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Ishida_Akira(fake)
Joined: 23 Apr 2022
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 Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 3:56 pm
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It's very obviously a joke, and people egging him on are from Japan, who have no clue what fair use is. While you could argue that using art as a meme is a violation, it should be transformative enough to be covered by fair use.
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TarsTarkas
Joined: 20 Dec 2007
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Location: Virginia, United States
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 4:17 pm
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If he could actually sue for posting meme's, that would open it up for everyone to be sued for posting meme's and retweeting them too.
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MagicPolly
Joined: 26 Nov 2020
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 4:23 pm
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This whole time I had no clue that was from Magical Girl Site
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TsukasaElkKite
Joined: 22 Nov 2005
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 4:24 pm
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Now THIS is how I wanna be petty!
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Hal14
Joined: 01 Apr 2018
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Location: Heart of africa
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 4:31 pm
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| TarsTarkas wrote: | | If he could actually sue for posting meme's, that would open it up for everyone to be sued for posting meme's and retweeting them too. |
There is precedent for suing someone over meme usage. There was a video game called Meme run than got taken off the Wii U e-shop because, allegedly, the owner of the 'trollface' meme sent a DMCA to Nintendo because the meme was in the game w/out his permission.
In general, copyright is more about whether or not the owner is actually bothered. You can have a genuine claim to copyright but choose not to sue. For example, because of bad PR.
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The_Daytona_500
Joined: 14 Aug 2015
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 4:48 pm
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The first step to a glorious meme-free world
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jdnation
Joined: 15 May 2007
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 4:53 pm
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| The_Daytona_500 wrote: | | The first step to a glorious meme-free world |
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The_Outsider
Joined: 09 Sep 2021
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 4:57 pm
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Well I'm all for screwing over Musk, take him for every penny he stole from actual working people.
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encrypted12345
Joined: 25 Jan 2012
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 5:00 pm
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| The_Outsider wrote: | | Well I'm all for screwing over Musk, take him for every penny he stole from actual working people. |
What, and fine every website that has hosted a variation of that meme ever?
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AQuin1904
Joined: 13 Nov 2021
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 5:13 pm
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Leaving aside the specifics of who's posting it (and the fact that this is obviously a joke, although the annoyance is probably genuine), I think there is a real argument to be had (certainly ethically and possibly legally) about turning a piece of someone's work into a widely disseminated symbol without their permission. Yes, a successful case could lead to a crackdown on meme templates, but that doesn't strike me as a hill worth dying on.
Edit: Early-morning me is an idiot who tries to take everything way too seriously.
Last edited by AQuin1904 on Wed Nov 09, 2022 9:22 pm; edited 1 time in total
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Hoppy800
Joined: 09 Aug 2013
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 5:39 pm
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Sato isn't getting a single yen from Musk, fair use is king in Twitter's homeland, the draconian legislation on copyright in Japan doesn't apply here.
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Everlasting Coconut
Joined: 22 Jul 2019
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 5:42 pm
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| MagicPolly wrote: | | This whole time I had no clue that was from Magical Girl Site |
Came here to say this. The more you know 
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encrypted12345
Joined: 25 Jan 2012
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 5:46 pm
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| AQuin1904 wrote: | | Yes, a successful case could lead to a crackdown on meme templates, but that doesn't strike me as a hill worth dying on. |
It's definitely a hill worth dying on, since banning (free) meme templates would undermine fair use laws. That would kill reviewing media as a business among other things.
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MarshalBanana
Joined: 31 Aug 2014
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 5:57 pm
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This is such a strange coincidence, I also want Royalties from Elon Musk.
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MrTerrorist
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 6:03 pm
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Knowing how thin skin Musk is since he banned parody accounts that pretended to be him and made fun of him, i wouldn't be surprised if Musk would do the same thing with Sato's account.
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