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Post by kathryn on Jun 11, 2018 16:05:31 GMT
I thought that was a misunderstanding of the T&Cs? People were reading "if you post a photo on [Social Network], you give [Social Network] the right to use the photo" and hearing "too bad, sucker, [Social Network] owns your photo now!" when what it actually meant was "although you are choosing to post it on [Social Network], you still need to agree that [Social Network] is allowed to show it if you want it to be visible". It would have depended on the precise wording and how it would have been interpreted in various legal jurisdictions. It's quite possible that poorly-worded T&Cs would have had unintended consequences - especially as a lot of the existing copyright laws, pre-DMCA, were just not drafted with digital reproduction in mind. Standard practice has changed everywhere - we used to have authors sign over copyright to us, now they grant us an exclusive license to publish. There's no practical difference between the two but it makes people feel better.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2018 16:13:42 GMT
The 'what are you going to do' approach is very common, I agree. In a previous job, I worked with a reasonably high profile researcher and got a call from a tabloid late on Friday afternoon that on Saturday they would be publishing a story about something his son had posted on Facebook. The paper was totally out of line and they knew it but it was too late for us to do anything before they published. By Sunday they had had their knuckles wrapped by the regulator and been told to take the story off their website, but obviously they didn't care because they got their story in the paper. Highly distressing for the family, par for the course for them. There's really bugger all you can do against the media, unfortunately - whatever you do or say, they have the power and the broadcast ability. My advice to the researcher was to say absolutely nothing to the journalist on Friday because once you give them your words they can do anything with them - they own the narrative.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2018 17:29:41 GMT
Someone I know goes to as many performances of whatever touring musical she's into at the moment as she can, and stage doors every time, getting a photo of her with whatever actor it is she's into. She posts on instagram with repeated almost identical photos of herself with the poor bloke, tagging him in every time. Recently she's been following a touring musical and has seen it say 4 times a week almost every week, and has posted at least 20 photos of her with the same poor bloke on at least 20 separate occasions. The other day she posted about taking him presents. The bloke is looking more and more desperate in every progressing photo, smiling in a *please rescue me now* kind of plea. I imagine that this is nothing on the scale of some of the obsessions mentioned in this thread, but I still find it utterly mind boggling. I feel that I may know who this is, I won’t say her name just to be safe but did she happen to make accounts for multiple Wicked tour cast members?
I don't think so, not that I know of. I don't think I've ever heard her mention Wicked.
I agree though that she's harmless, I've never heard her being horrid to anyone, quite the contrary. I just don't understand the mentality in the slightest.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jun 11, 2018 18:03:35 GMT
Social Media 101.
Restrict your activity only to those people you wish to observe the inner machinations of your (probaby rather dreary) life.
If you leave your Facebook profile open to everyone and their auntie I have no sympathy if some third party uses your stuff.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jun 11, 2018 18:22:55 GMT
Cumberbitches are among the very very very worst people on this planet. Popbitch ran a story a couple of years back about the Cumberbitches and their attempts to prove Mrs C was cheating on him - the problem being that they were following round a totally different woman. Someone who just happens to be the spit of Mrs C but who has no link at all to either of them - and somewhere the Bitches were noting all of this. For example - Wednesday, dinner and snogging in restaurant. Friday, spent the night at Mr X house. Utter madness. I know the bloke who got accused of being Sophie Cumberbatch's secret boyfriend (some crazy fan took photos of him and his wife, who does look a bit like Mrs C, at the National Theatre, and spun it into a whole "Sophie on a secret date with her lover at her husband's former workplace"). He went through two years of having his social media accounts hacked and falsely reported as fake, and work and phone records stalked. Total nutters.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2018 20:07:15 GMT
People's reactions to a Celeb's tweets or actions can often be quoted by news organizations.
It's ironic that Little England Daily Mail's online section is very celeb gossip based and lots of comments about people looking tonned etc or showing a bit of flesh. It is always a fun read but very different from their printed version.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jun 11, 2018 20:29:05 GMT
The press are watching us here. We’ve been quoted many times. I know people like to think this is some little niche forum but seriously... you have no idea how many page hits we get.
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Post by crowblack on Jun 11, 2018 20:33:37 GMT
Regarding my previous comment, I've just seen on Twitter someone pointing out that when the Mail (or, I presume, any other paper) use your Tweets without asking, you can change your Twitter name to 'F- the Daily Mail' and, if they're embedded, that's how it'll appear on their website.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2018 7:49:28 GMT
The press are watching us here. We’ve been quoted many times. I know people like to think this is some little niche forum but seriously... you have no idea how many page hits we get. Ye Gods! No wonder Alexzzzzandra Burke has been trolling me lately. It all becomes clear.
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Post by kathryn on Jun 12, 2018 8:35:43 GMT
I know the bloke who got accused of being Sophie Cumberbatch's secret boyfriend (some crazy fan took photos of him and his wife, who does look a bit like Mrs C, at the National Theatre, and spun it into a whole "Sophie on a secret date with her lover at her husband's former workplace"). He went through two years of having his social media accounts hacked and falsely reported as fake, and work and phone records stalked. Total nutters. I didn't know they'd gone that far!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2018 12:38:08 GMT
I know the bloke who got accused of being Sophie Cumberbatch's secret boyfriend (some crazy fan took photos of him and his wife, who does look a bit like Mrs C, at the National Theatre, and spun it into a whole "Sophie on a secret date with her lover at her husband's former workplace"). He went through two years of having his social media accounts hacked and falsely reported as fake, and work and phone records stalked. Total nutters. I didn't know they'd gone that far! Christ alive I’m glad I checked out of following that fan group long before that. They are that scary that I don’t dare even tweet an opinion on his work anymore
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2018 14:22:03 GMT
Popbitch ran a story a couple of years back about the Cumberbitches and their attempts to prove Mrs C was cheating on him - the problem being that they were following round a totally different woman. Someone who just happens to be the spit of Mrs C but who has no link at all to either of them - and somewhere the Bitches were noting all of this. For example - Wednesday, dinner and snogging in restaurant. Friday, spent the night at Mr X house. Utter madness. I know the bloke who got accused of being Sophie Cumberbatch's secret boyfriend (some crazy fan took photos of him and his wife, who does look a bit like Mrs C, at the National Theatre, and spun it into a whole "Sophie on a secret date with her lover at her husband's former workplace"). He went through two years of having his social media accounts hacked and falsely reported as fake, and work and phone records stalked. Total nutters. I hope those responsible were prosecuted or put in prison. Or perhaps hanged. We're still allowed to hang people nowadays aren't we?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2018 15:51:25 GMT
I didn't know they'd gone that far! Christ alive I’m glad I checked out of following that fan group long before that. They are that scary that I don’t dare even tweet an opinion on his work anymore Good point there was already apparently graffiti written about you in a theatre toilet according to Ryan!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2018 16:14:15 GMT
Does it really count when said graffiti is clearly in Ryan's own handwriting though?
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Post by waybeyondblue on Jun 12, 2018 18:05:27 GMT
Does it really count when said graffiti is clearly in Ryan's own handwriting though? I understand it was where his hand had just been that caused the public health inspection and subsequent court case. That law hadn’t been used since Cromwell and never for two simultaneous offences.
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