I don't know if it's necessarily fair to call out "I F*cking Love Science". The same could be said about Reddit/9gag/thousands of other Facebook groups/etc.
It's an Internet-wide problem, not just one FB group.
It's an Internet-wide problem, not just one FB group.
Lie is indeed "unfair" to him in some statistical sense, but I am absolutely not being "unfair" to him in a moral sense.
Or to put it another way, the reality of the Internet as you describe it is that a certain %age of copyright violations go unpurusued. It's a statistical model, just as it's a statistical model that a certain number of robberies are unsolved and a certain number of people are killed by lightening.
Is that unfair? It may seem so when you're being struck by lightening, but someone has to be struck by lightening.
Likewise, given enough copyright violations, someone is going to be called out. Today the blow falls on Elise.
Mine is, telling your friends a joke without bothering to establish who originally invented it.
Original authors of the jokes either don't earn any money with them or do it similar way that the "joke thief" does. Only they are not that popular as he is.
I think reposting is much less of an offence then one proffessional comediant using joke of another one without proper attribution.
Good point, though. Delivery of embedded content is often ignored.
Do you have a suggesting for finding each "owner"?
Such requirements would shut down all these sites (not that we'd have a huge loss by doing so, but I'd like to think that a social/technological solution would be possible.)
That's how copyright enforcers again make it worse for all creative people.
Reddit is morally different, since arguably you cannot hold them directly responsible for content generated by their users, they are strictly a conduit.
Similarly, we don't blame Facebook when their users post pirated content, we rightly blame the individual who pirated it in the first place.
You're right though, this isn't different than a curated stream of pirated content (e.g., many other Facebook groups), but as raganwald said, the fact that we can't catch them all doesn't mean it's wrong to catch one.