RE: How Plagiarism Can End Steemit And What You Can Do About It
From the latest @steemcleaners report:
The word “copyright” is being removed from our comments. Even though what we are looking for falls under the “fair use” of copyright law, it is not a legal issue that we are concerned with. Our comments are being reworked to ask for the same thing in a different context. Copyright law doesn’t really apply here since it can only be enforced by the creator of the content being infringed upon.
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What I want to see is that a contributor makes it clear when the images or words used are not their own work.
I'm personally not interested in trying to judge whether or not an image has been edited significantly enough to be considered "original" under copyright laws. That is something for the owner of the original image and the courts to decide.
I do think it is a good idea to provide a link to the unaltered images. There has been some discussion in the steemitabuse-classic channel on this. Many who are photographers and graphic artists themselves have inferred that they believe contributor posts that do not acknowledge the original work should not be rewarded. These posts may even need to be commented on and/or flagged.
I'll leave the actual problem of handling copyright law and DCMA up to Steemit, inc.
I agree 100% @patrice We owe to set the standard although we need to remind ourselves that this is th blockchain. We are all shareholders. If one steals, we all steal.
As for Steemit, inc. they are only obliged to remove copyrighted material if they are asked to.
But it is important for the community to help root out plagiators, I just do not know how to take the Steem-dollars away from people... how should it be done, and who should do it? It could impair the decentralization of the place. Honestly I see no other solution than a vigilant community... work, work, work in steemabuse-classic.