Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
by Nextgrid on Friday May 15, 2020 @12:24PM
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I disagree that they violated copyright. If they're using a screenshot or a short clip from a movie that is definitely fair use. On the other hand, what Giphy is doing is copying the entire meme.
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Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
by millimeterman on Sunday May 17, 2020 @05:34PM
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What? That's absolutely not guaranteed to be fair use. AFAIK there's no precedent for such things. And even if random people making memes is fair use, Giphy would still be violating the copyright of the original media by hosting nearly unedited clips for commercial reasons. The vast, vast, vast majority of memes are not transformative.