For purposes of copyright infringement , the verb "copy" is actually a term of art requiring a finding of "substantial similarity" of protectable expression.

To the contrary, large internet corporations are very strong advocates of protecting a true owner's intellectual property rights and do not want to be hosts to copyright infringements . The proof is on the internet, where at one point or another, most people have seen that well-known message online on YouTube claiming a video is no longer available and has been removed due to copyright infringement ; this shows that these corporations take intellectual property infringement seriously.

However, the DMCA also facilitated the growth of services such as YouTube, MP3tunes, and many social media platforms by allowing them to avoid copyright infringement liability through "safe harbor" provisions.

(10) Liability for copyright infringement is divided into three tiers, providing courts with standards used to assess potential direct and indirect infringement.

It aims to reduce copyright infringement over peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.

Rightscorp will soon represent authors and publishing companies by monitoring and monetizing their digital assets against copyright infringement and illegal downloading.

According to Rightscorp, it will soon represent authors and publishing companies by monitoring and monetising of their digital assets against copyright infringement and illegal downloading.

RAPPER Azealia Banks has had an online music profile shut down because of alleged copyright infringement .

Service providers such as RapidShare have a "market observation duty" which require the use of search engines such as Google, Facebook or Twitter, and possibly even web crawlers, to identify continuing copyright infringements through its servers of the works for which it received copyright infringement notifications (Paragraphs 59-60).

Misr25 YouTube account has been terminated due to third party claims of copyright infringement regarding the material posted by the channel.

Both articles conclude that a copyright infringement case was formerly a viable avenue for a screenwriter who had a significant portion of his screenplay plagiarized; however, over the last two decades, studios/networks have devised a virtually fool proof defense to such claims and have prevailed in essentially all copyright infringement cases against them.