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...eapecially if an album only had one song worth getting.
I've posted countless photographs of mine on Facebook, which bears a copyright.
Concerning? It should be terrifying!Its concerning that free speech might be stifled.
I suggest people start assembling flash-mobs (you get a whole bunch of people to assemble in a given area, protest, or do some predetermined task, then disperse really quick to get people's attention) -- there's little legal restriction, as I understand it, in the EU.And I worry finally exactly how this massive change will affect us. I cannot help thinking that it bodes bad things for small fry like us.
I don't know if keeping silent and not complaining is inherently a permission. Maybe I'm wrong, and maybe someone who knows more about these things can explain.
No, that's not exactly true. At least here in the U.S., where everything is governed by the Copyright Act, the only way to waive or assign a copyright is in a writing. Marcel, you're right, it's works of authorship that are protected in the Act. So long as they're reduced to a tangible medium of expression, and you authored them, copyright subsumes, and that's the end of that. They're infringed on all the time on the Internet, but only because they can be terribly expensive to enforce.By being silent, it is effectively, consenting to this.
Yup it's implemented starting 6th of June this year.So can someone update me, did the law pass?
Yup it's implemented starting 6th of June this year.
Wiki is pretty good for showing what rules are needed to post pictures and whether it is Public Domain or not
I saw that I posted the rules earlier in the thread, so see the quoted post.So the new rules are now clear. Basically it says that the web service is held responsible for any copyright material uploaded by it's users. The platform needs to install filters in order to prevent uploading of said material.
However, above rule counts if the platform meets the following criteria:
- the platform has a yearly turnover of a minimum of 10 milion euro
- has a minimum of 5 milion unique users from the Eu
- has existed for more than 3 years.
We only meet one of the above rules I think
However, even though we don't meet the criteria, we still need to apply to some rules.
We need to do "notice and take down". Which means that we are obliged to remove copyright material if it is pointed out to us.
So I guess we'll go on the way we did.
Whose statistics are those? Ours??