Notorious (1946) is missing a chunk of artwork metadata.
https://watch.plex.tv/movie/notorious missing poster\background:
My server:
There aren’t options to pick other artwork either (backgrounds look the same way):
Plex Docs → Your Media → Local Media Assets - Movies
This happens with multiple movies.
The rights owners issue a DMCA takedown request and Plex has to comply.
Pull artwork from an online source and add it to the movie folder.
I haven’t experienced a situation in the last several years where a DMCA removed ALL available artwork before. It was always just specific posters or backgrounds.
As admins, should we expect to have “no artwork for you, do it yourself” as a thing that can happen going forward because that wasn’t ever the case before.
I went and got my own artwork to fix it but I thought Plex’s switch to a licensed art provider was in part to avoid this situation?
The provider fixed some issues, but there is zero providers that have every cover. Its frequency is rare enough if you keep an eye out for it you should catch the few that have been taken down.
Individual posters and backgrounds taken down for certain artwork makes sense for DMCA violations and wasn’t uncommon. I’ve run into that before with Plex but it wouldn’t wipe out all art available.
When it would happen the movie poster would either automatically flip to one of the other posters (if I was using the default poster) or would show the screen capture and I’d go in and pick one of the other posters that were listed from TMDB or TVDB.
This situation with “no artwork at all” is a new one for me after more than 10 years of using Plex with thousands of titles. Refusing to load other options from TMDB or TVDB is something I haven’t seen before and it’s not how copyright works. There isn’t a “block all images even remotely related to this movie” DMCA function.
I say “not how copyright works” but I also realize Plex knows that as well and is probably taking an easy way out. Easier to just block it all than to have to spend time on it I suppose. Maybe that’s the new way to go and it’ll happen more now instead of just removing the specific artwork. That’ll mean manually curating artwork… something I haven’t ever had to do with Plex even for titles that had DMCA requests for artwork.
I’m just getting more and more disappointed as Plex decisions result in me having more things to manually manage on my server than I used to have to do (like the actor images now). Didn’t we pick up Plex so we wouldn’t have to manually manage it all with NFO and poster.jpg files?
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