Some great memes are going to come out of this
Draft of German copyright reform proposes memes should only be up to 128 pixels
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Re: Draft of German copyright reform proposes memes should only be up to 128 pixels
#12This is only for commercial usage, private and non commercial is explicitly exempted.
Even an ad-banner put on your page by a free hosing service makes it technically commercial in Germany.
Re: Draft of German copyright reform proposes memes should only be up to 128 pixels
#13What a meme.
Maybe they can just cut up the meme in chunks of 128x128 and display that instead. Its not a full image but a lot of tiny ones
Re: Draft of German copyright reform proposes memes should only be up to 128 pixels
#14If it's not clear (the article does say "if not[,] you will need to get a license from the creator"), it's because most memes and GIFs take a copyrighted image/clip before adding a caption to it. E.g. in the article there is an image from the copyrighted work "Dawson's Creek".
> E.g. in the article there is an image from the copyrighted work "Dawson's Creek". The image doesn't supersede Dawson's Creek. My understanding is that this template is lampooning overwrought acting on the show. Isn't this covered under transformational fair use in the United States?
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#17I wonder if this stupid compliance trick works: encode the image in base64 (or whatever, maybe something more dense), output that as plain text in the page, tell users they need to install a browser extension that recognizes these parts, decodes them and puts the image in place of the text.
Just for kicks the browser extension is open source and is maintained by anonymous..
Re: Draft of German copyright reform proposes memes should only be up to 128 pixels
#18I wonder if this stupid compliance trick works: encode the image in base64 (or whatever, maybe something more dense), output that as plain text in the page, tell users they need to install a browser extension that recognizes these parts, decodes them and puts the image in place of the text. Just for kicks the browser extension is open source and is maintained by anonymous..
I mean, if you're up for working around the law rather than obeying it, assembling 128x128 tiles into a bigger image by tacking them together in HTML is far easier.
Re: Draft of German copyright reform proposes memes should only be up to 128 pixels
#19This is only for commercial usage, private and non commercial is explicitly exempted.
Commercial... memes?
In Hamburg for example public transit busses are covered in memes [0]
Re: Draft of German copyright reform proposes memes should only be up to 128 pixels
#20This is only for commercial usage, private and non commercial is explicitly exempted.
Commercial... memes?
Yes. I've seen the Harold meme used in commercial advertising. The original was an unlicensed (I think) ShutterStock image.
(Discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21481351)
Why should commercial companies be able to make money off copyrighted material? Or if you think they can, why not expliclty abolish image copyright?