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I guess Genius doesn't care about the rampant copyright violation involved with the "web annotator"? Using genius.it/ creates derived works, and it does so almo
by gergles 11y ago
I guess Genius doesn't care about the rampant copyright violation involved with the "web annotator"? Using genius.it/ creates derived works, and it does so almost certainly without approval of the copyright owner.
I guess they will argue fair use, but hostile 'annotations' definitely reduce the value of the work, they reuse the entire work, and they use the work for commercial gain. I wouldn't consider this a slam dunk.
I actually really dislike this concept of "we're going to wrap your website and mark it up with other stuff to make it look like you're hosting this content here". Sure, people should be able to talk wherever they want, but keep that in a popup, or at worst a frame - don't highlight text to suggest that the author has done that, and don't load your own elements in their page.
- chatmasta 11y agoThanks for the interesting, non-inflammatory comment. You raise a good point. The fact that they proxy the content on their servers definitely puts them in a more vulnerable position than if this were, for example, a strictly client-side chrome extension that fetched annotation metadata and re-rendered the page accordingly. In the purely client-side case, the full article would not pass through their servers, only bits and pieces of it. It would be easier to argue fair-use if you're only storing parts of the articles, and comments/highlights, on a remote server, instead of proxying the entire content. (What if the article is behind a paywall, for example? Then genius.it effectively becomes a circumvention proxy.)