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The stimulus bill includes significant changes to copyright law and enforcement, the Biden administration may have to build a presidential Twitter following from scratch and we round up the startups that shut down this year. This is your Daily Crunch for December 22, 2020.
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While we wrote several stories yesterday about the tech implications of the new stimulus bill (and highlighted it in yesterday’s Daily Crunch), more details are emerging — like the fact that it will make illegal streaming for profit a felony, punishable by fines or up to 10 years of imprisonment.
The language of the bill seems to focus on commercial piracy services, rather than individuals or Twitch streamers — a point that one of its sponsors, Senator Thom Tillis, emphasized in a statement, claiming that “no individual streamer has to worry about the fear of prosecution.”
On the copyright front, the bill also creates a new Copyright Claims Board to handle copyright infringement claims of up to $30,000.
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Image Credits: Bill Dickinson / Getty Images
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Image Credits: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg / Getty Images
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Image Credits: Jay Castor / Unsplash
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Image Credits: Dual Dual / Getty Images
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