The rise of copyright trolls

Posted May 3, 2017 16:46 UTC (Wed) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: The rise of copyright trolls by aggelos
Parent article: The rise of copyright trolls

The perceived problem seems to be not that something is lacking from that text, but that some people enforce their copyright for monetary gain instead of for resolving the actual problem.

Quite frankly: that's their prerogative.

However, if the community-oriented enforcer asks for compliance first AND if the company in question can demonstrate an ongoing good-faith effort to resolve the issue, then the monetary-gain-oriented enforcer does not have much of a legal leg to stand on – at least in Germany TTBOMK, dunno about other jurisdictions; the standard IANAL disclaimer applies.

The rise of copyright trolls

Posted May 3, 2017 17:05 UTC (Wed) by aggelos (subscriber, #41752) [Link]

That is the problem for which some people (see the text I quoted and the immediately preceding text in the article) are suggesting a social contract as a partial solution. I'm not discussing whether this is an effective solution here; only the fact that a similar effort from almost a year ago was not mentioned, either in the discussion (as reported) or the article.

So I think you're making a different point to the one I was.