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Agreed; also, turn it around and it becomes a user-generated-content tool as well. As in anything that goes viral, the brand owner can take ownership of and exp
by 6stringmerc 9y ago
Agreed; also, turn it around and it becomes a user-generated-content tool as well. As in anything that goes viral, the brand owner can take ownership of and exploit as an unauthorized derivative work, free of any user recourse.
Well, except Fair Use, but I'd hope that's part of their model to consider, because it's important I think.
- divenorth 9y agoBut nobody really knows what fair use means. We have a general idea but that's it.
- 6stringmerc 9y agoNo, we do know what Fair Use is it's just that people like to claim it as an excuse when it's not valid. CASE IN POINT: Mike Masnick. That sonofabitch is the most ignorant loud-mouth "I ain't never made nothing creative so everything is Fair Use" sinkhole asshole since Nick Denton. Fair Use is alive and well. Idiots who try to wear it as a defense cloak get what's coming to them. I know the right lawyers to dail up if I ever need to, but I haven't needed to, because I'm not Masnick.