I can understand the frustration but can’t they just… Call them out in the thread? Link their original post?
Not if the reposter blocks them
Hello, I’m on a throwaway account because I already confronted the reposter on my main account.
Backstory: I recently posted a meme, and it only got 50 upvotes. Someone stole my meme and and got over 20,000 upvotes.
I was literally heartbroken and cried. I told the reposter to give me credit, but he made fun of me instead. I know suing someone over a meme sounds silly, but it’s not about the meme. it’s about justice. I’m planning on contacting a lawyer, but I wanna get advice here to see what I can do. So what can I do? I wanna take this to a civil court. Will a judge take it?
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Honestly, I would watch this show. Let’s have an 80-year-old judge preside over the meme theft suit.
You’re all are laughing now, but when that meme hits critical and is spread to every phone in the northern hemisphere, we’ll need to find patient 0P for the cure.
Why is this funny? Thinking on it, shouldn’t copying someone’s created content be actionable on the social platform at the very least?
We are getting so used to people stealing content that it is just become the rule of the land, but imagine creating a painting or writing a book then someone copies it and sells it claiming it’s theirs.
I view memes as more fun when they’re lower stakes, like retelling a joke someone else told you.
Thinking of it from a copyright infringement angle just feels so grimy and commercialized to me.
My perspective is that youre just way too used to the absolute insanity that is copyright and IP in the current world
I mean, technically you can sue anyone for anything… Whether it’s going to be successful or not is a different question.
This is why they made nfts. OP fucked up and didn’t protect himself through the power of block chain.
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hey guys look at this totally original meme I am posting
OP didn’t have to say “literally”. We already knew he was the type to sue over hurt feelings.
Donate $100,000 to Trump and he will levy a 25% tariff on his ass.
Karma is a bitch! I’m so glad Lemmy ditched the total user score, I was way too much stressed about it when using that site.
Theoretically you can calculate the total karma by yourself since the karma isn’t hidden.
True, but you need to go out of your ways to do it instead of see it on each page. Also the count is a bit different in each server instance, as federation is not completely accurate.
You could even create a global high score.
Is there a sovcit sub the OP can be referred to?
I’m sure they will find all the advice they’ll ever need.“I award judgment to you in the amount of eleventy-nillion fake internet points.”
I don’t think they understand what a meme is.
Most don’t.
Most don’t know shit about copyright either, cause OOP has a case, assuming they used their own meme template.
The entire meme economy is technically one big copyright violation, which just shows how utterly broken current copyright law is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jwo5qc78QUA case for what damages? Reddit karma?
And the judge has ruled in favour of the plaintiff and awards them the amount of 20,000 karmas in damages.
Isn’t there an exception for transformative works, like adding captions?
There’s always a relevant Tom Scott video
Not anymore. Didn’t he retire?
Yes, but most of his videos are timeless.
