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- technology@lemmy.world
Title is somewhat misleading. It’s not for anything video-related. It’s for using a (probably free) photo of actress Cuca Escribano without permission.
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The same photo is still in use by The Movie DB, one of Plex’s data suppliers.
So someone submitted a copyrighted image to a 3rd-party user-created database and Plex ingested the image.
Seems like the claimant has a legitimate case but it’s strange that they didn’t sue the people actually providing the image. Not enough money in it, probably.
Its just an api… lol :(
Wow, how does any of this make sense? Plex doesn’t host the image… seems like another case of corporate execs having no fucking clue about anything. 5/7 gg
I thought the whole point of these things is to sue them so you can get it front of a judge who might say it is in fact legally Plex’s responsibility, so the whole thing becomes Plex’s legal responsibility, and they can either crack down massively internally or get sued into oblivion by others, and they didn’t have to go through the whole big rigamarole of suing each individual person.
Lmao, did they start with a C&D or just go straight to court?
It was ingested automatically from a public source; if you didn’t even bother to inform them of the infringement, the case should be thrown out for that alone. There’s no intent here, it’s just incidental.
What a waste of time, energy, and money, for all involved…
They probably started with uploading the file themselves lol
Wasting the time, energy, and money of Plex is the goal though. Do it enough times and the business folds.
Whether they win the case or not, Plex should replace the photo with one poorly drawn in MS Paint as an FU to the photographer.
Most people use the service for perfectly legitimate purposes.
But also, the copyright infringement is for using a picture of an actress on their website; the photographer who took the photo usually licenses it for third party use, and Plex didn’t have permission to use it.
But also, the copyright infringement is for injesting automatically from a third party a picture of an actress on their website
FTFY
