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Film, music, media and digital culture: the stories and moments that move the mainstream.
Remix, reaction and commentary rely on other people's work. UK government guidance lists a few narrow exceptions to copyright, including parody, criticism, review and quotation. Here is what it says and what it leaves open.
A song in the background, a clip from a film, a sample from a track: how YouTube's Content ID, copyright claims, disputes and strikes work, and why a claim is not the same as a strike. A plain guide.
Why do some posts spread everywhere while most do not? What one widely cited study of a billion online sharing events found about broadcasts and person-to-person sharing, and what it cannot tell us.
