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Yeah, so my thought when I bought it was to offer to sell it back to Disney for $25k or something. I could most likely get a pro-bono defense while Disney would pay a lot more than that in a lawsuit which I would most likely win. Most likely. I still haven't acted on it yet.
I could fly to Moscow and defeat the Russia Mafia in unarmed combat. Or I could blackmail Disney in a lawsuit. The Russian Mafia think my chances better beating them than Disney.
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How is that a copyright violation, though? The tweets are publicly available on the internet, and presumably the maker space is just showing the Twitter website like anyone could themselves…
Lots of songs are available on public radio broadcasts, that doesn't mean I have the right to remix them and play them in my concert hall.
I've seen maker-spaces where a billboard was set up that automatically displayed a rolling marquee of tweets that had been sent with #TheMakerSpacesHashtag in the shop. ... can't help but wonder if the space put themselves at risk for being sued over a copyright violation if someone didn't like their tweet on that billboard.
How is that a copyright violation, though? The tweets are publicly available on the internet, and presumably the maker space is just showing the Twitter website like anyone could themselves…
Practically speaking it's almost certainly not a copyright violation. If you see a sign "Use #HashTag to see your Tweet on the jumbotron" and then proceed to tweet at it, you've agreed to the licensing terms (that your tweet will be displayed).
The only case where this gets hairy is if you didn't know that using #Hashtag resulted in it being displayed on the jumbotron and didn't want that. If MakerSpace displayed every tweet with #DoNotDisplay or something like that, then they clearly don't have license and have violated copyright law.
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Lots of songs are available on public radio broadcasts, that doesn't mean I have the right to remix them and play them in my concert hall.
But surely other people can listen in when you play the radio?
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This reminds me of a book called "numerical recipes in C", full of algorithms that were very useful except you couldn't really use them because the authors protected their use with a very restrictive license.
You could use the algorithms, just not their implementation of the algorithms. If you rewrote it from scratch, following their text (not their source code), you were fully allowed to use it.
This isn’t unique to Disney. Delta Airline has been pushing #SkyMilesLife and other assorted hashtags for a while and they’ve had fine print that says they get a license to use the content with those hashtags. It was even on the signs hanging in the jet bridges back when people used to get on things called airplanes and travel to far off lands. Now it lives on through a website. > By tagging photos using #SkyMilesLif…
Can any lawyers chime in here? How would that actually hold up in a copyright lawsuit brought against them?
They're too busy, on the clock