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It's not like many of the original artists want a payout. They just want attribution.

• illuminate 13y ago
  These things usually have passed around the internet several times before it gets to the meme aggregators, I wish there was a better solution than watermarking. Tineye/GIS would theoretically work, but it'd find every instance where the meme was passed around, not its origin! Do you have a suggesting for finding each "owner"? Such requirements would shut down all these sites (not that we'd have a huge loss by doing so, but I'd like to think that a social/technological solution would be possible.)
• scotty79 13y ago
  The problem is that because you can be rightfully extorted by original author you have little incentive to keep and acknowledge attribution. It's better to pretend that given image came from the cloud. That's how copyright enforcers again make it worse for all creative people.