Mr Lucky
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Funny that the the article “The end of all That’s good and pure about the internet” seems to condone copyright theft.
If you thought GDPR is a joke, joke's on you
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Funny that the the article “The end of all That’s good and pure about the internet” seems to condone copyright theft.
jmurrayhead
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I also did not get that vibe from the article.
It really isn't, there is always the option to just pay license fees and I'd be more than happy to actually see this come true in big scale - imagine that we could get rid of all the annoying tracking, malvertising and advertising (which slows things down a lot and is a privacy nightmare) and just pay for content & services.
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MySiteGuy
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Read it, don't see where? Maybe I missed it, can you point out which part?
usAdultAds
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EU wants to control the internet through bogus laws and taxation.
Google wants to control search results.
The US wants to tax online stores, and The court agrees...
If you are a small online business in EU/US...
Then your future does not look very good.
Mr Lucky
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Well for a start, unless I'm misintepreting the article refers to remixing copyright works as fair use.
MySiteGuy
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Remix, under copyright law, has been allowed depending on the case. For example, parody has always been considered fair use. This is why Weird Al can do versions of other people's songs. He said he has always asked the artist as a courtesy because he wants artists to be pleased he's doing a remake, but its never been required and he doesn't have to get any contract to do it.
It really depends on how its remixed, and to what extent. There should be no blanket regulation that you can't do it without a license because it's never been this way in the history of copyright.
It really depends on how its remixed, and to what extent. There should be no blanket regulation that you can't do it without a license because it's never been this way in the history of copyright.
Mr Lucky
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parody is different to remixing. A parody is a parody.
I have had remixes of my works done, but always under licence with my publisher's permission. There is no automatic right to do a remix and claim "fair use" as implied in that article. I believe that (in professional circles) more often than not fair use tends to be a defence rather than an assumed right to copy. Obviously when people do remixes that are of a less high profile then they often go under the radar of rights holders and so people think they can do it purely because nobody of any note heard their track to know it was an infringement.
A true story:
I had a manger who was alos mamnaging a very famous band with a string of top ten hits. A remixer asked him for permission to do a remix based on several samples of a track.
He told them yes, he would grant the remixer permission, who then asked what percentage the original artist would want to retain.
"100%" was his answer.
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Robust
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Honestly, you should be retaining the same data protection policies worldwide, regardless of user location. The GDPR includes some good principles and rights that people regardless of location should have. Even if you're not required by law to give them to a certain user, you really should.
So if a user asks for their data deleted, and you have no real reason to keep it you should probably remove it.
They are not always, but they can be remixes.
There is. That's actually the definition of fair use. Countries without fair use might have similar regulations. See YT's guidelines and examples - the first one is a remix: https://www.youtube.com/intl/en/yt/about/copyright/fair-use/
Paying fees is not always an option - money, time, contacts, etc. You should know how long it took for YT and GEMA (over 7 years) to find a solution.
No clue what that has to do with ads and co. In fact, when people start leaving YT because they are forced to, ads will increase to compensate the losses.
Mr Lucky
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It looks like you haven't actually read that, it totally backs up what I've said. Although it cites certain legal arguments, it is just their policy and reinforces that there are special circumstances involved. Again, There is no automatic right to do a remix based on fair use. It is mostly something granted by a rights owner or a judge, and even then has very special parameters that must comply.
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Often Youtube actually has to ask rights holders to allow fair use. Again, there is no right granted automatically - it usually is a defence not a right. Even then it usually needs something that is newswoirthy or of public interest and nothing to do with your typical remix.
No. It's not YT's policy, it's a principle of law. Their guidelines are 1:1 based on that principle. Fair use grants you the right to freely remix anything. It's just in the hand of a judge to determine if you are actually fulfilling those special circumstances to actually be able to make use of fair use.
Depending on what "public interest" means for you - nope. As long as the remix adds an actual value ("transformative use") it's totally fine -> https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overvi..._factor_the_purpose_and_character_of_your_use
Mr Lucky
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You don't need fair use to grant you the right to remix anything. You can remix whatever you want in your bedroom...
I think we are talking about different things here so I'm not going to keep going back and forward on a pointless discussion.
Dragapult
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You just described how all "news" networks (CNN, MSNBC, Fox) operate.
KensonPlays
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I’m unsure about my community.
I run a stream, but I don’t have ads, or accept tips directly on site, only on my stream. Not sure if that effects it, but I’d like to know.
How likely would this effect me if I only have a couple viewers from Europe, and most are in USA/Canada? I would say 95% or higher are in the USA.
I run a stream, but I don’t have ads, or accept tips directly on site, only on my stream. Not sure if that effects it, but I’d like to know.
How likely would this effect me if I only have a couple viewers from Europe, and most are in USA/Canada? I would say 95% or higher are in the USA.
jmurrayhead
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Sounds like KensonPlays has a community built around a streaming community (i.e., Twitch or Youtube).
KensonPlays
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Yes, and I don't accept tips or have ads directly on the site, just through streamlabs.
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