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Commercial... memes?

• dx87 7y ago
  I've started to see a lot of ads that are based on memes, mainly on reddit.
• laszlokorte 7y ago
  In Hamburg for example public transit busses are covered in memes [0] [0]: https://i.redd.it/ygj1fa5130f11.jpg https://i.redd.it/ygj1fa5130f11.jpg
  • pmontra 7y ago
    It could be that the ad agencies are using the memes not to pay for the images. Maybe the photographers that used to work for them complained and got this law.
    • icebraining 7y ago
      I don't see why you'd need a new law to prevent the unlicensed use of a copyrighted work in an ad; I'm pretty sure that's been illegal for quite some time now, including in Germany.
• afandian 7y ago
  Yes. I've seen the Harold meme used in commercial advertising. The original was an unlicensed (I think) ShutterStock image. (Discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21481351 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21481351) Why should commercial companies be able to make money off copyrighted material? Or if you think they can, why not expliclty abolish image copyright?
• cyxxon 7y ago
  Well, commercial use of memes, like, say a company liek Reddit or Imgur that profites from the use of memes (let's not go into their revenue or business model in detail now). So in reality ALL memes are commercial (unless you host yourself, I would guess).
  • icebraining 7y ago
    Maybe this will help Mastodon and other FOSS social networks to become popular in Germany.