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Copyright/licensing of soup.io-posts
Does a user hold copyright on content that he posts on soup.io? Which rights does a user give to soup.io by posting content? Does a user automatically give other users the right to repost his content without prior asking?
Your disclaimer says that a user who posts any content must either hold the copyright of this content or must have the explicit permission of the copyright holder. How do you expect a user to do this when he just wants to share e.g. a random video from YouTube or a great comic?
How do you ensure that users don't include feeds in their soup.io-feed whose copyright (or explicit permission of the owner) they don't have?
Do you obey to RDF-license-tags or links with rel="license" so that e.g. content that is licensed under a CreativeCommons - share-alike license is shared with proper licensing?
Your disclaimer says that a user who posts any content must either hold the copyright of this content or must have the explicit permission of the copyright holder. How do you expect a user to do this when he just wants to share e.g. a random video from YouTube or a great comic?
How do you ensure that users don't include feeds in their soup.io-feed whose copyright (or explicit permission of the owner) they don't have?
Do you obey to RDF-license-tags or links with rel="license" so that e.g. content that is licensed under a CreativeCommons - share-alike license is shared with proper licensing?
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Inappropriate?No, we currently don't parse license tags or links. We should definitely do this in the future, I agree.
As for content that's not tagged in a machine-readable way, we can't do anything else than hand the responsibility off to the poster, just like any other site with user-generated content does.
I'd say (but don't quote me on that, I'm not a lawyer) that most instances of embedding videos, quoting text or an image, and reposting legally fall under fair use provisions (or their equivalent in various jurisdictions), since they're all done for private, non-commercial reasons.
I'll get in touch with our lawyer about possibly adjusting the disclaimer to reflect this.
However, our general policy it this: Wherever we can, we link back to the original source (reposts, bookmarklet posts, feed imports), so credit is given. Beyond that, it's the poster's responsibility.1 Comment
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Christopher,
It is my understanding that, whilst you are right that reblogging certain posts falls under the fair use doctrine, reblogging an entire blog wholesale is not.
Take for example http://sexy.soup.io
That guy has been reblogging our tumblelog wholesale http://wickedknickers.tumblr.com
Whilst many of those pictures fall under fair use, reblogging the special arrangement, selection of our pictures and our entire blog verbatim is clearly not.
Arguing fair use applies in this situation would be akin to suggesting that the use of letters of the alphabet fall under fair use, therefore posting the entire contents of a Harry Potter book verbatim doesn't constitute a copyright violation.
We would like to talk more and collaborate to have this sort of problem resolved.
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Inappropriate?The content on http://airport-express.soup.io/friends is a copyright violation.
The copyright owner is Startups.in
Please have the content removed from http://airport-express.soup.io/friends1 Comment Add a comment
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Can you please send an email to team@soup.io about this from a @startups.in address? We will gladly remove your content if we have confirmation that the requester is the copyright owner.
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