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RE: The benefits of getting permission for images on Steemit
good post, ideally everybody should do that. I am too lazy, so I just give credit ^_^
good post, ideally everybody should do that. I am too lazy, so I just give credit ^_^
Yeah I mean, realistically nobody will do much, much of it being a grey area anyway, but with tens of thousands of users breaking any slight law, all it takes is one lawyer and bam.
I'm not sure it really takes one lawyer actually as so many of the users on here come from so many different jurisdictions. On top of this, the blockchain is distributed and immutable, but the images themselves are not stored on the blockchain. This means that a DCMA notice might make steemit remove specific ones from their servers (if the servers and company are under US jurisdiction which I think they are). But I'm not sure more than that could really be done.
It's not so much a gray area in my opinion, it's just something really hard to litigate and in most of the cases, litigation might even be impossible as the user might be located under a jurisdiction that wouldn't recognize the supposed right-holder as such. On top of this, there are a good deal of accounts that are essentially anonymous which makes it next to impossible to litigate against.
There are literally tons of websites full of copyright-infringing images but not of them have been hit with that and all of them are making money off of those images. That is especially true for social media websites like Facebook and Twitter where anybody can share and upload whatever image they want and the platforms themselves make very little effort to police anything despite the fact that they are the ones charging for ads displayed adjacent to this content.
Of course, morally speaking, I wholeheartedly agree that our usage of images should not be infringing on anybody's rights, I'm just saying that litigation is not what's going to curb the practice. What I think is more likely to make a difference are community efforts to fight against spammers and positive personal example like the one you're setting here.
Yeah you're right, though I wasn't really thinking on an individual level. That being said there was a very notable steemian a month or so ago with a reputation of about 72 who was taken down by a lawyer for basically stealing their articles and translating them on here and making thousands for it.
I was more thinking on a ned level though. Surely a site allowing earning from theft of content can be taken down in the form of, say, piratebay, then I don't see why not steemit?
What? Really? I think this disproves my point. I hadn't heard about that. Do you know who was the steemian in question and more details about the story?
A single site could be taken down, but the steem blockchain is supposedly much more resultant than that and is theoretically not dependant on a single website. That being said, most if the images we see are hosted on steemit's image servers that have nothing to do with the blockchain and can indeed be taken down. Additionally, steemit having to deal with litigation or even just serious treats of litigation might be enough to send the price of steem plumitting. If steemit is taken down, there would be some (possibly many) users who are never going to come back to the steem blockchain.
I'm now convinced that my initial response was not 100% reasonable...
Probably a combination of both really. The point is we shouldn't contribute to the demise if we can help it! The user, well I'm not sure I'm supposed to say even if I remembered. Begins with R, as far as I recall lol... stupid memory
Hm, I have to research this. This is certainly a notable incident in STEEM history and it might be setting an important precedent. I'm really curious about what exactly unfolded.
Thank you for this explanation. 😀I also always felt like it would be more of a hassle, if not impossible, for someone to actually litigate something like this.
But from a moral standpoint, I definitely prefer the ability to say, "I'm always good. I follow all rules I'm aware of and never steal or lie." 😎
I'm still gonna pretend like there's a possibility of legal action when I tell people why not to steal. Cause, if they have to ask- morals aren't gonna help anyway...😏
There are a few disclaimers that I should have mentioned in my original comment. First if all, I'm by no means an expert, so my opinion should be taken with way more than a grain of salt. Additionally, please notice that I opined that litigation was unlikely, not impossible.
Oh, I read pretty well. 😉 I got all of that from reading it before. I work with lawyers. Nothings impossible.
Improbable, maybe. 🙃