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14 Comments on The Oatmeal Raised over $100,000 for charity
I have read this three times now, but all I can say about it is, "Huh?'
Lawyers are greedy and will jump at anything to make a buck...
Leslie - OK
Edward - He was the Sex.com lawyer. I don't remember what that was about.
Cue the Village People and...
D M C A!
Where are DMCA instructions on AR? I was looking... for all the concern over Copyright about AR (mostly by AR haters) and within AR about Pinterest... (or something else.) They (DMCA instructions) used to be on the Flag???
"AR Haters?"
Why would anyone bother to hate AR?
I just popped a handful of Pinterest image thieves and a couple for a second time, with images stolen from my postings on AR without my permission.
I sure wish AR would give me an "Opt Out" from pinning, like Flickr does.
"Why would anyone bother to hate AR?"
because they can? Because they want the real estate agent to go with a free WordPress.org blog but then realize they really need to pay $4000 to a blog designer to make it pretty... or manageable. Because there is copyright infringement here (and almost everywhere) but it is a handy reason to be a hater.
I asked someone about a week ago, if I could pin her content. She said no.
"I asked someone about a week ago, if I could pin her content."
That should have been on the evening news. You are the first.
:- )
What do you think of Realtor.com allowing photos to be pinned? They have the "Pin it" button. I just saw an agent Pin a listing. Maybe it is not her listing ... I was wondering why you'd pin the photo from Realtor.com rather than your own site.
It is her listing.
I assume it links directly to the listing....
Maureen,
I think we are seeing a concious all out assault on individual intellectual property rights. Easily orchestrated because most people just truly do not care or understand. Or care to understand.
If internet site owners and service providers are able to destroy those property rights, it will free up all individual content to be used without concern for the source.
Get a groundswell of a billion people behind it because they have been offered a cute and popular interface, and it becomes a piece of cake to steal all rights.
That's why this interests me so much. Matthew Inman (The Oatmeal ) is 20 something. The bottom of his site says "All artwork and content on this site is Copyright © 2012 Matthew Inman. Please don't steal." I think the story with FunnyJunk is he did DMCAs a number of times and then stopped.
Instead of continuing to do DMCAs he did an editorial about FunnyJunk. He's got the power.
The Oatmeal has buttons to share on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ You can share via email but I don't see no FunnyJunk.com share button....
On Richard's post "Will Pinterest go the way of Napster? If it was up to me, the answer would be “YES!” I wrote a long, long comment. #60 that included the paragraph:
"I think Pinterest could go the way of Napster, but then again there are critics of ActiveRain that have said for years that all the "repurposed" content here (images used without permission, blog posts copied and pasted from other publications and passed off as original content of the member) would make ActiveRain fail. There has been pressure to quit AR because of other members stealing content (for points?) and ActiveRain's inablity to police itself and it's members."
At the very end I wrote: "Or perhaps copyright law will evolve and change because of Pinterest? "
Someone leaving a comment a couple of months later wrote "I am with Maureen hoping that copyright law changes."
I commented on Richard's post again saying "Huh? I had to read what I wrote, I don't think that I have ever hoped copyright law would change. I believe it may change. I wrote "Or perhaps copyright law will evolve and change because of Pinterest? " I am fond of the status quo. "
I really, really hate sites like FunnyJunk because they look so schlocky. Content "found" by members and presented w/out permission? As their own? w/ ads plastered on it? So FunnyJunk can make a buck?
There were Flame Wars in 2011 over The Oatmeal not allowing his content to be used on FunnyJunk.com. While they are respectful a lot of the comments on Richard's post saying "but I love Pinterest, and your content is online so..." are a version of the same for me. Finding something and clicking a button creates nothing. Curation is not the same thing as creation. Cramming stolen content onto a site plastered with ads is one thing if it is your content.
"While they are respectful a lot of the comments on Richard's post saying "but I love Pinterest, and your content is online so..." are a version of the same for me. Finding something and clicking a button creates nothing. Curation is not the same thing as creation. Cramming stolen content onto a site plastered with ads is one thing if it is your content. "
Theft is the will of the people, currently. It is hard to put the genie back in the bottle. Pinterest got back to me this evening claiming that my photos have been removed. No such luck with GOOG/blogspot. And now I have a local agent using my photo of the lake and sailboats on MLS and Craigslist.
Theft is the will of the people, and Pinterest, et al, are enabling and supporting that will.
And, the charities are being sued!
http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/17/can-i-sue-you-people-troll-lawyer-sues-the-charities-the-oatmeal-supports/
It is a weird world out there......
Freak show!