A few friends and I were discussing this the other night and how Facebook is guilty of gaining revenue off of Youtube videos in the same way. I think this is a huge issue! We Steemers need to ensure this doesn't happen by making sure we flag anything that's copyrighted. I'm already guilty of this by posting an old youtube video, and immediately afterwards I had realized what I had done. Thankfully it didn't make any profits. Still, I shouldn't have done it.
Please ensure that if you see anything copyrighted, or if you see posts that are the same as someone else except reworded, to place links in the comment section to the original content. Please also advise other Steemians when this occurs just as @tuck-fheman done here in regards to the recently trending heroin addiction story which is an old article reworded: https://steemit.com/steem/@tuck-fheman/red-flag-5-years-addicted-to-heroin-my-story-told-in-pictures-from-article-written-in-january
Do your part to keep high quality content coming.
Peace and Love
- Sensei
This is a huge and interesting issue. I would hate to see Garth Brooks or Metallica or anyone who is upset with this set-up sue Steemit.
Great point. There's already been a lot of people making money off of posting music videos. Honestly, this could be the only thing that kills Steem as it's as you say, a potential lawsuit waiting to happen. Hopefully @dan and @ned get on this with at least a disclaimer or better yet a terms and conditions agreement.
Yah, I love the idea of uncensored content and this is going to be a wild wild west of people working that opportunity for the best and the worst...! The disclaimer and or terms and conditions would be appreciated for a bit of site protection.
There's already a Terms of Service, but the copyright section doesn't include any mention of this issue but instead focuses on the copyright of Steem and Steemit itself. Hopefully they update that to include a clause covering this.
We'll see what they do to combat this issue in the future.
We are not being paid in US dollars people. It's steem.
Steem isn't real money. They don't pay you in US dollars. Steem isn't even connected to a bank or credit.
If the goal of steem is not to be real then what the is it?? In my opinion all of this is a based on a real goal of being real. To actually be more real to people than the us dollar is someday.
It's still a currency; a crypto currency.
Cryptocurrencies have been considered taxable commodities for a while now...