World is for news OUTSIDE the United States.
It exists specifically to give news from other countries room to grow and breathe.
In Politics, nothing about the manifesto is political. It’s not tied to any political policy or politician.
Fortunately our laws aren’t about what’s moral or not. You need religious police for that.
The correct process would have been to issue a takedown request, then go after the domain if nothing was done, they just jumped the gun.
Hence the “super shitty way to do it”. ;)
No, it isn’t.
https://copyright.psu.edu/copyright-basics/fair-use/
"In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include—
the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
the nature of the copyrighted work;
the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work."
So, me, making a fan page for FunkoPop versions of the Five Nights at Freddies characters and using their images? THAT’S fair use.
Me charging money for a fan game based on the same Funko versions of those characters is NOT fair use.
“Section 107 of the Copyright Act gives examples of purposes that are favored by fair use: “criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, [and] research.””
Well, if you care about an indie gaming site being shut down for copyright violations, yeah, you might want to actually care about copyright infringement.
What they were doing here though was supporting developers profiting off someone elses IP. It would be like, I dunno, I started an independent Superman movie and was fundraising off that. It’s a little different from piracy.
In the case of the Five Nights at Freddies game, the developer is infringing on not one but TWO properties.
It’s not fair use to use images and names you have not licensed.
See this asshat:
I mean, I don’t blame them for protecting their IP, they just picked a super shitty way to do it.
I don’t even think they would have needed an official cease and desist… just a friendly note of “Hey, none of this Funko material is licensed, please remove it.”
Thanks!
Called it, Gaza/West Bank #1, Lebanon #2, Golan #3. Israel’s greatest hits.
But we need you to revert to the original headline, not the editorialized version or we’ll have to remove it.
Current headline reads:
“Israel grabs land in Syria’s Golan Heights, warns villagers to stay home”
At first I was like “WTF does an indie games site have to do with Funko?” then I Googled it…
Looks like they hosted a BUNCH of infringing games, so Funko, instead of doing the righteous thing and sending them a takedown request, just nuked the whole domain…
At first I was like “WTF does an indie games site have to do with Funko?” then I Googled it…
Looks like they hosted a BUNCH of infringing games, so Funko, instead of doing the righteous thing and sending them a takedown request, just nuked the whole domain…
“YOU ARE HERE” map.
Duplicates posted 5 minutes apart, removing the one with lower engagement.
Unconfirmed reports that Assad’s plane has been shot down:
This is develping, so take it with a grain of salt.
Admins have been talking about it, it looks like it has something to do with banning/unbanning users. Sometimes a ban/unban doesn’t want to propagate to .ee and that causes a logjam somehow.
Smarter people than me are looking at it!
I know there was a problem where federation was lagging by a couple of days, but I thought it was fixed? I’ll hit up the Admins.
I wonder if he’s only talking about the recent conflict or if he goes back farther than that, because Israel has been pulling this shit in Gaza for DECADES now.
Not even 30 seconds, it’s as much time as it takes to type the new address and click “save”.
Our CEO made a big announcement about how we were going to move from a B2B (Business to Business) environment to a B2C (Business to Consumer) environment. B2C is the future, Internet of Things, yadda yadda.
So, since we have an open door policy, I popped him an email and asked him what the plan was to invest in our infrastructure because, as it stood then, B2C was out of reach and the clients we had attempting it were finding it wasn’t robust enough, citing my example client list and recent failures.
I got immediate heat. Nobody had told him our infrastructure couldn’t do it. “What are your sources? How do you know?” - Sources cited. CEO went to his yes men: “This guy knows what he’s talking about and seems really sure of what he’s saying…”
Oh.
10 years later, we’re on our 3rd CEO, our infrastructure still isn’t updated, and B2C still hasn’t happened.
Unacceptable safety risk in trans kids feeling comfortable with who they are as human beings.