FYI, the consequences of IP theft are about to get much worse:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/disastrous-ip-legislation-back-%E2%80%93-and-it%E2%80%99s-worse-ever
On 10/27/2011 2:42 PM, Mark Murphy wrote:
Please go talk to qualified legal counsel. This is a list for
developing applications with the Android SDK, not for discussing the
nuances of copyright law.
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Simon Platten
<simonaplat...@googlemail.com> wrote:
For starters a lot of the applications I offer on the market are free, the
ones that I do charge for are so low cost, and an attempt to recover the
development costs of the applications. I certainly haven't made £100's out
of any applications.
I sourced the images I used from the web and in most cases edited the files
to better fit the devices. What is the difference between me re-displaying
the images sourced from public domain sites to Google displaying the images
in the 'Images' section of its online search?
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Christopher Van Kirk
<christopher.vank...@gmail.com> wrote:
I believe that the answer is that they do not do any verification.
What happens is that the original author of the copyrighted content
complains to them, then as part of the process of determining who is right,
they suspend your account.
This is all codified in the DMCA, which unfortunately is heavily biased in
favor of content producers at the expense of users and fair use. It's the
law, though, in the U.S. at least, so you have to abide by it.
On 10/27/2011 7:06 AM, Ricardo Amaral wrote:
This got me thinking about my own app and how Google verifies these
things. Depending on the material, it can be very easy for them to know if
the material is copyrighted and if the developer in question have a license
to use it. In my case, I don't think it's that easy.
I'm developing an app which will uses a couple of icon sets and I'm
developing a free and paid app. The free app will only be using icons which
specifically have a license that allow me to do so in a commercial app (the
same set of icons will be in both versions). In the paid app, I'll be
removing any icon set for which I don't have a license to use. But how does
Google now?
I'm thinking about a specific icon set which is free to download and free
to use under certain circumstances, one of them is not a paid app. But I
could have bought a license to use it. Will they just ignore a situation
like this (even if I was in violation of the copyrighted material), they
really dig into the matter or they just cancel the account? I mean, the only
way for them to know for sure (I repeat, on this specific situation) is to
contact me and ask me for some kind of proof that I really have bought a
license for those icons, or contact the icon author and ask if a guy with my
developer account name has ever ought a license for them. Do they really do
that?
Not that I'm trying to find how their process works to circumvent it, I
just don't want to get my account suspended because they didn't take the
time to really find out if I was in violation of copyrighted material or
not. I'm really trying to avoid using stuff that I don't have a license for.
I believe in giving credit where credit is due and if I want to use
copyrighted material for which I need to pay first, I will, otherwise I
won't use it.
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