@cferdinandi
"buy up or encourage the dissemination of IP, and then go fishing for folks they can scare into paying them" - Yep, that's totally what I thought as well.
I'm not a lawyer either, but I've read a lot about copyright cases, and I would've thought what you did came under "fair use". Making comments about news items is exactly the kind of scenario that Fair Use was intended for.
@SmartmanApps @cferdinandi Fair use is a concept in US copyright law, and not all the world is the US. The poster in this case indicated they're in the UK, where the parallel concept is "fair dealing", which is significantly narrower.
@cjwatson @cferdinandi
I'm not in the U.S., but most of the court cases are (because most of them involve American AI companies), but we have similar concept here (if not same name). Basically reviewers have to be able to review movies, which includes showing clips from the movies, without getting sued for copyright infringement, write product reviews, etc.
@SmartmanApps @cferdinandi English law, unfortunately, doesn’t have a concept of Fair Use like the US does.
@eatyourgreens @SmartmanApps a few years back. I read a story from someone who had used a photo that was shared through a free photo sharing site like Pexels, and then after it had had been used in a bunch of places, was taken down. The copyright holder, then suit a bunch of people claiming they had violated their IP.
That’s obviously not exactly what happened here, but is the kind of thing I was referring to.
@eatyourgreens @SmartmanApps @cferdinandi we have "fair dealing", which includes
"Fair dealing for criticism, review or quotation is allowed for any type of copyright work."
@stevefenton @SmartmanApps @cferdinandi unfortunately, “Fair dealing with a work for the purpose of reporting current events is allowed for any type of copyright work other than a photograph.”
@eatyourgreens @SmartmanApps @cferdinandi you're absolutely right! It's literally the next half of the sentence 🤦♂️