A link to Doctorow‘s article on Flickr effectively upgrading to version 4ish approach of cc-licenses (not an April fools joke and good news)
https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/01/pixsynnussija/

Hopefully Flickr will use version 4 in the (near?) future.

The article also contains background on the history of Flickr and creative commons.

And by the way: all of my published media uses version 4 of the cc licenses (like much of WM media).

#creativecommons #copyright #trolls #doctorow #pixsy #flickr

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

> If you are a good-faith user of CC licenses, then your response to an incorrect attribution string should be a request to correct it, not a threat to sue for $150,000 in statutory damages.

Unethical as this conduct is, it's also big business. One company, #Pixsy, is responsible for a long-running shakedown campaign, working with scammy photographers to send out demand letters to unsuspecting Creative Commons users.

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#5yrsago In-depth investigation of the Alibaba-to-Instagram pipeline for scammy crapgadgets with excellent branding https://www.jennyodell.com/museumofcapitalism_freewatch.pdf

#1yrago Podcasting about #Pixsy, the copyleft trolls who tried to shake me down https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/31/heel-turn/#pixsy

#1yrago Grappling with Big Wrestling https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/31/heel-turn/#do-the-crusher

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