Copyright infringement
Illegal usage of copyrighted works
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| 2024 | Ownership of Dailymotion transferred from Vivendi to Canal+, signaling a strategic shift in the company's corporate structure. |
| September 2024 | Dailymotion announced a new inactive content policy where content without activity in the last 13 months may be archived and potentially permanently removed. |
| July 2024 | Hard Discount Philippines Inc. (HDPI) reported cumulative losses of over 3 billion pesos in three years, with a loss of approximately 1.5 billion pesos in 2023, a 110% increase from the previous year. |
| July 2024 | IPOPHL ordered Dali to remove three products from their shelves that closely resembled NutriAsia's brands, specifically the 'Kulina' and 'Rajah Puro' condiments which intentionally mimicked UFC and Datu Puti. |
| June 2024 | NutriAsia initiated legal action against Hard Discount Philippines Inc. (Dali's local operator) for trademark infringement, unfair competition, and copyright infringement through the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL). |
| May 29 2024 | DTI issued a show cause order to Dali, addressing 13 complaint instances and indicating they would seek DILG assistance to investigate sanitary issues at Dali locations. |
| May 16 2024 | Consumer advocacy group Malayang Konsyumer filed a complaint with the Fair Trade and Enforcement Bureau of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) regarding Dali's alleged unfair business practices, including inaccurate pricing, weighing of chicken, and incorrect invoice items. |
| April 2024 | Dali increased its number of stores to 630, all located in Luzon, with plans to reach 950 stores by the end of the year. |
| January 2024 | Singapore-based equity firm Venturi Partners invested in Dali. |
| January 2024 | DEG, the investment arm of the German state-owned development bank KfW, invested in Dali. |
| 2023 | Malaysian-based private equity firm Creador invested in Dali's expansion. |
| June 26 2023 |
Content ID
Jose Teran was sentenced to 70 months in prison by Judge Douglas L. Rayes for one of the largest music-royalty frauds using YouTube's Content ID system.
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| March 2023 | The Asian Development Bank (ADB) invested in Dali to support the retail chain's expansion. |
| 2022 |
ZX Spectrum clones
Mario Pratto developed the Centoventotto, an unofficial ZX Spectrum clone using PLD (Programmable Logic Device) technology.
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| 2022 |
Plagiarism from Wikipedia
The Government of the United Kingdom was found to have plagiarized content in its 'Levelling Up' white paper from Wikipedia.
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| 2022 | VidAngel relaunched under new ownership, continuing its streaming service with content filtering capabilities. |
| 2022 | VidAngel relaunched with a new ad campaign developed by Harmon Brothers. Under CEO Bill Aho's leadership, the company's subscriber base doubled within the first year |
| August 2022 | Philippine-based private equity firm Navegar made an undisclosed investment into Dali, supporting the company's growth. |
| June 1 2022 | Dailymotion removed the picture-in-picture view mode which previously allowed browsing the site while playing a video in the lower-right corner of the screen. |
| 2021 | U.S. Chamber of Commerce published the IP Index, ranking countries based on their copyright protection scores, with Vietnam, Pakistan, Egypt, Nigeria, Brunei, Algeria, Venezuela, and Argentina receiving the lowest scores. |
| 2021 |
Content ID
YouTube recorded nearly 1.5 billion Content ID claims, with 759.5 million claims in the second half of the year, including 4,840 claims by copyright owners.
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| 2021 | VidAngel was split into two separate companies: VidAngel Entertainment (filtering business) and Angel Studios (crowdfunded content platform). Bill Aho, former CEO of ClearPlay, became the new CEO of VidAngel |
| November 6 2021 |
Content ID
Jose Teran and Webster Batista were charged by a federal grand jury for creating a fake music publishing company and fraudulently claiming 50,000 songs using YouTube's Content ID system.
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| 2020 |
ZX Spectrum clones
Jan Kučera (a.k.a. LMN128) developed the eLeMeNt ZX, a unique ZX Spectrum clone with 100% hardware and display timings aligned with digital video and sound output, including HDMI support.
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| 2020 |
ZX Spectrum clones
A 1 MB version of the ZXDOS was released, which is compatible with the SpecNext core, continuing the ZX-Uno project development.
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| 2020 |
Plagiarism from Wikipedia
Elsevier retracted a book for extensively plagiarizing large passages from Wikipedia, highlighting a significant academic publishing ethics violation.
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| 2020 | VidAngel reached a settlement with the four studios, agreeing to pay $9.9 million and emerging from bankruptcy. The settlement prohibited VidAngel from streaming content from the four studios that sued it. |
| 2020 |
IBM PC compatible
Apple introduced Apple silicon (ARM-based processors), once again diverging from the IBM PC compatible architecture and becoming an exception to the standard PC design.
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| September 2020 | Dailymotion partnered with Mi Video, Xiaomi's global video app, to provide access to its content catalogues. |
| February 2020 | Dali opened its first store in Santa Rosa, Laguna, marking the beginning of its retail expansion in the Philippines. |
| January 2020 | European Commission releases a report highlighting copyright infringement in 13 countries, specifically noting Saudi Arabia's failure to stop piracy by BeoutQ and the resulting economic harm to EU businesses. |
| 2019 | A Los Angeles jury ordered VidAngel to pay over $62 million in damages to the studios involved in the lawsuit. |
| September 1 2019 |
ZX Spectrum clones
The IODO (Issue One Dot One) ZX Spectrum clone was created in Portugal by Consultório da Paula (now PSiTech), replicating the original 16 KB ZX Spectrum issue one.
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| April 2019 |
Content ID
WatchMojo released a video highlighting alleged Content ID abuse, estimating that rights holders had unlawfully claimed over $2 billion from 2014 to 2019.
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| March 2019 | The New York Times reports that beIN Media Group suffered billions of dollars in losses due to the cancellation of its exclusive contract with the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). |
| 2018 |
Content ID
YouTube released 'Copyright Match' feature, initially available to channels with over 100,000 cumulative views, derived from the Content ID system.
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| 2018 |
Content ID
Google has invested at least $100 million into the Content ID system, continuing to refine and expand its digital copyright management capabilities.
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| December 2018 |
Content ID
TheFatRat complained that Content ID gave preference to a scammer who claimed ownership of his content and stole his revenue.
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| September 2018 |
Content ID
A German university professor uploaded classical music performance videos and received copyright violations, with Deutsche Grammophon refusing to lift some claims despite expired copyrights.
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| August 7 2018 |
Disney v. VidAngel
U.S. District Court Judge David Nuffer dismissed VidAngel's lawsuit after the company reportedly decided to drop the case.
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| January 2018 |
Content ID
A YouTube uploader creating a white noise generator received copyright notices for a video containing only white noise.
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| 2017 | beoutQ begins misappropriating sports content owned by beIN Sports, causing significant economic damage to the media company. |
| 2017 | The website underwent a major redesign, and the wordmark was recoloured to light blue. |
| October 2017 | VidAngel filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as a legal strategy to protect the company against ongoing lawsuits and reorganize its business, allowing the company to continue operations while pausing legal proceedings. |
| September 2017 |
Disney v. VidAngel
VidAngel filed a lawsuit in a Utah federal court against studio affiliates seeking a declaratory judgment that its new streaming model is legal.
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| August 24 2017 |
Disney v. VidAngel
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the injunction against VidAngel, citing that the Family Movie Act does not defend violation of copyright protection measures.
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| August 2 2017 |
Disney v. VidAngel
Judge Birotte rejected VidAngel's request for appeal or clarification of the injunction.
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| June 2017 | VidAngel announced a new streaming service for $9.99 per month to filter content from Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and HBO after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied their request to lift an injunction. Netflix explicitly stated they did not endorse or approve VidAngel's technology. |
| January 2017 |
Disney v. VidAngel
VidAngel was found in contempt of court for continuing to add titles in violation of the court's order and was fined $10,231.20 in legal costs.
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| January 2017 | Dailymotion was permanently blocked in Russia by the Moscow City Court for repeatedly violating copyright law by providing access to illegal TV content. |
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