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When do we get to the point where people start acknowledging how insane the entire concept of copyright is.
How it’s implemented in current law is though. And it’s getting worse. That’s the problem, not copyright itself.
The only way to fix this is to let you sue for damages + lawyer fees. As it is right now, you can earn lots of money by DMCA:ing popular creators, monetize on their content for a while (or a long time if they don't have a friend at Google who can escalate the issue).
Bringing a lawsuit is not an option for the vast majority of people, but it seems this is the first option many people suggest. Situations like this are more of a problem with our laws that largely protect the interests of large corporations over individuals and really need to be changed.
When do we get to the point where people start acknowledging how insane the entire concept of copyright is.
The copyright concept is fine. Creators should enjoy the ownership of the products of their labor. The problem is with the youtube's implementation. There are no negative effects for the large players who falsely claim copyright.
When do we get to the point where people start acknowledging how insane the entire concept of copyright is.
How is this not a form of pirating? Pirating is the reason we have the stupid DMCA to begin with and now we have this happening!
Pirates don't really steal data, they just copy. But this is actually a kind of theft. Most pirates would consider that immoral, I'd guess.
Why don't you copyright them before that company does it?
In fairness, the franchise or manager (not McDonalds) was at fault there. They had the coffee machine set higher than standard McDonalds temperature, and had they been repeatedly cited by inspectors because it was a safety violation. The burn led to hospitalization.
3rd degree burns over 6% of her body with lesser burns over 16% of her body. (Her labia were fused together.) And required extensive skin grafts to treat. While in the hospital she lost 20% of her body weight and was left partially disabled for 2 years following the incident and retain not-insignificant scarring.
>They had the coffee machine set higher than standard McDonald's temperature
It was within normal operating parameters as per the McDonald's manual. There had been 700 prior instances of warning about issues from hot coffee.
(And while I'm at it)
She was not driving, she was a passenger in a parked car when the incident occurred. She originally only sued for medical costs; McDonald's offered $800. The jury awarded $200,000 and the judge reduced that to $160,000. $2.7 million was awarded by the jury in punitive damages and reduced to $480,000 by the judge, however, there was later a settlement for an unknown amount after McDonald's appealed.
Why does everyone remember different? Because McDonald's spent more than a few million dollars on a PR campaign against her, after which she received lifelong massive amounts of hate mail and death threats and was reduced to gags on everything from Seinfeld to Jay Leno to Futurama.
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The problem here has nothing to do with the DMCA. The problem is that Google has implemented its own system that has little to do with the DMCA. If it were handled the DMCA way, here is how it would go. 1. Someone complains to the hosting service alleging that you are violating their copyright. 2. The hosting provider takes down the material and notifies you. If you do not want to dispute this, that is the end of it.…
If the claimant takes you to court and loses, there is no penalty, I assume? There's punitive damages in the US - any chance that would be applied to such a case?
When do we get to the point where people start acknowledging how insane the entire concept of copyright is.
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FWIW, the author of the tweet, Mumbo Jumbo is a high-profile Minecraft videos content creator on YouTube (3M subscribers) and he's doing this as his full-time job. By your description, I would say he's in the top personalities group. What's happening here is basically Warner Chappell is claiming a revenue sharing of his video with no recourse. Edit: he posted a new video elaborating more about this issue.[1] [1]: htt…
MatPat of Game Theory & Film Theory says that his YouTube rep explained the company has a categorization internally for video game accounts, which means they can never be part of the VIP category.