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UFC fan videos yanked from social media as company clamps down on DMCA infringements

Reddit's mixed martial arts (MMA) community is up in arms over claims that Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is making DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) claims on dozens of fan videos featuring content of their favorite fighters.

According to Reddit user Bratt Mamley he posted a link to Facebook featuring a fan video he created of Anthony Pettis vs. Eddie Alvarez to his subreddit community on Thursday (Jan. 14, 2016). From there it slowly made its way to the top page of the 138,000-plus strong community of subscribers through "upvotes".

But Mamley soon received a notice that his entire video collection was taken down from Facebook due to a copyright claim made by UFC.