So, like what happens someone does copyright infringement (ex. photos, videos, sounds), does scratch even care about copyright infringement? In the history of scratch, i have never seen any project be taken down by copyright infringement, is this okay? do you need to report something if they do copyright infringement?
Why have i never saw a project be taken down by copyright infringement?

I'm not a lawyer so don't quote me on this, but Scratch is an educational website so I'm pretty sure everything you upload in your projects is protected by Fair Use as long as it's not for commercial purposes…

That being said, there was a pac-man project that got taken down because of a copyright strike, so…

There's a page in the Legal section at the bottom of the page that covers copyright…

https://scratch.mit.edu/DMCA/

It is rare that copyright holders would take action, but it could happen. If in doubt, always seek permission from the rights holder before using any copyrighted material.

Try looking at this Wiki article.

leapinleopardstar wrote:

Try looking at this Wiki article.

Interesting reading but I'm not 100% convinced. The paragraph above that one appears to contradict it.

Let's be honest, if Nintendo came along with a DMCA notice to remove a project that is an exact clone of a Mario game, Scratch aren't going to argue…

I believe everything on Scratch is under fair use due to Scratch's Creative Commons License; at least for sounds.

colinmacc wrote:

Interesting reading but I'm not 100% convinced. The paragraph above that one appears to contradict it.

Fighting a DMCA takedown is a battle.

If you receive a DMCA takedown notice, that's like someone threatening you with a pocket knife and telling you to take your project offline. You do it immediately or else you'll get stabbed.

Now, you can decide to just walk away, or you could pull out a sword (a counter notice claiming that your project was fair use). Maybe the aggressor says, “Woah, you're right,” and you can put your project back online. The second possibility is that the aggressor decides it's not worth their time to take any further action, and they just walk away themselves. After two weeks or so, you can put your project back online.

The last possibility is that the aggressor goes and gets a tank (a lawsuit and lots of money) and points it right at you. If you don't have another tank (more money to fight the suit), you're done for. But if you do have another tank, you have a tank and a super cool sword, while the aggressor just has a tank and a lame pocket knife. If you put in the effort, which is often a lot, you can almost certainly win the fight and put your project back online.

Now, the Scratch Team handles DMCA takedowns for Scratch projects, not the users who create them. In the rare cases where companies are evil enough to file a takedown notice for a child's project, it's less money and effort for the Scratch Team to just comply and walk away. There are much more important things for them to spend those resources on, such as the development of Scratch 3.0.

In a perfect world, these situations wouldn't end the way the NAMCO one did, but unfortunately this is not a perfect world.