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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.
It’s also odd that they wouldn’t start with a simple takedown notice or Cease & Desist notice. Courts don’t tend to look kindly upon frivolous lawsuits when it’s clear that the filing party didn’t try to resolve things out of court first. Because it ties up the system when courts could be focused on bigger or more complicated issues. Judges don’t appreciate feeling like their time is being wasted.
Well it sounds like they took it down immediately so it was “resolved” but I guess that doesn’t undo the lost revenue.
From what I know, if they complied immediately, the plaintiff doesn’t really have a case
Its just an api… lol :(
Most people use the service for perfectly legitimate purposes. On the fringes, however, some users abuse the software to share pirate libraries publicly, a considerable thorn in the side for rightsholders.
I’ve been using it for over a decade and I don’t know single person that uses it for “perfectly legitimate purposes” (assuming they mean "not for pirated content, considering the next sentence). There’s no reason to use Plex as a front end for all other streaming services.
Yeah it doesn’t matter your experience. You need to accept everyone is innocent unless you can prove it. So… To bad
You need to accept everyone is innocent unless you can prove it. So… To bad
What? I’m not a lawyer out to get people, I’m just saying that the majority of their userbase is most likely playing pirated material.
And I’m saying you can’t prove that, so it doesn’t matter. It’s just a guess. A good one in my opinion, but nothing else.
It works great as a DVR for my OTA antenna.
They know that. They have to pretend they don’t know that.
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.
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.
Nice idea 😀
Pleade do it 😄
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
Mmmmmm… injesting
Gross.
