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I'd totally buy that hat though.
OK, I have to add the parroting of racist and twitter laser pointer!
I feel bad about being a downer to the Gulch, but I REALLY wouldn't want you to be blindsided by a $30,000 judgment for copyright infringement for every meme you post.
If this thing doesn't become law, then I'm playing Chicken Little. I can live with that. But if it does, you'd be risking financial ruin just to add some sunshine to the world.
This is the first part of the article from The American Mirror:
'A bi-partisan bill working its way through Congress could drastically change how copyright claims are processed, and would create a system to impose up to $30,000 in fines on anyone who shares protected material online.
In other words, the Congress wants to make it easier to sue people who send a meme or post images that they didn’t create themselves, essentially a giveaway to lawyers who sue unsuspecting suckers for a living.
The Senate Judiciary Committee last week approved the “Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2019,” which "creates a voluntary small claims board within the Copyright Office that will provide copyright owners with an alternative to the expensive process of bringing copyright claims, including infringement and misrepresentation …. in federal court,” according to the Copyright Alliance.
“This new board, called the Copyright Claims Board (CCB), would allow recovery in each case of up to $30,000 in damages total, with a cap of $15,000 in statutory damages per work infringed,” according to the alliance, an advocacy group for the copyright industry.
Critics contend the CCB created would essentially provide a way for copyright trolls to target individuals or small businesses to secure five-figure default judgments for innocent mistakes. Put another way, someone who shares memes they didn’t make could be on the hook for $30,000 in fines from folks who make a living from copyright lawsuits.'
I'll have to look into that and I'll try to keep abreast of this legislation...thanks for the heads up.
Maybe I need to change careers; think Harvard or Stanford or Yale would accept a 62 year old first year law student?
Cortex: "So there is an Amazon river". Priceless!
Clinton vs Biden: amateur
The Rapinoe effect of soccer
Trump: Make the media mad again- He is playing them like a fiddle!
Thanks Carl for your canvassing these. Great collection as always.
But I'm not ashamed that I wondered if it was something she said, because ... well let us just say it wouldn't be out of character.
My Def. of Anti-Lectual.