Rep Louis Gohmert of Texas is calling the Democrat party out on their utter hypocrisy by applying their stupid rule to their own party. Watch them block the bill.
HIVE is unique in that users are rewarded with HIVE for their posts. Essentially, an the upvote of an account with $250 in HP is worth a penny. I have about $750; so my upvote is worth about $0.03.
I need to warn you. This platform is not kind to people who simply reblog news articles. The platform is especially hostile to bloggers who copy and paste images from large media sites.
This is largely due to legal problems that copyright violations cause platforms like this.
Your page has images from FoxMedia, the NYPost, the Blaze and other sites.
My guess is that you have not obtained the rights from the photographers to post these images.
If you have not obtained the rights to publish the images on your posts; then you are in violation of US and International copyright laws.
HIVE responds to copyright violations by downvoting accounts.
A down vote removes the rewards from a post. There are several large accounts like @cheetah and @hivewatchers which are likely to start downvoting your posts.
This is because you are violating copyright laws.
These accounts will strip all of the awards from your account. It is likely that you will have your account placed in a blacklist.
HIVE is a publishing platform. You have to behave like a responsible publisher and obtain the rights to publish the images that you post on your account.
Anyway, this platform does not take well to accounts that simply reblog news stories. I think you might have something valuable to contribute to the platform. But you need to stop what you are doing. Perhaps you could try editing and removing the images before the downvotes start.
I don't understand the issue. Briefly quoting news articles is considered fair use. You're saying it's specifically the images? Any time you provide a hyperlink to a news article in a social media site, it includes the image for the thumbnail automatically for you - it's literally a built-in feature on Twitter, FaceBook, and other sites.
Copying an Image is not a brief quotation. Photographers and artists spend a great deal of money to create good images.
The Fair Use exception to Copyright law is extremely complex. Putting the image as the lead in to your story implies that you either created the image or obtained permission to use the image from the copyright holder.
You would lose any lawsuit against your posts.
BTW: Social media sites get a barrage of copyright complaints. Most sites like Facebook and Youtube would give your account a copyright strike for the images.
HIVE has a downvote system to thwart copyright claims.
Facebooks gets away with showing images from web sites because they created a weird thing called the Open Graphics Protocol. OGP encourages web sites to create a graphical object to represent a page.
The stupid protocol does not explicitly specify what rights sites give up when they use the protocol.
Technically, Facebook does not republish the images. They publish an object specified by the owners of the images.
My understand of the protocol is that it simply creates an object that other sites can embed on pages that reference an article. The protocol does not release the image used in the object into the public domain.
Anyway, the way you published the images would not be interpreted as fair use. I don't know how courts would interpret the OG protocol. The OG protocol defines and object. Does including an image in an OG object automatically release the image into the public domain? It would be a landmark ruling if it did.
Welcome to HIVE. I wish you well on the platform.
HIVE is unique in that users are rewarded with HIVE for their posts. Essentially, an the upvote of an account with $250 in HP is worth a penny. I have about $750; so my upvote is worth about $0.03.
I need to warn you. This platform is not kind to people who simply reblog news articles. The platform is especially hostile to bloggers who copy and paste images from large media sites.
This is largely due to legal problems that copyright violations cause platforms like this.
Your page has images from FoxMedia, the NYPost, the Blaze and other sites.
My guess is that you have not obtained the rights from the photographers to post these images.
If you have not obtained the rights to publish the images on your posts; then you are in violation of US and International copyright laws.
HIVE responds to copyright violations by downvoting accounts.
A down vote removes the rewards from a post. There are several large accounts like @cheetah and @hivewatchers which are likely to start downvoting your posts.
This is because you are violating copyright laws.
These accounts will strip all of the awards from your account. It is likely that you will have your account placed in a blacklist.
HIVE is a publishing platform. You have to behave like a responsible publisher and obtain the rights to publish the images that you post on your account.
Anyway, this platform does not take well to accounts that simply reblog news stories. I think you might have something valuable to contribute to the platform. But you need to stop what you are doing. Perhaps you could try editing and removing the images before the downvotes start.
I don't understand the issue. Briefly quoting news articles is considered fair use. You're saying it's specifically the images? Any time you provide a hyperlink to a news article in a social media site, it includes the image for the thumbnail automatically for you - it's literally a built-in feature on Twitter, FaceBook, and other sites.
Copying an Image is not a brief quotation. Photographers and artists spend a great deal of money to create good images.
The Fair Use exception to Copyright law is extremely complex. Putting the image as the lead in to your story implies that you either created the image or obtained permission to use the image from the copyright holder.
You would lose any lawsuit against your posts.
BTW: Social media sites get a barrage of copyright complaints. Most sites like Facebook and Youtube would give your account a copyright strike for the images.
HIVE has a downvote system to thwart copyright claims.
Facebooks gets away with showing images from web sites because they created a weird thing called the Open Graphics Protocol. OGP encourages web sites to create a graphical object to represent a page.
The stupid protocol does not explicitly specify what rights sites give up when they use the protocol.
Technically, Facebook does not republish the images. They publish an object specified by the owners of the images.
So, I wrote a post that asks the Hive community about their opinion of the Open Graph Protocol.
My understand of the protocol is that it simply creates an object that other sites can embed on pages that reference an article. The protocol does not release the image used in the object into the public domain.
Anyway, the way you published the images would not be interpreted as fair use. I don't know how courts would interpret the OG protocol. The OG protocol defines and object. Does including an image in an OG object automatically release the image into the public domain? It would be a landmark ruling if it did.