Post for which Twitter locked RS Prasad account: Full particulars

On Friday, the micro-blogging web site Twitter but once more got here underneath the scanner for blocking Union Minister of Law and Justice, Electronics and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad (RS Prasad) for allegedly violating the copyright act of the United States of America. 
Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad posted a tweet saying one thing extremely peculiar occurred to his account. The Minister stated that Twitter had denied entry to his account for nearly an hour on the alleged floor that there was a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of the USA.
Though the Twitter account of the Minister was seen for public viewing, Twitter didn’t enable anybody authorised to entry this explicit account to log in or make any publish, based on stories. 
When the minister tried to entry the Twitter account @rsprasad, Twitter despatched them a message saying, “Your account has been locked because Twitter received a compliant Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Notice for content posted to your Twitter account. Under the DMCA copyright owners can notify Twitter claiming that a user has infringed their copyrighted works. Upon receipt of a valid notice, Twitter will remove the identified material. Twitter maintains a repeat copyright infringer policy under repeat infringer accounts will be suspended. Accruing multiple DMCA strikes may lead to suspension of your account.”
As it seems, RS Prasad’s Twitter account was blocked for a publish from his account in 2017.
On sixteenth December 2017 when India celebrates Vijay Diwas, RS Prasad had posted a video which was a tribute collage for individuals who laid their lives down throughout 1971 the place India defeated Pakistan and Bangladesh was born as an unbiased nation.
The background music of that video had ‘Maa Tujhe Salaam’, sung by AR Rahman, produced by Sony Muslim.
Post by Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad that bought reported for Copyright Violations
This info got here to the fore after Twitter printed the Lumen knowledge the place it confirmed clearly that it was primarily based on this publish that the entry to Ravi Shankar Prasad’s Twitter deal with was blocked.
Lumen knowledge printed by Twitter
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a 1998 United States copyright legislation that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property Organization. It criminalizes the manufacturing and dissemination of know-how, units, or companies supposed to bypass measures that management entry to copyrighted works
The publish by RS Prasad that used Maa Tujhe Salaam because the background music was flagged as a copyright violation by the International Federation of Phonographic Industry (IFPI) as might be seen from the ‘sender’ info on the DMCA discover.
The publish was reported by Sony Music Entertainment, nevertheless, it’s pertinent to notice that DMCA is susceptible to be misused by many components. Several YouTube subscribers have additionally suffered as a result of legislation particularly because the DMCA provides no time restrict inside which an alleged copyright infringement is to be reported.
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is an organisation that represents the pursuits of the recording business worldwide. It is a non-profit members’ organisation registered in Switzerland and based in Italy in 1933.
In 2020, Twitter had eliminated the show image of Amit Shah’s account for ‘copyright violations’, had known as it inadvertent error
Twitter in November 2020 had eliminated the show image of Union Home Minister Amit Shah in response to a “report from the copyright holder”. A message was then displayed on the show picture part of Home Minister Amit Shah’s Twitter profile saying “Media not displayed”. The micro-blogging web site said within the message that the image has been eliminated after somebody claimed ‘copyright’ on it.
Twitter had locked Home Minister Amit Shah’s account after the copyright declare on his show picture, which was part of his official portrait based on Shah’s web site. 
Such motion is usually taken if a person claims copyright on the picture that’s being utilized by somebody of their Twitter profile. However, to date, it was assumed that such motion would solely be taken after fundamental verification of such claims.
Twitter, after its unilateral motion, had issued a clarification calling this motion taken by it towards Amit Shah’s Twitter profile an ‘inadvertent error’. 
A Twitter spokesperson had stated, “Due to an inadvertent error, we temporarily locked this account under our global copyright policies. This decision was reversed immediately and the account is fully functional”.