Disney will send you a copyright strike if your face looks like Loki's

Re:Disney will send you a copyright strike if your face look... by Karunamon on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @12:03AM (#27600659)

This makes it prohibitively expensive for small-time creators.. not a fan. While individuals making good faith claims against actual infringers is a much smaller volume of DMCAs by sheer number, such a requirement would effectively lock them out of the system, doubly so if the scope of the infringement is massive.

A simpler fix imo would be to amend the "perjury" provision of the DMCA and append "or negligence". This clamps down on the most egregious abuses.

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Re:Disney will send you a copyright strike if your face look... by gjsman-1000 on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @12:10AM (#27600699)

That would work... but only if a small creator, you know, sued.

What I'm trying to get at though is that the creator filing the DMCA request should have to put something on the line to show they are operating in good faith, and I believe that something should be larger or smaller depending on the size of that creator.

The arbitrator in the picture is just to determine whether the DMCA has merit, in which case the something is sent back to the DMCA filer and it's a normal DMCA; or if the request does not have merit, in which case the something is sent to the person filed against.

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Re:Disney will send you a copyright strike if your face look... by risyachka on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @12:13AM (#27600715)

I'd argue that current situation hurts small creators way more. From what I've seen, they receive DMCAs much more often than they send them.

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