Facebook Rights Manager
rightsmanager.fb.com
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"the dubious practice where Business Pages and celebs can rip videos from elsewhere, repost the content on Facebook and grow their brands while robbing the content creators of views." (From the article)
(For those who don't know, the word, in the context of copyright, was invented on the excellent Hello Internet podcast - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j-tCHzjam4)
So ... that is the definition of freebooting ...
But what is the definition of "believing that freebooting, and things like it, work at all ?"
Although hopefully this update will stop it working.
But the commentary from those that are the victims indicate that this sort of thing could be very problematic for them. So I do hope that this and this sort of thing helps lock the bad actors out.
on who's part? Did I miss an outraged lawsuit coming out of Youtube over freebooted videos?
I would in fact pay someone to develop this as I think it is something humanity needs. Or I could pivot it into a startup and offer content creators a "safe harbor" to let them know whenever their stuff has been pirated.
The former actually provides a service: I like to be able to show people and revisit funny scenes from i.e. West Wing episodes, and often that prompts me to go re-watch the episode from a legitimate source. The latter has no net gain for the user over just linking, but screws over the OP.
so this is definitely a step in the right direction.
"Digital Rights Management" more like "Digital Restrictions Management"
You're growing your 'brand' as a poster of interesting/funny things (as seen via Karma), I suppose that as long as these entities don't attempt to claim this media as 'original content', I don't really have a problem.
If anything, attributing to the original creator is as simple as pressing 'share status' on facebook, instead of posting a direct url to the content in question.
edit - I fundamentally misunderstood the term freebooting. Will leave comment intact so replies still make sense, but thank you to child posters for clearing up my misconception.
The people doing it aren't profiting from ads like they would by doing it on Facebook, but they're still taking away the pageviews from the original creator.
Consider the case of movie piracy (and for simplification let's exclude people pirating because they don't have money): people often torrent movies because they want to get a decent-quality mp4 file instead of a half-assed player and a third of an operating system that together deliver half an hour of unskippable ads and piracy warnings. Consider the case of videogames - when Steam showed up, piracy went from something everyone does to something shameful among gamers.
Or just today at work we're talking about a streaming site that serves soccer league games. One of my cow-orkers pointed out that this is about the only reasonable way to watch soccer games, because otherwise you'd have to buy subscription to half a dozen cable services - as different leagues have deals with different companies.
Now imgur is a no-bullshit source of images. People know and understand it. It's no surprise people prefer it, and for non-imgur sources you can often find requests to reupload the image to that site.
As for solutions - I don't have one. I don't believe reuploads themselves are a problem. Lack of culture that would encourage attribution is though. But the expectation that you can make money by posting content on the Internet is a bigger problem, IMO. Smart content creators know their work will be copied, reuploaded, shared without attribution, etc. and so they don't base their livelihood on posting stuff on the Internet. Those less smart end up complaining about unfairness, but that IMO makes as much sense as complaining that gravity is unfair. Digital works are inherently copyable, it is in their nature.
Alan Kay's idea was (paraphrasing) "It's great that we have message passing between client and server processes, but we really needed to take this idea and run with it, with each piece of content on the Web being some sort of network-hosted process which you communicated with. Then you by-default preserve provenance (who the author is and how it got here) and then you can integrate micropayments into browsers so that you can earn money for watching ads (and target the ads that you want to watch!) and then use that money to browse the content that you want to watch, etc., with by-default the content-creator reaping the micropayments of their content."
But because nobody solved this rather difficult problem, we have freebooting and you have to reload web pages whenever you change their source and re-navigate down to the menu that you care about, and Brendan Eich is now getting flak from people for trying to reinvent advertising on the internet etc...
agreed. I wonder what will replace imgur now that they've begun moving away from providing that experience.
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I notice there's no recovery mechanism mentioned when it's not a DMCA takedown, other than "We'll tell you".
http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/7333040/facebook-tackl...
I wonder why it took them so long though.
Started playing with Graph API. I was pleasantly surprised that it had matured with some user privacy preserving kabuki. Like issuing unique user ids per app. An earnest effort to make it harder to aggregate and correlate ids across apps. (Alas, deanonymization is pretty easy.)
This is an area of copyright I have the biggest problem with. If I'm at a venue, copyright holders should not be able to exercise copyright claims over what I see/hear while attending, unless the ticket itself puts a restriction on recordation. In the latter case, that becomes a function of license enforcement that cannot be effected thru the DMCA.
Imagine you record a video with friends - the band is playing in the background. Copyright law allows the band to takedown the clip.
They almost always do (at least in my experience), it's just rarely enforced.
Ann is a content creator. She doesn't use facebook.
Bob is a freebooter, and steals Ann's content, and posts it to his facebook page, grabbing views and ad revenue.
Is Ann protected by this new thing from Facebook? Or does Ann need to become a Facebook user to become protected by this thing?
Steve Miller's rant was only yesterday. The harder we let corporations ossify the notion that all knowledge should be owned and paid for every time it is used, the more we will suffer.
Finally, you can't steal what is given away free. It's time for a paradigm shift, humanity. Slay this dragon.
For a photographer to take an amazing photo of Zion National Park, they have travel, equipment, and time expenses. In this case, how does the photographer get compensated for all of this if some celeb or background site takes the photo and writes on it: "My home on the range."
The huge back-end that is required to make something is the unseen portion of the economy, there should be a rights warehouse making it easy to put things on and declare usage fees.
*Edit: their to there, because I is grammatically correct.
The photographer would need to be be compensated for their time and effort beforehand, if at all, but the age when one can expect to be paid for content or knowledge seems to be rapidly coming to an end. "Freebooting" is only a problem because we've tried to make ownership and copyright work in a medium that renders them irrelevant, but really it's just the web working as intended.
Like a lot of people here, I benefit personally from being able to assert ownership over digital content, but I can also see the writing on the wall.
"..we are now seeing the effects of free and immediate duplication of a product. And, sadly, we have been caught with our pants down."
Seems like for $5k a month they can use it for 5 websites and $1k a website a month is worth the mindset of "set it and forget it".
I work in the marketing department of a late stage technology start up and we face the same problem. We have lots of excellent people all over the company, but it's a tradeoff in terms of asking people to work on Wordpress hosting infra vs. just paying a service like Wordpress VIP to handle it.
That said, I'm sure WP VIP will break down when Marketing's needs increase – such as when Marketing needs to do internationalization, or perform a timed launch of a new site/content update.
(EG Picture of injured dog with "Like if you are against animal cruelty")