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submitted 3 days ago by BrikoX to c/legalnews

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Artists, merch sellers, and journalists making and posting Luigi media have become the targets of bogus DMCA claims.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Has anyone actually and legally been granted a copyright claim on Luigi?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If you draw a picture of him and then someone else posts it without your permission, then yes you'd be able to claim your copyright was violated. Copyright is something that automatically applies to any creative thing someone produces. You can't use someone's name/likeness to sell a product unless they've given you permission, but that's not a copyright claim.

These claims sound like abuse of the DMCA takedown system.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Yes, that is the normal way of doing things. But didn’t United file something to attempt to copyright Luigi?

My question is whether or not they had success with that ridiculous claim.

It’s also not normal to go for a terrorism charge when murder is far, far easier to prove. But here we are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Basically all we need is one person to draw a picture and clearly license it under a non-NC Creative Commons license like CC BY-SA. Then we're good.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

From my non-lawyer understanding, copyrights on a photo reside with the creator of the photo, however, the person who is in the photo would have some ownership of their likeness kind of like a trademark where you would have to argue for rights to the use of it.

So basically the only people who could really claim anything would be the owners of the security cam for that pic that everyone has latched onto.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

So high odds this is a healthcare CEO mad clicking/typing because they don’t like the public reaction.