RT @doctorow
It's a big day for users of @creativecommons images: @Flickr has declared zero tolerance for #CopyleftTrolls, predators who exploit a bug in out-of-date versions of the CC licenses in order to threaten good-faith users of CC images who make minor errors in their image credits. 1/

The #commafucking demonology of #CopyleftTrolls

https://doctorow.medium.com/commafuckers-versus-the-commons-4e8dcdcf7dee

#CureProvision #pilkunnussija #SerpentsInTheGarden

#Commafuckers Versus #TheCommons: #CopyleftTrolls Are the Serpents in Our Garden of Ethical Sharing

https://doctorow.medium.com/commafuckers-versus-the-commons-4e8dcdcf7dee

En viktig delseger mot copyleft-trollen som krävt minst 140000 människor på stora summor med hot om stämningar!

#CreativeCommons
RT @doctorow: It's a big day for users of @CreativeCommons images: @Flickr has declared zero tolerance for #CopyleftTrolls, predators who exploit a bug in out-of-date versions of the CC licenses in order to threaten good-faith users of CC images who make minor errors in their image credits. 1/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/MaxAndersson/status/1642429899519434753

Wow, this is nuts.

“Copyleft trolls post CC-licensed stock art and then wait for a naive person to make a minor attribution error, and then they pounce, sending a legal threat and a speculative invoice demanding hundreds or thousands of dollars, under the threat of a $150,000 statutory damages award.”

→ https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/01/pixsynnussija/

#Pixsy #Flickr #CopyleftTrolls

Today's a big day for users of @creativecommons images: #Flickr has declared zero tolerance for #CopyleftTrolls, predators who exploit a bug in out-of-date versions of the CC licenses in order to threaten good-faith users of CC images who make minor errors in the way they credit the images.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/01/pixsynnussija#pilkunnussija

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