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TheKefka
Croatia11752 Posts
On February 27 2012 03:34 VillageBC wrote: Meh, mistakes happen. MLG is run by people and those people make mistakes. To be fair MLG seems to make a fair share of mistakes haha | ||
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MrHighlight
United States43 Posts
KK, /thread. User was warned for this post | ||
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shell
Portugal2722 Posts
Instead of MLG using his picture without permission and the guy missing out on this, he could have seen it and MLG wouldn't be in this mess.. | ||
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GertHeart
United States631 Posts
On February 27 2012 03:30 ch33psh33p wrote: No, people WONT see him in a negative light. Look at this thread, the only people being seen in a negative light are posters like you, who feel that LEGAL COPYRIGHT LAWS don't apply to MLG just becuaes they're "helping" eSports? So what, its okay to screw over everyone else? Stop being so selective in your vision. Its really disappointing to think its okay to shit on the little guys. Negative, It's not about MLG for me here. It's about the guy got free advertising regardless of the source of it. That's the truth, he just got free advertising, and is now putting himself out there telling people about it more, so now he is making his name more known. Problem is, he is bringing drama with it. People won't want to hire him more if he has drama, unnecessary drama. | ||
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ensign_lee
United States1178 Posts
Seems like a complete overreaction on your part here. It's a friggin' picture. Geez. Photographers like you piss me off so much. You. took. a freaking. picture. For that matter, did you get Sheth's permission to take that picture and try to profit off of it? Do you have written proof of that permission? Get over yourself. Be thankful that your photo is helping the esports community. If you want some sort of compensation or credit, talk to MLG. Why is there a thread on here about this? How exactly can TL help you? | ||
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AKomrade
United States582 Posts
In order to legitimately copyright something, you need to physically fill out the forms and pay for the copyright, not rely on a website who says that maybe they'll help you out if their partner feels like they can gain something from it (GETTY will license it, not you, so you don't own the rights to the picture, Getty does). Additionally, the picture may or may not have been taken with Sheth's permission, so if HE wants, he can have it taken down and noone can have that picture. It also means your case would be dogshit in court, not that it wouldn't have been to begin with, since you didn't have a legitimate copyright to it. Not too clear on the picture rights part of copyright law, but I'm pretty sure that it covers only the specific picture, not a cropped and reversed version. TL;DR - MLG didn't violate any "laws" that could get them sued because of the process the photographer took to "protect" his image, which may or may not have even been an image the subject actually wanted taken of him. In a court of law, this would be thrown out immediately. | ||
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Doodsmack
United States7224 Posts
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bovineblitz
United States314 Posts
On February 27 2012 03:26 k1mjee wrote: Oh get over yourself, it's a fucking picture. For all that MLG has done for e-sports including help TeamLiquid as well as every single one of you people with entertainment with their events, this isn't the end of the world for you and it won't destroy your photography career and/or hobby. What do you want to do? Sue MLG for $100,000 because they don't have written consent from you? Oh, please. Someone just get Lee on here or something and give this guy a free Gold Membership or something so he calms down. This happens in e-sports every minute of every day with articles, news posts, and everything else that goes on in the scene. Looks like someone doesn't understand how this stuff works. Too many kids on TL apparently. | ||
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Froadac
United States6733 Posts
MLG dropped the ball here, but I know a lot of organizations suck at this, and it is not the end of the world. However, they ought to cease using that one. | ||
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minilance
Canada500 Posts
On February 27 2012 03:31 dafunk wrote: Why not just send them an email and try to talk to them directly. Making a thread about it and get this public with all the drama involved is not very smart (and not very "professional"). It just seems like you want to "hurt" them instead of just resolving the problem in a mannered way. just close the thread and go talk to them | ||
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sleepingdog
Austria6145 Posts
Just sums up that some people have no idea how intellectual property law works. Very serious problem, considering that even most of the non-profit-websites must be careful about what pictures they use. MLG really ought to be more careful. | ||
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Bagration
United States18282 Posts
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JOJOsc2news
3000 Posts
On February 27 2012 03:30 Korlinni wrote: 17. DMCA Notice: MLG owns, protects and enforces copyrights in its own creative material and respects the copyright properties of others. Materials may be made available on or via the Services by third parties not within the control of MLG. It is our policy not to permit materials known by us to be infringing to remain on this Site and to terminate relationships regarding content with third parties repeatedly infringing the copyrights of others. You should notify us promptly if you believe any materials on the Services infringe a third party copyright. Upon our receipt of a proper notice of claimed infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"), MLG will respond expeditiously to follow the procedures specified in the DMCA to resolve the claim between the notifying party and the alleged infringer who provided the content in issue, including, where applicable, removing, or disabling access to material claimed to be infringing or by removing or disabling access to links to such material. Pursuant to the DMCA 17 U.S.C. 512 (c), MLG has designated the EVP of Business Affairs and Development of Major League Gaming Inc. as its agent for notification of claims of copyright infringement with respect to information residing, at the direction of a user, on the Services. From MLG's ToS. So instead of bitching on public forums, take it up with MLG yourself. Why not take it to a public forum? It is ok to have dozens of threads about rescheduling flights, stream feedback (you can do that directly too) etc. All good publicity but as soon as something negative pops up it shouldn't be public? Nuh uh... | ||
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Tula
Austria1544 Posts
On February 27 2012 03:30 ch33psh33p wrote: No, people WONT see him in a negative light. Look at this thread, the only people being seen in a negative light are posters like you, who feel that LEGAL COPYRIGHT LAWS don't apply to MLG just becuaes they're "helping" eSports? So what, its okay to screw over everyone else? Stop being so selective in your vision. Its really disappointing to think its okay to shit on the little guys. what copyright? Seriously that is the question I want answered before we go further in this discussion. | ||
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Snuggles
United States1865 Posts
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McKTenor13
United States1383 Posts
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turdburgler
England6749 Posts
On February 27 2012 03:37 sleepingdog wrote: Just sums up that some people have no idea how intellectual property law works. Very serious problem, considering that even most of the non-profit-websites must be careful about what pictures they use. MLG really ought to be more careful. most not for profit organisations just cite fair use or use a lower quality image as to not hurt the value of the original, this is clearly just a copy and paste job though :D On February 27 2012 03:38 McKTenor13 wrote: Why didn't you just go to MLG first. There is no need to make a whole thread about it. You're just trying to hurt MLG's reputation and make them look bad. If you went to them first, they shut the door on your face, and were just assholes to you, THEN you make it clear to the community. If I needed a picture of Sheth I would probably do the same thing. It's a simple mistake, next time take it up with them. You're going to start an unnecessary witch hunt. why not? like a lot of people i decided to give mlg a chance and bought in to the ppv thing but people have a right to know about this kind of thing. its like arguing that copyright infringment cases shouldnt be on the news, people are interested when big corporations screw up. considering how vigilant mlg has tried to be about their own copyright this weekend through restreams, it just comes across as hypocritical for them to blindly take pictures they find and use them in order to improve a product they charge for. i dont think there was any malice intended, just someone being a bit silly, but its still interesting. | ||
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sVnteen
Germany2238 Posts
no srsly that is really really unprofessional by mlg even more disappointed with this event right now  | ||
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NeMeSiS3
Canada2972 Posts
Anywho that's my stance. | ||
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DeadBull
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EPT
hahahaha
