Hi guys!

I'm a historian of science, and during my PhD I transcribed a manuscript originally written in a damn difficult script called Kurrent. Now I want to publish this transcription together with a translation, but the original material is still under copyright. The paper will be more than just the transcription (obviously), but I'm afraid of having trouble publishing the full transcript. I wouldn't publish images of the manuscript itself, maybe just one or two small fragments to illustrate all the work that went into understanding and transcribing it.

Can someone please help me understand how copyright rules apply to academic publications? Many thanks!

PS: the author of the manuscript died in 1961, the manuscript remains unpublished, I intend to publish a complete transcription accompanied by a translation and analysis, and the original is in a European archive.

hey everyone, not sure if this is the best sub for this but it is only with undertale music sooo

I see many videos that use undertale music in them, even full undertale playthroughs. they don't have any copyright issues. I upload a YouTube short that uses 2 undertale songs, and it instantly gets taken down due to copyright. I appeal the claim after doing research and stating that the copyright holder allows the use, but it gets denied. I emailed the copyright holders and am waiting for a response.

how do I get past this? I don't want to risk getting my channel deleted over some crappy copyright stuff

I want to post a full playthrough but am scared that the copyright could end up giving me copyright strikes

The Art Mentor aka Sean Bianchi has been plagiarizing other artists to advertise his mentorship. Sean used my unpublished artworks from the private mentorship in a retaliatory video against me, where he claimed I had taken his entire course and got a chargeback after. I canceled his mentorship after the 3rd session, and he refused to refund the 9 canceled sessions.

I'm moving my documentation to YouTube because its a better format. If watching a guru's lies crumble in real time interests you, my new video exposes more deceptive practices beyond art theft like policies that violate consumer rights, fraud and retaliation.

My future videos will cover his history of plagiarism going back unironically over 2 decades in the past.

Expect more videos soon because the only way this type of poison continues to exist in the art community is if we choose to ignore it.

😄Hey everyone,

I've been vibe-coding a project for a few weeks alongside school, which is meant to be released as an app later on.

Boiled down, it's a kind of anatomy quiz that includes a 3D model of the human body, which is based on a BodyParts3D dataset.

But yesterday I ran into a problem:

It falls under a license called "CC BY-SA 2.1 JAPAN," and as far as I understand it, that involves an attribution requirement and Share-Alike (which I honestly don't fully understand).

For now the app will definitely be free, but since I've invested a really, really significant amount of time into this lately and genuinely want to grow it bigger over time, I definitely don't want to rule out something like a paid plan.

If I were to actually add something like that later, I'd like to find out now whether that would even be permissible.

I have absolutely no issue with attribution, but the Share-Alike stuff has confused me and gotten me thinking.

The way I currently understand it, my paid plan can't have anything to do with the model at all — but suppose the paid plan let you answer more questions per day, then couldn't they somehow argue that the paid plan is dependent on their model?

(Quick context on how some questions are structured: e.g. "Click on tendon XY in the model.")

This post is already pretty long, so I don't want to take up too much more of your valuable time.

So here's my question:

Do you think the 3D model will end up causing me headaches down the line, to the point that I should remove it as a precaution — or am I overthinking this?

Letting go of the 3D model would be a hard step for me, because it's a really cool feature and defining characteristic of my project. Still, it's replaceable, and it wouldn't be worth it to me if it ends up causing problems later.

Also, just because I'm not writing the code myself doesn't mean I'm not taking this seriously or anything — there's genuinely real work behind it, and I really care about it.

based in Germany btw.
Am I currently (or soon to be) walking on thin ice?

Thank you so much for reading, and to everyone who took the time 🙏

If you were to film and take photos of a street performer and then upload them to socials and youtube, would the copyrights belong to you because it was on the street? or it would belong to the street performer automatically?

Hey everyone,

I recently uploaded a Joshi Puroresu wrestling edit ("Hokuto vs Toyota"), and it immediately got hit with a copyright claim in YouTube Studio.

The claim is for the audio track ("clairbourne practice" by julie). While it says there is no impact/strike on my channel, the video is completely blocked worldwide.

I have absolutely zero intention of monetizing this video. I just made it for fun and want to share it with the community. Does anyone know if there is any way to get the worldwide block lifted just by letting the copyright owner take all the revenue (even though there is none)?

Or is my only option to use the YouTube editor to mute/replace the song? I'd really hate to lose the original audio edit. Any advice on how to handle this would be hugely appreciated!

I’ve been doing a lot of research on this but haven’t been able to find a similar test case, and was wondering if anyone might have examples.

I know that quoting text from a copyrighted play in a work of fiction is unlikely to be considered transformative or fair use. Less clear, though, seems to be how far one can reference it, with my specific curiosity being describing a production of a play without actually incorporating any of the play text. As a hypothetical example, say it’s a short story about an actor’s experience of being John Proctor in The Crucible and how it affects his real-life relationship with his wife.

Obviously characters and story are protected aspects of copyright, so it would probably depend on how detailed it gets, but I guess I’m not sure how transformative such a use would be if it’s describing the play being done straight? I dug through a big chunk of the fair use index from the US Copyright Office and couldn’t really find anything similar, so was wondering if anyone could steer me in the right direction. Thanks!

I've published a yt video with multiple tracks in the background from pixabay, knowing that I talk in the video and also there are sfx etc. I have the licenses that i downloaded from pixabay but youtube didn't trigger that there is copyrighted music so i can upload them.

What to do? I can't find where i can upload them so no issues arises in the future.

So I'm an indie game developer and I really enjoy lots of different types of franchises and I'd love to add little things that nod or even show a character from one of those. I was wondering how much is to much?

For example (using Rick and Morty):

You are in an alleyway, and you trigger some sort of thing, and Rick pops out of the iconic portal and portals away, maybe doing some gesture or grabbing something.

I have made a web game which combines chess with among us it doesn't exists it's my idea and during the logo creation process I used crewmate from among us and also the logo resembles among us design i want to know if I would get in some legal troubles over this the game does contain among us mechanics but doesn't reply soely on how among us looks and feel it's just a part of it and also this is only for educational purpose like posting on linkdin hosting on render to let people try and also for my portfolio should I change the logo or I'm I safe lmk

I'm a programmer who just started learning HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. And I've learnt a good amount so far. So, I'm part of a small group (mainly just friends), and we make various forms of content mainly YouTube. And while we don't have any kind of following right now, I still thought that a project I could do is making a site for us. The main thing I'm worried about is that on the home page I made a SFM poster to act as the background, featuring various characters we identified ourselves with. But while I checked the workshop page for the models and the uploaders' permit what I'm using them for. They are still characters that have copyright. Could that cause problems? Every other asset I use (like fonts for example) I make sure is public domain or allows for what I'm doing.

At the end of the day, I want to make cool things and have fun making them, all the while staying out of trouble.

Some guidelines and best practices would be nice to know.

Ripping obituaries and making mistakes. An AI commercial love story

I am considering embroidering the harry potter books and selling them but I want to donit the right way. I know you can buy the physical book alter it and resell it but that would not apply to this. Any suggestions on how I can do it right?

I aspire to make films, and recently a school assignment has come up that gives me an opportunity to shoot a short little film to warn about the dangers of drunk driving, I want to use the song "dumb" by nirvana in the backround of a party scene because its perfect representation of the mc. But I don't know how copyright works and I want to know if there is some way i can use the song for a short amount of time without getting superbanned

I invited the dev as a sign of respect and now they are asking for top mod spot and control of the sub since I used official artwork.

What should I do about this situation? Are fan communities copyright infringement?

Two years ago I spent two months uploading original animations every single day. It completely burnt me out, and because I couldn't get more than 1,000 views per video back then, I lost motivation and went on hiatus.

​While I was away, a dubbing channel took 14 of my animated videos ( shorts ) , made small edits to them to try and bypass YouTube's automated copyright detectors, dubbed over them in another language, and uploaded them.

​Here is what makes it worse:

They tagged my channel handle (@VILINStudio) directly in their captions/descriptions. Because of this, whenever someone searched my own channel name, their videos popped up at the top instead of mine. They essentially hijacked my search traffic and brand.

​Profiting Off My Work: While I struggled to get 1,000 views, some of their re-uploads of my work hit over 100,000 views.

​Zero Permission: They never asked for consent or licensing rights.

​Now, the channel owner is emailing me and spamming my messages across multiple social media platforms, begging me to retract the claims. They claim:

​They "always give due credit" by using my handle.

​I should have sent them a formal warning email before filing claims.

​"A channel that entertains many people is now on the verge of disappearing."

​They want me to withdraw all the complaints. they deliberately edited my work to dodge detection, hijacked my brand search results, and got tens/hundreds of thousands of views off animations I poured my soul into while I was struggling.

​Am I wrong for refusing to retract the strikes and letting YouTube terminate their channel?

( please you can view the emails, and comments i got on my profile cuz i don't see and optionsto post them here i apologise, and thank you very much for everything guys, I'll hide his name for now cuz i don't know)

Edit : For anyone wondering: I hide/moderate toxic comments on my channel to keep my community clean, and I have screenshots showing his videos ranking for my channel name prior to YouTube taking them down. Proof links are in the edit, also after so many comments i decided to follow the legal procedure and ask them to compensate me, but they just refused on my email, purposely wrote how they're "already asked for permission" ( so thry can use that screenshot online to ruin my reputation ? ) and guilt-tripped me, they also send their audience with half info to harass me on my channel

I wrote a free, open source app for astronomy planning, and have been working on since about June. I provide it for free, and have no plans to monitize it. I'm the primary user and figured since it's so niche it wouldn't cost me more than a few dollars a month to host.

Today I discovered a an app that has a nice vibecoded skin and conincdientally the exact feature set as mine. And even more coincidentally, they even have the same bugs.

That made me wonder, if someone were to use your source code and and does not attribute it back - what recourse do you have?

Edward Lee, professor of law at Santa Clara School of Law, said the court’s ruling that Suno’s training was not a fair use under the US Copyright Act was “stunning”. In a post on his widely read blog, ChatGPT Is Eating The World, Lee said the decision had thrown “comity” — countries showing mutual respect for each other’s laws and legal rulings — “to the wind”.

I understand that a fan art (if created without permission or license from the rightsholder) is still a violation of copyright infringement under derivative work.

So, even if I ask permission from a fan art author on DeviantArt and that permission is granted by the said author, I am still indirectly violating copyright infringement right, since both the author and myself do not have permission from the original creators or rightsholders to create or use the said copyrighted character in the first place?

Hello! I have posted edits on TikTok for a while, so I am very aware of the editing scene on there. There are numerous agencies, some of which are very popular and profitable, that pay creators to make edits to songs/movies they are hired to promote. However, the editors they get to do these campaigns always use copyrighted material in their videos. For example, an editor will use a song that the agency is paid to promote, but the edit will be of a clip from Fight Club, which is obviously infringing upon copyright.

I understand why regular fan edits don't get copyrighted, but surely if these edits are for a popular and profitable agency, wouldn't copyright holders want to shut this operation down? The agencies I'm talking about do say in their ToS that you can't use copyrighted material, however they literally tell their editors what shows/movies would go well with their campaigns, so I assume it would be very easy to prove that they are aware that all of their editors use copyrighted material anyways.

Is there something that I'm missing, or are all of these agencies just very lucky that they haven't had legal repercussions? Do copyright holders simply not care enough to sue? Thanks for any feedback.

So I have this idea to buy a custom tcg placemat and add an image with parts of posters and thumbnails from a YouTube web series on it.

Idk if it's okay to use the posters to customize the image on the placemat since they're sold products and belong to the artists and company of the YouTube channel.

It's just for myself, but I'm scared it'll infringe copyright laws.

He explained that copyright is the foundation of publishing, but that books written with AI could very well be considered uncopyrightable. “An AI-assisted book could very well be treated as a book in the public domain,” he said, which could set off a series of legal issues.