The Oatmeal Fights Legal Threat, Raises $20,000 in an Hour • Hacker News Board

Re: The Oatmeal Fights Legal Threat, Raises $20,000 in an Hour

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Post by batista » Tue, Jun 12, 2012, 6:12 PM UTC

tylerritchie wrote: post #65

ktizo wrote: post #56

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Funnyjunk appears to be a comedy site with no sense of humour. Next thing you know someone might start a rolling TV news channel with no knowledge of current affairs, named after some kind of wild dog, and then where would we be? Although, to be fair, that could never happen, as nobody would be stupid enough to watch it.

To be pedantic, it is not named for a wild dog. Wild dogs would be of the Canis genus, specifically C. lupus .

I got the impression he meant CNN? Pronouncing CNN as C(a)n(i)n(e)?

Re: The Oatmeal Fights Legal Threat, Raises $20,000 in an Hour

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Post by chris_wot » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 6:32 AM UTC

chris_wot wrote: post #96

makomk wrote: post #93

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His post was very clevery written to lead the reader to believe that Funnyjunk was stealing the images and that their statements that the users were uploading the images in question were a smokescreen. Could he defend this claim in court?

Sure. FunnyJunk, from what I can tell, has no designated agent to respond to DMCA takedown requests. Thus it cannot satisfy safe harbour provisions. I would suggest that FunnyJunk get themselves some competent legal counsel, because right now it doesn't satisfy DMCA 512. According to 17 USC § 512(c)(2), safe harbor protections "apply to a service provider only if the service provider has designated an agent to receiv…

Yup, as I thought. No registered designated agent. See here: http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/list/f_agents.html

Re: The Oatmeal Fights Legal Threat, Raises $20,000 in an Hour

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Post by Jimmie » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 7:21 AM UTC

a_bonobo wrote: post #71

Jimmie wrote: post #68

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I'm curious about this too. Use something like Tineye and check new Funnyjunk submissions against The Oatmeals image archive. Aside from the hardware it's a tiny amount of work for 1 human to monitor the results.

...until the company starts to monitor sites like Reddit and Imgur and suddenly, all the re-hosted stuff that lands on Reddit on a daily basis leads to the "good" Imgur being sued by the machine that formerly was used to combat the "evil" Funnyjunk.

Sued? No they'd be served with DCMA takedown notices. Which is perfectly fine in my book.

If the content creators don't want their content on Imgur then they should be able to take it down.

Nothing is preventing people from linking directly to the content creators site, redditors are just apathetic and would rather just click through imgur links.