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Last I checked, ignorance wasn't usually a defense but I'm not a lawyer. I just know not to pretend the Keurig I bought off the back of a truck was a good deal
by qppo 6y ago
Last I checked, ignorance wasn't usually a defense but I'm not a lawyer. I just know not to pretend the Keurig I bought off the back of a truck was a good deal for everyone involved.
But physical analogies to IP fall apart quickly so I'm not going to encourage people to read into that too deeply
- jimbo999 6y agoThe "buried" lede here is that they think Ben Cross is a giant asshat blowhard.
- tomcam 6y agoHe’s Gross
- jdm2212 6y agoSo there's two different concepts. One is original creative output, which is copyrightable. The other is information, which is not copyrightable. If you find something verbatim identical in a bunch of different places, you've got a strong case that it's just information, because if it were original creative output it wouldn't show up identically in multiple places. If it turns out everyone was plagiarizing a single source, but you were unaware and took down the offending content when asked, you won't have much in the way of legal liability.