If you shared copy written media on nostr and got zaps for it, could someone sue you for copyright infringement?
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Technically yes but it’s often not worth their time.
Will it stay that way if nostr becomes as commonplace with the other SM platforms tho? Right now it's a lil secret you gotta dig for.
My belief is the decentralized nature of it should keep it covered. IDK 🤷🏻♀️
Excellent question. Further, what I’ve seen is many on #Nostr are for #FOSS which will give 99% their control back. How quickly Nostr grows could help majority of humanity getting this. Which goes back to Human Rights and World Peace Treaty.
I think we’re good 😊 💜🫂
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Example: people have sold copies of various other people’s work online for years.
Sewing patterns etc. While they could be sued, the people doing it felt it was worth taking the risk. Others can judge the morality of it.
I don’t know. 🤷🏻♀️ if I were making the argument, I would say it goes back to the free and open access Internet act right. Interesting 🤔 I think this is the loophole 🤣🙏 in my jurisdiction at least.
Humanity has human rights. 🫂
Theoretically yes. Big pain in the ass though. Especially with anon accounts, who do you sue? The play would be to go after the aggregator level. Is Primal a target or Damus for facilitating an illegal marketplace? How hard/easy to go after them?
Another angle that would make it harder is if you do not explicitly charge a price. If you post it for free, and then subsequently a variety of folks zap you a variety of amounts are you really reselling it for profit?
I'd be curious what a legal pro would say as far as what constitutes selling, vs profiting from. Definitely the anonymity is a factor, though I could see a bored security agent lurking on someone long enough to bring chase to the client, the platform it came from, anything they could do. Governments don't take kindly to what they can't control it seems. I don't even know if they're capable with any of that but an interesting rabbit hole that I am sure is laced with assinign regulations.
If you really want to know the answer, try it at scale and find out. Stream a full Disney movie or something.