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RE: Plagiarist Bitches Like This Need to be Dealt With!
Using solely someone elses pictures to make money, not even in a part of an article, is definitely not "fair use". And you as a copywriter should know that.
Steemit is very complex in that regard, because you don't actually make "money". You mine blocks. It's not quite clear yet. You have to file a complaint under DMCA, so the only parties allowed for griveance are the people portrayed in the photos. And Tumblr itself.
While the user hasn't done any transformative work or what not, he/she does curate the photos. Which, unless someone files a complaint, he/she is allowed to do that according to Steemit.
(Don't you think I like or agree with that. It is what it is.)
And where would those people file the complaint to when there is no real authority on the platform? They would first have to join, either pay or wait two weeks, and then jump through hoops of getting a sense of the platform and complaining to steemcleaners etc.
Preaching to the choir Eve. It's a fundamental problem of the platform. Decentralized means no legitimate authority and conditions of wild west.https://github.com/steemit/steem/pull/561 Here they talked about coding in a DMCA plug-in, but it creates a disaster with the nodes and what not.
The girls can alwas file a complaint @ steemit support, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
Yes the wonderful world where everyone has an equal say and we as a community can decide together about every little or big thing. It's such bullshit and majority of the people are dumb fucks and should not be given ANY power what so ever.
Gosh I would love to be a dictator.