Copyrighted material

There is the option to report posts, and it is in the "Terms and Rules" (link at the very bottom of every page) that copyright infringements are forbidden, so I'm sure that @L-u-c-y wants us to stay legal.

Have you actually reported any that you know to be copyrighted?
What happened?

 

Any content I post is my own original work to which I hold the rights. I'd encourage everyone not to post the work of others without permission - while I write for fun many do so for a living.

 

Is there such a thing as original material on the internet?

I am asking partly in jest. Of course we should honor the original rights of original content. Let's be careful.

But these days, darn near everything was found--then distributed--on the public domain.

Just TRY to find original chastity material that wasn't regurgitated from somewhere else. Heck, I even wrote some under a pseudonym only to watch it being cited as scientific work. THAT I find amusing. I DO try to write truthful things though.....

 

If all questionably posted material was removed from the internet it would pretty much collapse overnight.

Of course, it would run much faster since millions upon millions of sites would vanish. I am not advocating this, but let's be realistic, something like this cannot be regulated t scale.

 

Well said.

 

@L-u-c-y really needs to have a copyright infringement provision on this site with a specific process on how to notice the site if someone sees their copyright protected material on here and wants it taken down. The US DMCA (under the Copyright Act), gives the site and site owner safe harbor if they 1) have a policy (basically available to crib from any number of sites; 2) take down infringements in a timely manner upon notice; and 3) have a registered agent registered with the US Copyright Office. You have to do all 3 and if you do, she will be immune from liability for copyright infringement carried out by people on this site. At the moment, I don't see that has happened, so there is a risk. It's easier to comply with those 3 rules than it is to police all of the postings.

 

If Tumblr and Bdsmlr had to ban captioned pictures, they would probably collapse.

I have been contacted several times by people who claimed to have rights to some of the pictures I've used. I have received permission by some and have been denied by others. For those, I remove them.

That said, there's a difference between using a picture, and using a book. If the book is still in print, then digital bootlegs are stealing from the author.