{"id":63203,"date":"2022-03-27T09:02:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T09:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=63203"},"modified":"2022-03-27T09:02:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T09:02:03","slug":"oscar-contender-targets-official-oscars-website-with-a-dmca-takedown-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=63203","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Contender Targets Official Oscars Website With a DMCA Takedown Notice"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"paraThe Oscars<\/a> are the most prestigious film awards and millions of movie fans are looking forward to seeing who the new winners will be.<\/p>\n

For filmmakers, it\u2019s an incredible honor to be named among the world\u2019s greatest. Even being nominated is an accolade many people can only dream of. <\/p>\n

This year, the Spanish drama film \u201cParallel Mothers\u201d<\/a> (Madres Paralelas) is among the lucky few. The film was put on the shortlist last December and in February it received nominations for best actress with Pen\u00e9lope Cruz and best music score.<\/p>\n

The film\u2019s production company El Deseo<\/a> must be delighted with these nominations. Most filmmakers would proudly share this achievement with the rest of the world. However, El Deseo inadvertently took steps that run counter to that.<\/p>\n

Filmmaker Targets Oscars.org<\/h2>\n

Like many other filmmakers, the Spanish film production company is sending takedown notices to sites and services that link to pirated copies of their films. In most cases, these notices call out pirate sites, but in a request sent to Google<\/a>, the official Oscars.org website is targeted instead. <\/p>\n

The movie company asks Google to remove the official Oscars shortlist announcement<\/a>, which came out last December. \u201cParallel Mothers\u201d is indeed mentioned there, but not in a piracy context of course.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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This error is bad enough by itself, but there is more. A brief glance at other takedown notices from El Deseo \u2013 which are all sent by its anti-piracy partner 3ANTS<\/a> \u2013 shows that the company also asked Google to remove a harmless page from the Austin Film Society<\/a>, which features the film \u201cThe Skin I Live In.\u201d<\/p>\n

More Mistakes<\/h2>\n

We spotted another awards mistake as well, as the film company also asked Google to remove a news article from OTTplay<\/a>, featuring a BAFTA nomination for \u201cParallel Mothers\u201d. Again, there is no trace of piracy activity on that site. <\/p>\n

The OTTplay website<\/a> leads us into another rabbit hole. The site, which provides an overview of where people can stream movies and TV-shows legally, doesn\u2019t appear to host any infringing content. However, several rightsholders believe otherwise. <\/p>\n

A glance at the latest accusations against the site reveals that Netflix, Amazon, and Columbia Pictures<\/a> all mistake the service for a pirate site. <\/p>\n

Netflix, for example, asked Google to remove a news article<\/a> about the popularity of \u201cThe Money Heist\u201d and Amazon flagged a page<\/a> informing people that they can watch \u201cThe Boys Presents: Diabolical\u201d legally on Amazon Prime.<\/p>\n

All in all, the mistakes above show that, in some cases, takedown notices can actually shoot the senders in the foot. Luckily, Google caught all the errors we outlined here, so no real harm was done. <\/p>\n

As for El Deseo, they have definitely earned a nomination for the most counterproductive DMCA notice of the year. So, if \u201cParallel Mothers\u201d doesn\u2019t win an Oscar on Monday, they still have hope for another award.<\/p>\n

From: TF<\/a>, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.<\/p>\n

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The Oscars are the most prestigious film awards and millions of movie fans are looking forward to seeing who the new winners will be. For filmmakers, it\u2019s an incredible honor to be named among the world\u2019s greatest. Even being nominated is an accolade many people can only dream of. This year, the Spanish drama film […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-torrent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}