wraggster
August 13th, 2015, 20:36
An anti-piracy group acting on behalf of Columbia Pictures has hit video hosting site Vimeo with a slew of copyright takedowns to prevent piracy of its Adam Sandler summer film, Pixels.
Entura International sent the video hosting site a number of DCMA take-down notices on videos using the below criteria (https://www.chillingeffects.org/notices/11039982):
"Pixels", "Pantone Pixels", "Pixels", "Pixels - HD Trailer", "Detuned Pixels - Choco", "Pixels - Life Buoy", "Pixels: Redeye @ Kettering", "Pixels Festival 2015", "Love Pixels- VJLoops", "Pixels Official Trailer (2015) - Adam Sandler, Peter Dinklage"
This resulted in a number of indie projects being taken down including
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WA7dXiKtFA.
Ironically, this took down the film’s trailer, as well as the award-winning short film on which Pixels is based (https://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-group-hits-indie-creators-for-using-the-word-pixels-150808/).
Speaking to Kotaku (http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2015/08/09/copyright-trolls-get-videos-pulled-using-word-pixels), Vimeo says that it is looking into this, and that they are going to restore everything in the nextfew days.
“The videos were takedown in accordance with Vimeo’s DMCA policy,” a spokesperson told Kotaku. “However, Vimeo’s Trust & Safety team are further evaluating the claims made and will have an update in the coming days.”
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/pixels-film-copyright-claims-hit-indie-videos/0154042
Entura International sent the video hosting site a number of DCMA take-down notices on videos using the below criteria (https://www.chillingeffects.org/notices/11039982):
"Pixels", "Pantone Pixels", "Pixels", "Pixels - HD Trailer", "Detuned Pixels - Choco", "Pixels - Life Buoy", "Pixels: Redeye @ Kettering", "Pixels Festival 2015", "Love Pixels- VJLoops", "Pixels Official Trailer (2015) - Adam Sandler, Peter Dinklage"
This resulted in a number of indie projects being taken down including
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WA7dXiKtFA.
Ironically, this took down the film’s trailer, as well as the award-winning short film on which Pixels is based (https://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-group-hits-indie-creators-for-using-the-word-pixels-150808/).
Speaking to Kotaku (http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2015/08/09/copyright-trolls-get-videos-pulled-using-word-pixels), Vimeo says that it is looking into this, and that they are going to restore everything in the nextfew days.
“The videos were takedown in accordance with Vimeo’s DMCA policy,” a spokesperson told Kotaku. “However, Vimeo’s Trust & Safety team are further evaluating the claims made and will have an update in the coming days.”
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/pixels-film-copyright-claims-hit-indie-videos/0154042