Got a link to this?
If I can't post funny pictures for the first time ever, my posts per day is going to decrease dramatically, and that can not happen.
google went to court and successfully defended that a hosting site/message board could not be held liable for what members posted.
Got a link to this?
Wikipedia lead paragraph said:Viacock International, Inc. v. YouTube, Inc., No. 07 Civ. 2103, is a U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York case in which Viacock sued YouTube, a video-sharing site owned by Google, alleging that YouTube had engaged in "brazen" and "massive" copyright infringement by allowing users to upload and view hundreds of thousands of videos owned by Viacock without permission. A motion for summary judgement seeking dismissal was filed by Google and was granted in 2010 on the grounds that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's "safe harbor" provisions shielded Google from Viacock’s copyright infringement claims. However, on appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, it was overturned in part in 2012, and a trial in the case is pending.
I'm thinking about putting a ton of my own copyrighted images on the internet and then just sue people till I can retire.
insert "all your pics are belong to 3TrueFans".jpeg
Talk about grey areas.
google went to court and successfully defended that a hosting site/message board could not be held liable for what members posted.
Is the copyright symbol copyrighted?
Getty images is a fairly well-known copyright troll, that tries to extort money from people hoping they will just give in to their tactics.
But really we really need serious reform of all of our intellectual property laws, from copyright (it shouldnt be the perpetual license it is today, for one, and it needs to adapt to the internet) to patents (which have gone completely idiotic in the tech world).
Getty images is a fairly well-known copyright troll, that tries to extort money from people hoping they will just give in to their tactics.
But really we really need serious reform of all of our intellectual property laws, from copyright (it shouldnt be the perpetual license it is today, for one, and it needs to adapt to the internet) to patents (which have gone completely idiotic in the tech world).
Don't Listen to Getty. Since 2007 or 2008 or so they have been suing people like crazy for copyright infringement. YOU THE SITE are not responsible for the content as long as they formally request and you take it down in a timely manner. Other than that they can go shove it. I was sued by them because someone linked a picture on a comment on one of my websites and I told them to shove it and nothing came out of it.
How does that even work? People post pictures all the time, how is anyone supposed to know if it's a copyrighted picture that can't be used?