Woman's boobs posted in /r/onoff. Owner of said boobs shows up, saying she did not authorized them to be posted here, only in /r/gonewild. Replies containing phrases like "Newsflash sweetheart" ensues. Oh, um, NSFW, if that isn't obvious. (np.reddit.com)
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83 comments submitted at 20:28:28 on Feb 18, 2014 by bluemayhem
Posts like this are a great example of how little reddit on the whole knows about IP rights There are bloggers out there that have had judgements brought against them for thousands of dollars because they grabbed a pic at random from the internet. Not to say that will happen here but there are far more protections for your content on the internet then people realize.
I get your point, but do you think that a woman who is taking the precautions to exclude her face from nude photos she's posting to the internet is going to take this to court?
Was I not clear on that in my last sentence?
You were, I was just making sure you were following the proper protocols.
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But that's because they were using the image on their blog. Not the same as posting an image on a public forum.
doesn't matter
Would cross-posting within the same website that originally had the post be such a violation? I feel like it would be hard to prosecute such a thing.
It has been a while since I look over Reddit's tos but from what I remember places like Reddit, tumblr, flickr all have bits in their user agreements that allow other members of the site to repost, reblog, reshare content you post. Afterall they would not be able to function with out it.
The problem comes when people rehost the material outside of control of the original creator.
If we're going to play lawyers on the internet here, let's parse this out. The image was posted to imgur, it was only linked from reddit. Wouldn't that mean that imgur's TOS is the one that applies?