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RE: Why I removed all my posts!

The copyright owner should make a complaint (for all we know @masteryoda may have obtained the requisite clearance)

We DO know that he didn't get clearances. He already responded that he never contacted any of the original websites, YouTube channels or photographers.

If we are reliant on the community to police copyright infringement we are pretty much screwed as that approach is not scalable.

I agree. Which is why we need to establish best practices ASAP as to what is going to be acceptable before everyone feels that "sharing" others content in order to make profit on it is the way things are done here. It's obviously going to be a huge problem going forward if there are a million users "creating" content to profit from by merely copy and pasting it.

Seriously, these sorts of issues need to be hammered out now so that the platform doesn't hit a wall it can't climb.

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You can define it as a problem or you can be realistic about it, but not both. There will be a million users (if we're lucky) sharing content, just as there have been on every single social media site in the the history of the Internet. That's what people do. It will need to be addressed by copyright holders making takedown requests when they object (which isn't always), just as it is on every other web property.