.com\/\">Paul Hastings LLP<\/a>) but received no response. It appears that Samsung took the easy path to removing content it did not like by making a copyright claim where none existed. DMCA takedown notices are, by far, the quickest and easiest way to get speech removed from the Internet. That makes them irresistible for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/takedowns\/retailer-tries-censor-photoshop-disaster-advertisement\">companies<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/takedowns\/attempt-silence-political-speech-right-wing-watch\">individuals<\/a>, and even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2014\/05\/state-censorship-copyright-spanish-firm-abuses-DMCA\">governments<\/a> eager to censor online speech.<\/p>\n<p>DMCA abuse flourishes because, in practice, companies that send improper notices don\u2019t face sufficiently serious consequences. This issue is currently before the Supreme Court in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/cases\/lenz-v-universal\">Lenz v. Universal<\/a>. In that case, EFF represents Stephanie Lenz who posted a short video to YouTube showing her toddler son dancing to a Prince song. After Universal sent a takedown notice, Lenz sued arguing that the video was clearly fair use and \u00a0the notice was sent in bad faith. Last year, the Ninth Circuit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2015\/09\/takedown-senders-must-consider-fair-use-ninth-circuit-rules\">ruled<\/a> that copyright holders must consider fair use before sending a takedown notice. Unfortunately, the appeals court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2015\/10\/eff-seeks-rehearing-dancing-baby-case-ensure-fair-use-gets-real-protection\">also set a very high bar<\/a> for enforcing that standard. It held that senders of false infringement notices could be excused so long as they <i>subjectively<\/i> believed that the material was infringing, no matter how unreasonable that belief. Lenz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/press\/releases\/eff-asks-supreme-court-review-dancing-baby-copyright-case\">has asked the Supreme Court<\/a> to review that aspect of the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>In the next week or two, the Supreme Court will decide whether or not it will hear Lenz\u2019s appeal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So gamer &#8220;HitmanNiko&#8221; modified Grand Theft Auto to add in a new weapon: A Samsung Galaxy Note 7, which can be thrown like a grenade. (It replaces a weapon called &#8220;the sticky bomb.&#8221;) Some folks uploaded videos of themselves using &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=22423\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-speech-censorship-copyright-law-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22424,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22423\/revisions\/22424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}