As he should. I think people forget that posting the full text of an article opens up the instance admins to legal issues. News articles are copyrighted; just because it’s easy to copy and paste doesn’t mean it’s legal to do so, and you put your instance at risk by doing it. The mod also doesn’t seem that angry; looks like maybe OP is adding their own spin here.
Looks like the commenters are all just Hexbear trash being typical Hexbear trash. Just the standard “intellectual property doesn’t exist because I don’t like it” bullshit.
What legal issues are you suggesting here? Where’s the precedent for that? Supreme Court case after Supreme Court case have shown that websites cannot be held accountable for the comments of its users. A plain text quoting of an article would be extremely hard to tie to the administrators website. Much less anybody.
This is just an extremely panicky response that has no basis in reality.
One endpoint it could wind up at would be some outlets starting to send DMCA takedown notices to Lemmy instances in the US. That wouldn’t be ideal, and it probably wouldn’t start stop once it started, however much anybody tried to put the horse back in the barn at that point.
Every so often I get reminded that Lemmy puts me talking with people who have no idea what they’re talking about, and are just confidently making random statements that line up with what they want to be true at that moment.
Yes, Virginia, online news articles are copyrighted.
As he should. I think people forget that posting the full text of an article opens up the instance admins to legal issues. News articles are copyrighted; just because it’s easy to copy and paste doesn’t mean it’s legal to do so, and you put your instance at risk by doing it. The mod also doesn’t seem that angry; looks like maybe OP is adding their own spin here.
Looks like the commenters are all just Hexbear trash being typical Hexbear trash. Just the standard “intellectual property doesn’t exist because I don’t like it” bullshit.
What legal issues are you suggesting here? Where’s the precedent for that? Supreme Court case after Supreme Court case have shown that websites cannot be held accountable for the comments of its users. A plain text quoting of an article would be extremely hard to tie to the administrators website. Much less anybody.
This is just an extremely panicky response that has no basis in reality.
You’re thinking of Section 230, which doesn’t have a lot to do with copyright. This is more involving the DMCA.
One endpoint it could wind up at would be some outlets starting to send DMCA takedown notices to Lemmy instances in the US. That wouldn’t be ideal, and it probably wouldn’t
startstop once it started, however much anybody tried to put the horse back in the barn at that point.Edit: Words are hard
How on Earth would a dmca cover this? There’s no copyrighted involved.
Every so often I get reminded that Lemmy puts me talking with people who have no idea what they’re talking about, and are just confidently making random statements that line up with what they want to be true at that moment.
Yes, Virginia, online news articles are copyrighted.