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kefirr2012-12-03 11:35:48
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kefirr, 2012-12-03 11:35:48

Copyright and VKontakte: do the newfangled "statements" about content protection make sense?

Some time ago I noticed a fashion to post the following text on the pages of a social network:

In response to the new policy of VKontakte, I hereby declare that all my personal data, illustrations, drawings, articles, comics, pictures, photographs, videos and so on are subject to my copyright (under the Berne Convention).

For commercial use of all the above-mentioned copyright objects, my written permission is required in each case!

VKontakte is now a public company. That is why all users of this social network are recommended to place such a “privacy notice” on their pages, otherwise (if the notice is not published on the page at least once), you automatically allow any use of data from your page, your photos and information published in messages on the wall of your page.

Everyone who reads this text can copy it to their wall on VKontakte. After that, you will be protected by copyright laws. By this communique, I notify VKontakte that the disclosure, copying, distribution of my personal information or any other illegal actions in relation to my profile on the social network is strictly prohibited. The aforementioned prohibitions also apply to employees, students, agents, or any other personnel in one way or another controlled by VKontakte. The information posted in this account is confidential. Violating my privacy is against the law (UCC 1 1-308-308 1-103 and the Rome Statute)


The opinion of copyright experts is interesting: does this text make sense, or is it another obscurantism?
1) Aren't my photos automatically subject to copyright in and of themselves? ( Wiki: copyright objects )
2) There are rules vk.com/terms , where the same thing seems to be said: clause 6.1.1
All objects posted on the Site, including design elements, text, graphics, illustrations, videos, scripts, programs, music, sounds and other objects and their collections (hereinafter referred to as the Content), are subject to the exclusive rights of the Administration, Users of the Site and other copyright holders, all rights to these objects are reserved.

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Maxim Shishkin, 2012-12-03
@kefirr

In response to the new policy of VKontakte, I hereby declare that all my personal data, illustrations, drawings, articles, comics, pictures, photographs, videos and so on are subject to my copyright (under the Berne Convention).
All MY (created by me) and without this phrase are subject to copyright.
For commercial use of all the above-mentioned copyright objects, my written permission is required in each case!
Reasonable, but back to point 1 about "MY". And again, the phrase is meaningless - it's just a statement of the law.
VKontakte is now a public company. That is why all users of this social network are recommended to place such a “privacy notice” on their pages, otherwise (if the notice is not published on the page at least once), you automatically allow any use of data from your page, your photos and information published in messages on the wall of your page.
Complete nonsense. The law protects the rights of authors a priori, without any placement of bad texts.
The next paragraph is also generated by an inflamed brain.
And a little more realities - 99% of pictures, images, videos, etc., are not any object of copyright of this user, since he did not create them, but copy-pasted from somewhere, which, on the contrary, is a violation of copyright.

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Alex42rus, 2012-12-03
@Alex42rus

tags speak for themselves

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Alexander Gorsky, 2012-12-04
@alcanoid

It should be noted that the text distributed by VKontakte users is a banal tracing paper from the text from Facebook, in which the name of the site was simply changed without bothering to comprehend the content. So, in particular, VKontakte LLC is not a public company at all, which follows directly from the legal form used. In addition, in relations with a Russian company, it is a little naive to refer to the purely American UCC and the Rome Statute that has not been ratified by Russia. With the latter, in general, everything is interesting: in this document we are talking about the establishment of the International Criminal Court, whose competence is limited to genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. How the use of someone else's records can violate its provisions - is decidedly incomprehensible!

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Michael, 2012-12-03
@ukku

I'll just leave it

A copyright notice roams around Facebook, and users attach fictitious legal gimmicks to their status updates in a naïve attempt to deprive the social network of the rights to own and commercially use their content. Facebook promptly checked the facts and issued a statement rebutting the notice.

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AxisPod, 2012-12-03
@AxisPod

What country do you live in? The phrase "according to the Berne Convention" should already indicate that this does not have any legal effect.

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lemon_spb, 2013-02-10
@limon_spb

Although late, but let it lie here, I found it by accident:
www.radiobardak.com/facebook-fake-privacy-update/

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