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RE: Premier League Referees And English FA's Tough Decisions On English Teams

in Sports Talk Social6 months ago (edited)

Hope you are guided by this article on using screenshots in your articles.

Why are you not using the Fair Use Disclaimer?

Since use of screenshots does expose you to potential copyright infringement suits, why do you insist on using so many screenshots, thereby increasing the probability of you being sued?

Personally I think, when copyright owners start suing copyright infringers on Hive, it is very likely that they will include one or more witnesses as Defendants on the basis that these witnesses stand in the position of publishers in web2 and print media. They are likely to do that for two reasons:

a) To test the waters on the legal liability of witnesses for copyright infringements on Hive (and in web 3, generally) over which the witnesses do have some control.

b) To increase their chances of recovering damages because Witnesses are easier to trace and are likely to be financially better off than most bloggers on Hive.

When that happens, then it is very possible that many of the witnesses may start overreacting by abandoning the platform altogether and/or coming up with too stringent rules thereafter, which may choke the platform.

Please note that if the witnesses are held liable and end up paying the whole damages they may, having paid the damages, legally recover the same from the primary infringer, i.e. the blogger.

In my reckoning, when Hive gains sufficient popularity with about 10m subscriber base, the copyright infringement suits will start pouring in.

You have time till then to continue infringing with abandon!!

Joint and Several Liability for Copyright Infringement

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