I recently stumbled across an article discussing an artist who sued twitter over copyright issues. The artist, Christopher Boffoli, sued twitter because the “company refused to take down copies of his artwork uploaded to Twitter by its users”. Buffoli had contacted twitter regarding the issue, and they simply ignored his requests and did not do anything about it. I think that this shows how many large companies abuse the rights of authors for their own personal gain. Twitter obviously did not care about the author’s request, and simply ignored it thinking that it would not escalate any further and that they could get away with not doing the extra work of taking it down. However, Buffoli did end up winning the case. I think based on our readings that Goldstein would applaud Boffoli for not allowing twitter to do what they wish with his work.
I would also agree with Goldstein on this issue. Twitter, being a fairly large business today, probably thought they were powerful enough to simply ignore Boffoli. His court vase victory is also a victory for independent artists everywhere. While fair use and a generally free internet should be supported, people still cannot be robbed of their original work. Hopefully this case sets a precedent for future incidents.
I think the main problem with copyright laws are people like this guy who aren’t taking it in context. Their work isn’t being stolen if it’s being posted on twitter. I think the artists and such need to stop trying to sue people over little things like this. That’s the problem more than the actual laws.
This is the main issue with copyright today. Its all in the hands of the big companies and has lost the initial intention of authorship
I believe that as long as an artist has ownership of his own work, and if wishes to assert his authority regarding it, he should be respected. I don’t see anything about work being stolen, aside from the evidence that work that he posted was taken and put onto twitter. The fact that he was ignored multiple times is the issue, because it disrespects and disregards ownership and copyright.
I think this shows how big companies have way to much power and maybe this is a good example of why we should re-examine our copyright laws.
Large companies think they can get away with abusing the little guy. However, copyright law allows for the little guy to take a stand, if they’re persistent enough. I think there was a movie on that, with the guy who created the windshield wiper that Ford took credit for.