Yep, good news...for now. Gotta love how some of the biggest proponents of the new rules rant against people "fear-mongering" on behalf of the big online social media platforms, when they themselves represent the interests of the biggest entertainment and media conglomerates on the planet. Far as I'm concerned, it's all the little guys, including online business startup's, who really benefit from these laws not passing. People in the States will already have their hands full now trying to keep track of all the hundreds of different tax rates (not to mention just having a harder time competing), now that the Supreme Court has given the green light on online sales taxes....Looks like the law has been rejected https://www.theguardian.com/technol...e-billions-in-copyright-payouts-after-eu-vote
Oh, it gets even more fun. Texas has a tax free weekend that they DON'T charge sales taxes on certain items (and don't think it's the same calendar period each year)... so any automated process will have to be able to adapt to that also. Other states that have sales taxes may do the same thing. It will simply increase the prices (even more than what the sales tax does) of the product now.their hands full now trying to keep track of all the hundreds of different tax rates
Oh, it gets even more fun. Texas has a tax free weekend that they DON'T charge sales taxes on certain items (and don't think it's the same calendar period each year)... so any automated process will have to be able to adapt to that also. Other states that have sales taxes may do the same thing. It will simply increase the prices (even more than what the sales tax does) of the product now.
Some of the larger online retailers were voluntarily collecting sales tax from their customers even though they were not required to.Some states were already collecting sales taxes on online purchases before the opinion was made. At least that's the case every time I buy things on Amazon.
And some still aren't. This transaction was through Amazon and with a third party seller.... if you notice, Amazon collected no tax so I'm responsible for filing it this year myself.Some of the larger online retailers were voluntarily collecting sales tax from their customers even though they were not required to.
That's like burgling someons's house and saying "I'll give the money back if you can find me, and I won't expect to go to jail"I would have thought that with images, this law has changed nothing. It is already an infringement to upload and/or host copyright images (or text, audio, video etc) without permission.
That's true. But right now it is suffice to add a notice-and-takedown procedure so there is no need for pro-active image checking.
That's the only way how a forum can operate. How do you want to proactively check if an image is copyright protected while it is being uploaded to a forum? It's not possible to my knowledge.
You should get familiar with Youtube's Content ID system. Vimeo has something similar aswell, DailyMotion aswell. And these kind of stuff work on videos, so images should be no problem at all. Obviously, you would need a database provided by the license holders to compare your uploads against.
How do you want to proactively check if an image is copyright protected while it is being uploaded to a forum? It's not possible to my knowledge.
On the subject of GPDR and copyright, I've been demanded by a user to remove their account all their content, including forum posts. The claim is that anything they have submitted on the forum is an expression of his ideas which would fall under Copyright afaik. All the information I find is based on protecting the site owner from anyone posting copyright material on our site, but it's very difficult to find anything regarding simply forum posts and how that constitutes a claim of copyright on posting thoughts on a 3rd party content system.
You are granting us with a non-exclusive, permanent, irrevocable, unlimited license to use, publish, or re-publish your Content in connection with the Service. You retain copyright over the Content.
Unless you changed it, I don't think they have a case against you.
Since this person is in the US and I'm a US site, I'm not really required to delete their account as a claim of GPDR but I don't really have an issue with deleting accounts and the content being associated with an anonymous user, it's the removal of their posts in the threads causing a break in the conversation flow I have an issue with.
I haven't changed it and I reviewed that part of the T&C, I'm just not sure how much it would hold up legally since it states they retain copyright. I've felt I'm quite safe to retain the content and I believe I'll continue in that direction.The default Terms and Rules of any XF installation says:
Unless you changed it, I don't think they have a case against you.
I'm referring to the GPDR right to remove user personal identification requirements, not copyright claim. Does DMCA give US users the right to demand removal of all personal identification, including username etc, like the GPDR does?Not quite true. If you don't have such a clause, copyright is a law in the US anyway, irrespective of GDPR
I haven't changed it and I reviewed that part of the T&C, I'm just not sure how much it would hold up legally since it states they retain copyright. I've felt I'm quite safe to retain the content and I believe I'll continue in that direction.
I'm referring to the GPDR right to remove user personal identification requirements, not copyright claim. Does DMCA give US users the right to demand removal of all personal identification, including username etc, like the GPDR does?
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