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posted by janrinok on Tuesday August 11 2015, @04:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the that's-my-word-you-can't-use-it dept.

Columbia Pictures, the studio behind the recent Adam Sandler film "Pixels," has gone on the warpath, targeting independent films on Vimeo that use the word "pixels" in the title, TorrentFreak reports.

According to a DMCA complaint lodged with Vimeo by anti-piracy organisation Entura International on behalf of Columbia Pictures, with which Vimeo has complied, 10 videos were targeted by the production company.

These include: "Pixels -- Life Buoy," filmmaker Dragos Bardac's project for his degree at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, Romania, uploaded in 2010; a dance music video called "Detuned Pixels -- Choco" uploaded in 2014; a short film called Pantone Pixels, uploaded in 2011; a video by graphic designer Franz Jeitz, announcing that he'll be speaking at the 2015 Pixels Festival; and, ironically, the award-winning short film "Pixels" by Patrick Jean which served as the inspiration for the Sandler film.

While Jean's film has been removed from his own account, it remains untouched on the account of One More Productions, which produced it.

The sweep also caught two unofficially uploaded copies of the Columbia Pictures film's trailer. A search for the word "pixels" on Vimeo reveals that some targeting may have been applied, returning some 9,050 results still live on the site at time of writing.

According to a complaint by NGO NeMe, which uploaded a video called "Pixels" in 2006, video creators are also being issued "strikes" along with the takedown. When a content creator receives three of these strikes, their channel will be suspended from the site.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2015, @08:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2015, @08:23PM (#221431)

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  • (Score: 2) by everdred on Tuesday August 11 2015, @09:09PM

    by everdred (110) on Tuesday August 11 2015, @09:09PM (#221450) Journal

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    Or an ISP, for that matter.