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You got the copyright holders' permission to use those gifs, I take it?

• bpierre 13y ago
  I’m genuinely interested: do you have any example of a GIF/LOL website which owns the rights on the published content?
  • cinitriqs 13y ago
    Lol, touché! and how about google? does google have permission to show gifs jpegs/whatever video/.. online when people do a search on any term in particular? Guess there are loopholes for big companies only ;) You either have no money to pay for a lawyer and go bust or you buy all the lawyers so that no-one will be left to sue you... sort of kind of... doesn't make sense but you catch my drift right? :D
  • hrnnnnnn 13y ago
    No. I just think it's unethical to make money from someone else's work without compensating them. "But everyone else is doing it" is the kind of reasoning small children use.
    • bpierre 13y ago
      That was not my reasoning, I thought you had some examples in mind. I think the only solution to respect the copyright for this kind of content (amateur content with no identified author) would be to stop publishing it: you can’t sue Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter etc. Just to be sure: are we talking about the original authors, or the websites who add their watermarks on it?