The House passed a new copyright bill (the CASE Act) on October 22, 2019, and in the Senate it has been approved by the Committee on the Judiciary without amendment.
As outlined in the bill, damages would be capped at $15,000 for each infringed work [article, photo, cartoon, etc.] I fear that FR would not survive the financial loss of paying multiple damages for copyright infringement, and with that kind of money involved, lawsuits would inevitably follow.
Concerning copyright infringement, Admin Moderator graciously explained to us yesterday in the Q thread that...
"The problem is, we can't check every thread. We depend on all members to report issues wherever and whenever they're found."
This is done by finding the words "Report Abuse" (found on the bottom line of each reply) -- it is a clickable link. Click it and write 'copyright' in the message box.
So, it's not being a troll or a snitch to report abuse of copyright... it's literally helping to save something that we love and rely on, Free Republic!
Are Garrison cartoons allowed? IIRC its a no. Please advise. Thanks!
“The problem is, we can’t check every thread. We depend on all members to report issues wherever and whenever they’re found.”
This is done by finding the words “Report Abuse” (found on the bottom line of each reply) — it is a clickable link. Click it and write ‘copyright’ in the message box.
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A big Thank You to the Mods/JR for letting me back.
Deks is right. Carelessness or not understanding WTH is not
allowed will not be an excuse when it comes to fines and threats to our FR existence.
I don’t know if it was a third forbidden cartoonist that got my toons deleted. I’m thinking that the image in the second post that was deleted and killed me off came from twitter or another thread on the forum..because I’ve never been on that forbidden-to-post-from website..(post-gazette)..which is even scarier because it came third party.
If we try to self-police, though, The abuse-button-pusher needs to also post why they did it. Otherwise, we’ll never know what it was or why, and we need to learn.
Please don’t be hatin’... you’re my fambly.
#nohomo
#badmama