Re:Ask HN: Can one sue platforms like Reddit or Quora for pl...
by oliwarner on Saturday October 04, 2014 @10:32AM
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Ignore this plagiarism thing. It's legally irrelevant.
If the content if yours or you represent it or the owners, and it hasn't been licensed appropriately, and it's in an applicable applies jurisdiction, you could file a DMCA takedown notice to the site it is hosted on at their abuse handling contact address. If they ignore this, they lose safe harbour. If they challenge it, you sue them. If they take it down, that's done.
In addition to the DMCA, regardless of how that's handled you can also sue them for copyright infringement to recoup lost earnings. Who knows how far you'll get there.
If the content isn't yours (or represented by you) there are no legal actions you can legally take. You could fraudulently fill out a DMCA but that's going to get you sued. It's probably also a criminal action if done wilfully.
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If however, you're just a Quora user, it's probably against the terms and conditions to copy content wholesale (especially if it's incompatible with their submission license)... You could report the post directly to them so that they can deal with it internally before anything happens externally.
If the content if yours or you represent it or the owners, and it hasn't been licensed appropriately, and it's in an applicable applies jurisdiction, you could file a DMCA takedown notice to the site it is hosted on at their abuse handling contact address. If they ignore this, they lose safe harbour. If they challenge it, you sue them. If they take it down, that's done.
In addition to the DMCA, regardless of how that's handled you can also sue them for copyright infringement to recoup lost earnings. Who knows how far you'll get there.
If the content isn't yours (or represented by you) there are no legal actions you can legally take. You could fraudulently fill out a DMCA but that's going to get you sued. It's probably also a criminal action if done wilfully.
---
If however, you're just a Quora user, it's probably against the terms and conditions to copy content wholesale (especially if it's incompatible with their submission license)... You could report the post directly to them so that they can deal with it internally before anything happens externally.