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Guinness World Records Did An Automated Copyright Strike Oopsie On YouTubers

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/11/guinness-world-records-did-an-automated-copyright-strike-oopsie-on-youtubers/

This is and will keep happening. As complicated a landscape as copyright law is, the idea of automating the policing of copyright infringement without creating all kinds of collateral damage is sim…

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1341819

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2 comments

Synthead

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Guinness World Records created copyright infringement reports for any video that that mentions "world record" or uses their logo in thumbnails.

Saved you a click.

CanofBeanz

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I did hear about this, supposedly they did issue a couple false strikes but the latest ones were YouTubers using the Guinness world record logo in the thumbnail, which would be an infringement.