@erincandescent Well, @Bundesregierung inherited all liabilities and benefits of the #GDR as legal successor, so you should direct your questions to @[email protected] / #DPMA (German Patent & Trademarking Office) and #Licensing / #CollectingAgencies applying to the works.
#NotLegalAdvice and I'd recommend seeking consultation with a licensed & spechalized lawyer like @wbs_legal on that matter...
@libreleah well, it's not #PublicDomain in #Germany because one cannot #relinquish #Authorship and/or #Copyright!
Otherwise #Royalties #CollectingAgencies like #VGwort will demand royalty payments for it!
@denmanrooke same goes for #ValueRemoving #rentseekers like #CollectingAgencies that only payout 9,0909% of all their revenue to artists!
i.e. #GEMA...
@lily Yeah.
If I had a million I would've started a more fair #MusicStreaming Service / #Radio designed to circumvent those #CollectingAgencies by platforming #artists zthat license their #music on fairer terms like @creativecommons or are able to do direct deals.
@gimulnautti @khobochka The only thing that #RoyalitySchemes like that created are rich #CollectingAgencies that act as #ValueRemoving #Rentseekers (i.e. #GEMA only pas out 9,0909% of all the royalities collected and innan intransparent manner!) on every "Reproduction Device" (i.e. printers, burners, copiers, scanners) and "Blank (Recordable) Media" (i.e. USB drives, SD csrds, recordable BD-RWs) AND more criminalization.
Anything else is just not gonna work...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XN57BhyZwk
https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/113725769698521647
@tdr Maybe read the article again and stop wasting everyone elses time, because weaponizing #Copyright won't benefit the "#SlammAuthors" but only #Racketeering-Schemes like "#CollectingAgencies" and big #IP - hoarding Corporations who act as #Copyrightmafia.
In fact, you should be angry at #capitalism and the need to attain #money for survival, because without it we'd all be more innovative, collaborative and creative to begin with!
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Perhaps I can clarify, as I wrote the article. § 44b UrhG is the German transposition of Art. 4 DSM copyright directive, which I cover in the article: “Since the EU Copyright Directive of 2019, … where commercial uses are concerned, rightsholders who do not want their copyright-protected works to be scraped for data mining must opt-out in machine-readable form”, so although Germany had not adopted §44b yet, the article takes it into account.
@AnnaTLeigh @eff the nice part is that machines can neither generate #Copyright-able works nor violate #Copyright.
If #learning was infringement, we'd all be perpetual #DebtPeons to the #Contentmafia aka. #CollectingAgencies representing #Schoolbook #Publishers...
@senficon is right about it, even tho a lot of Stallmanists don't want him to...
https://felixreda.eu/2021/07/github-copilot-is-not-infringing-your-copyright/
@yassie_j That's intentional based off #ValueRemoving #Rentseeking by #CollectingAgencies that pay out as little as 9,0909% [#GEMA] of their revenue to creators...
#Spotify like all #Startups are #unsustainable in the sense of #GrowOrDie schemes...
The only thing any #LinkTax and #Paywalling does is drive people from "#Quality [#Mainsteam] #News Outlets" to questionable [tinfoilhatted] #FakeNews & #Propaganda #Media whist propping up some #ValueRemoving #Rentseekers in the form of #CollectingAgencies that also require more #Tracking and further #Enshittification!
@AndrewMurphie @manjusrii well, #LinkTax doesn't provide any value to the consumer, but only #RentSeeking for already big outlets.
Jist like small #artists don't benefit from #CollectingAgencies demanding royalties, but big record labels do.
https://mstdn.social/@kkarhan/110636771969370394
@manjusrii #BULLSHIT! #LinkTax only serves as #RentSeeking by big media corporations and doesn't improve #journalism at all! It's like with any commercially licensed content: If I - like #ALDI - don't want to pay €€€€ in music #licensing fees, I can jist chpose not to play any music at all or evidently only play music not covered by collection agencies. It's that simple! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEMA_(German_organization) Likewise #ESPN did block #ISPs in the U.S. that don't pay their #racketteering fees for accessing.
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