Comments | foresthouse: Let's Talk About Infringement on the Internet (Again)

foresthouse

Let's Talk About Infringement on the Internet (Again)

Sep 26, 2011 23:12

The internet is a weird, wild place. One of the glorious things about it is the ease and immediacy with which we can communicate, share, create, sell, add and delete online content, and more ( Read more... )

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particle_person September 27 2011, 03:30:52 UTC

Hey, I think you're missing the key link to Francesco Francavilla's callout! This line just repeats the Francesco link in the previous line instead of going to his entry about it (which I can't seem to find):
"who called out Teefury.com today for infringing on a work he created in 2006"

foresthouse September 27 2011, 03:34:53 UTC

Ooops. Thanks! Fixed now. :)

particle_person September 27 2011, 03:45:10 UTC

Hm. Looking at the two images...they're very similar, but they aren't the same at all. Maybe it would be infringing in the legal sense, but I'm not feeling the moral outrage on this one. It looks more like someone didn't quite like Francesco's version but thought the basic idea was worth doing a variation on. Like, I could imagine wanting to own both of those variants.

foresthouse September 27 2011, 04:03:19 UTC

It's true they aren't the same, i.e. they do not = each other. But in the legal sense, they do not need to be for infringement to occur; and the similarities here, to my eye as an attorney at least, are strong enough to hold up the argument that there has been infringement.

particle_person September 27 2011, 04:06:53 UTC

I'm sure, I just can't bring myself to feel all RAHHH ARTIST about it. Your lawyerly skills are unquestioned. ;-)

foresthouse September 27 2011, 04:28:49 UTC

Fair enough. I probably get more angry about infringement than the average person. :)

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scifantasy September 27 2011, 13:26:46 UTC

I have recently opined that arguing copyright law on the internet (especially with laymen, but I'm not sure it's better if two lawyers mix it up) is one of the classic blunders, along with "never get involved in a land war in Asia" and "never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line." And besides, I'm at work, and don't have internet in my apartment yet (Verizon is coming tomorrow to hook everything up--yay FiOS!), so let's just put a pin in this and come back later, eh? *grin*

foresthouse October 9 2011, 02:57:55 UTC

Hah! Well, I know it's one of those things that can turn crazy on the internet; but then, can't everything?

scifantasy October 9 2011, 03:00:16 UTC

This moreso than most.