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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.
The tweet says “by sharing your message with us using #MayThe4th”. I wonder if they expect both the hashtag AND a mention of @disneyplus. Still weird though.
I don't see this holding up - especially because it's ripe for abuse. What's to stop me from making a TOS for my own hashtag?
For it not to be held up, someone has to take Disney to court and win. Good luck with that. It's the whole single-digit millionaires don't have effective access to legal system , turned up to 11. I can only see a double-digit billionaire having the resources to fight this to the end.
I don't see this holding up - especially because it's ripe for abuse. What's to stop me from making a TOS for my own hashtag?
For it not to be held up, someone has to take Disney to court and win. Good luck with that. It's the whole single-digit millionaires don't have effective access to legal system , turned up to 11. I can only see a double-digit billionaire having the resources to fight this to the end.
- everyone has to silently acquiesce to this,
- Disney has to actually file a court case against everyone who violates their "terms" and win them all.
I think they're trying for the first option. Suing thousands of people for stupidly unreasonable reasons is not a good look, especially for a company where image is everything.
I don't see this holding up - especially because it's ripe for abuse. What's to stop me from making a TOS for my own hashtag?
For it not to be held up, someone has to take Disney to court and win. Good luck with that. It's the whole single-digit millionaires don't have effective access to legal system , turned up to 11. I can only see a double-digit billionaire having the resources to fight this to the end.
Now this individual was remarkably stupid just as a general person, regardless of this event. I don't have any interest in debating the merits of what happened to him one way or the other.
However, it was interesting that the Disney lawyer explicitly informed his lawyer that their strategy would be to just bleed him dry into bankruptcy by getting continuances and stuff forever into the future, which would force him to keep paying his lawyer to show up and do stuff, but would never move the case forward.
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No, they don’t say that. They use ambiguous wording which could easily be construed to include any post they can see.
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For it not to be held up, someone has to take Disney to court and win. Good luck with that. It's the whole single-digit millionaires don't have effective access to legal system , turned up to 11. I can only see a double-digit billionaire having the resources to fight this to the end.
I have an anecdote about this. I worked at Disney for some time and a coworker was an avid 2nd amendment person. They left their firearm in their car as is legal for any employer with a very short list of exceptions. I think munitions development is one of the exceptions, and Disney qualifies because of their massive fireworks shows. I'm very foggy on these details as it's been many years since. Anyways, he was chatt…
Now maybe they just implied that or something, but I very much doubt the story happened exactly as described.
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