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I use this plugin (also available for Chrome) to redirect to pictures of tea and kittens should I accidental click on a Daily Mail link. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/kitten-block/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/kitten-block/...
What does the law say about putting a license on use of things like this "Embedding this content into your site without written permission from the author will involve a £100000 fee for it's use. You agree by embedding this content that you abide by these terms." Is something like this enforceable?
No, it's not, because 1) the user never agreed to the license, 2) a license by definition cannot cover unlicensed uses. Unlicensed uses are dealt with by statute, not by a licence agreement, so it would be up to a court to decide how much to reward you.
Note that for 1) without a written agreement you can't specify additional license terms beyond the usual statutory rights. Licenses and contracts have very different requirements for what makes them valid, the bar is set much higher for licenses.
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Is something like this enforceable? We'd better hope the general principle isn't, because otherwise every search engine, social networking site, traffic aggregator and directory service on the web is about to spend the rest of its very short existence fighting off lawsuits.
I suppose, maybe if you don't have a licence on things it's fair game, but I know the Daily Mail has ripped off Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial Licenced works.
The complication with web sites is that there is inevitably some level of implied consent: if you put a site up and someone visits it normally, they are technically making various copies of your work along the way, without necessarily having any explicit permission from the rightsholder to do so. This is where lawyers argue technicalities about everything from hot-linking to uploading or downloading the latest Hollywood movie.
What does the law say about putting a license on use of things like this "Embedding this content into your site without written permission from the author will involve a £100000 fee for it's use. You agree by embedding this content that you abide by these terms." Is something like this enforceable?
I think the problem with this, like with most routes that involve a lawyer, is that this isn't about being enforceable or not, but whether you can actually pay in time and money to try to enforce it. That's why typically only companies try to enforce licenses. The author said that even writing the blog post was hard because he had not much time to spare. Imagine what it would cost if you sue and demand a newspaper li…
Someone would have to invest the time to create some structure to help the victims find each other but it should cost little to no money.
A lawyer might even find it lucrative to do this? It's like the advertisements I see asking if I've ever taken some drug or something if so I can join a class action law suit.
I use this plugin (also available for Chrome) to redirect to pictures of tea and kittens should I accidental click on a Daily Mail link. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/kitten-block/
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I think the problem with this, like with most routes that involve a lawyer, is that this isn't about being enforceable or not, but whether you can actually pay in time and money to try to enforce it. That's why typically only companies try to enforce licenses. The author said that even writing the blog post was hard because he had not much time to spare. Imagine what it would cost if you sue and demand a newspaper li…
What if you just start invoicing their AP department?
I can't help but think that it would make sense for Mr. Yau to either (a) Change the server setting to emit the X-Frame-Options: DENY header or (b) monetize views on his graphic. In general, you can't assume people won't deep-link your content, and that includes embedding. Taking steps to protect against or take advantage of traffic spikes is the responsibility of a content provider. This, of course, wouldn't protect…
It's basically his "poop" solution except properly done, and scales to all of his content instead of having to be a one-off.
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I think the problem with this, like with most routes that involve a lawyer, is that this isn't about being enforceable or not, but whether you can actually pay in time and money to try to enforce it. That's why typically only companies try to enforce licenses. The author said that even writing the blog post was hard because he had not much time to spare. Imagine what it would cost if you sue and demand a newspaper li…
I haven't thought much about this but I wonder if a possible way around the problem is for multiple victims to pull resources and combine their cases against a single offender. Someone would have to invest the time to create some structure to help the victims find each other but it should cost little to no money. A lawyer might even find it lucrative to do this? It's like the advertisements I see asking if I've ever…
Finding each other is cheap, structuring such a case isn't.
A few years ago the Daily Mail ran an article about a visualization I made. They obeyed my CC license, so I have no complaint as serious as Yau's. But the article was just full of errors, including spelling my name wrong in three different ways. I wrote the article author and pointed out all the errors and he responded "No copy editing! It's a tight budget." The Daily Mail truly doesn't give a shit. About quality, ab…
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I suppose, maybe if you don't have a licence on things it's fair game, but I know the Daily Mail has ripped off Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial Licenced works.
On the contrary: if you don't have a licence on things, the default assumption should be that the copyright holder has given no permission, just as when the author of the article here didn't respond to a question sent in the middle of the night, that was not a grant of permission to do whatever the person asking wanted. The complication with web sites is that there is inevitably some level of implied consent: if you…