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Pirated Courses on Udemy
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's unreasonable? How? This isn't YouTube, they're selling video courses. As a customer, you would damn better expect that they have curated the content on their site.
Udemy has over 30,000 courses, how many videos and other course assets does that represent? What method are you suggesting they deploy to validate the person selling the course owns all the copyrights they need to sell it?
Scale is not relevant at all. Is it OK for Amazon to sell stolen goods?
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#64where is udemy? is there a small claims court there?
File for 100% of the money.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Make sure you file copyright for each video before making it available on your own website. Having a copyright in place before any theft allows you to go after (by threat or course) statutory damages for each theft of your work. I learned this a few years ago from our own IP lawyer when someone was reusing some of our material. We now file the $35(or whatever it is) fee before posting the material online.
File for copyright? how do you mean: Copyright is implicit, unlike patents, upon creation of a work.
>Registration is still required in the US for some benefits, such as awards of statutory damages. [1]
>You must register your copyright with the U.S. Copyright Office before you are legally permitted to bring a lawsuit to enforce it. [2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_registration#Require... [2] http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/copyright-registratio...
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Udemy has over 30,000 courses, how many videos and other course assets does that represent? What method are you suggesting they deploy to validate the person selling the course owns all the copyrights they need to sell it?
Scale is not relevant at all. Is it OK for Amazon to sell stolen goods?
Are you saying you dont think Amazon sells things that violate other peoples copyrights?
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#67I wonder how many people who wrote courses that are now being pirated on Udemy ever torrented music or movies illegally, used someone else's Netflix account, DRM stripped Kindle books etc. I don't agree with Udemy, but it's always crappier when it happens to you.
Let's play devil's advocate and say that you are right. All of these people have at some time downloaded a movie or used someone else's Netflix account. Your argument still wouldn't be valid. Udemy is making presumably 10s of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars off of stolen content. This is the difference between shoplifting a dvd and opening up blockbusters all across the world with movies you stole. The difference is night and day. Not just logically or morally, but legally.
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#68I wonder how many people who wrote courses that are now being pirated on Udemy ever torrented music or movies illegally, used someone else's Netflix account, DRM stripped Kindle books etc. I don't agree with Udemy, but it's always crappier when it happens to you.
Not strictly analogous. How many of those people torrented music or movies -and then sold them, or resold access to someone else's Netflix, etc.
Neither is correct. But Udemy isn't just pirating, but profiting.
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> but udemy got videos off of pluralsight, uploaded them to their own servers, and are then selling them off as udemy's own courses. You are confusing things here. A Udemy user took some content from Pluralsight and published the content on Udemy. Where Udemy is in the wrong is in not taking the content down and banning the teacher from their platform.
What would be intriguing is if Udemy is actually responsible, and just using ghost accounts...
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#70What is a good Udemy alternative?