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Senate moves bill with up to $15,000 fines for sharing memes online
theamericanmirror.com ^
| July 26, 2019
| VICTOR SKINNER
Posted on 07/28/2019 2:18:26 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote
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posted on
07/28/2019 3:00:20 PM PDT
by
KSCITYBOY
(The media is corrupt)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Voting for it, even if it doesn't pass, will be an impeachable offense, y'know, under the Nadler standards. Thanks ransomnote.
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posted on
07/28/2019 3:02:31 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: ransomnote
Is there going to be a sunset exception in this bill. How would you eliminate every image and meme you used in the past?
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posted on
07/28/2019 3:04:01 PM PDT
by
jonrick46
(Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
To: ransomnote
What country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.
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posted on
07/28/2019 3:17:50 PM PDT
by
mrmeyer
(You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
To: ransomnote
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posted on
07/28/2019 3:20:43 PM PDT
by
KSCITYBOY
(The media is corrupt)
To: ransomnote
What about fair use? Hot linking? We may be out of business.
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posted on
07/28/2019 3:29:05 PM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: ransomnote
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posted on
07/28/2019 3:31:08 PM PDT
by
KSCITYBOY
(The media is corrupt)
To: ransomnote
Shades of the EU’s Articles 15 and 17 (formerly 11 and 13).
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posted on
07/28/2019 3:36:08 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Break out the mustard seeds)
To: mewzilla
The United States Senate has become our very own House of Lords.
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posted on
07/28/2019 3:37:32 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Break out the mustard seeds)
To: ransomnote
The only way around it is for meme makers to use only stick figures and to have a creative commons symbol on the meme...
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posted on
07/28/2019 3:40:23 PM PDT
by
abigkahuna
(How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
To: ransomnote
I can see how this can be used to suppress memes, which is where most comments are directed. But, isn’t the intent of this to shut down peer to peer file traffic transfers in general? Movies, software, books, TV shows, etc?
To: ransomnote
Sounds like the need for a new paid Internet service - "Meme Republic".
[ INSERT PIC OF WRESTLER RANDY SAVAGE SAYING "OH YEAH!" ]
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posted on
07/28/2019 3:47:10 PM PDT
by
The Duke
(President Trump = America's Last, Best Chance)
To: Major Matt Mason
Can there be any doubt the United States Senate is the bottom of the beltway sewer?
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posted on
07/28/2019 3:48:47 PM PDT
by
lodi90
To: ransomnote
A bi-partisan bill working its way through Congress... What was it that that old comedian George Carlin said about "b-partisan"?
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posted on
07/28/2019 3:55:33 PM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
To: ransomnote
Somehow this stinks of New York City.
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posted on
07/28/2019 4:05:09 PM PDT
by
dljordan
To: ransomnote; bitt; Liz; bagster
Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2019
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posted on
07/28/2019 4:21:30 PM PDT
by
ptsal
To: ransomnote
Sounds right for a backwards Swamp constantly at war with We The People.
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posted on
07/28/2019 4:22:53 PM PDT
by
Vision
(Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped.)
To: ransomnote
Politicians hate memes that nail their bad behavior. This is a blatant attack on free speech.
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posted on
07/28/2019 4:25:48 PM PDT
by
Nateman
(If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
To: ransomnote
Why not permit the evolution of an ASCAP or BMI for memes?
Outfits that broadcast songwriters' tunes (i.e., restaurants, live venues, radio stations, streaming services) pay a fee to ASCAP and/or BMI. They take those monies and redistribute them to the owners of that property on the basis of playlists and other methods of documenting how often their songs are being played.
The ASCAP-equvalent for memes could collect a fee from ISPs or hosting services or whatever (which would be passed on to the users) and then, based on an accounting of how often, say, Grumpy Cat memes are posted on your website, the Estate of Grumpy Cat would receive a payment.
It isn't perfect. But the alternative, i.e., ignoring property rights, is something I'd expect from the DNC. Paying for the use of property is the classically liberal way of dealing with the problem.
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posted on
07/28/2019 4:41:38 PM PDT
by
DoodleBob
(Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
To: LeoTDB69
Wouldn’t this conflict in many cases with Fair Use?Fair use is defined by 17 U.S.C. § 107, and this would presumably modify that section of the U.S.C.
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posted on
07/28/2019 4:46:51 PM PDT
by
NobleFree
("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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