sowhatifiliveinkyushu:

arruffata:

lifeinjapantodayandalways:

After asking Tumblr and the DMCA to please consider contacting your users to take down ‘copyright infringed’ material (and giving the users a time limit to do so) before issuing a ‘warning’ (i.e. give users a chance to delete and not what is the current Tumblr policy of sending a warning after the fact which helps no one), yesterday I received an e-mail from Tumblr staff stating that you should ‘only post material that you have had direct permission to do so, otherwise do not post’.

Okay, now here is a question to all the blogs of Tumblr: do you ask for permission to post (i.e. photos, images, gifs, etc.) stuff (that is not yours) on your blog?

I would wager that 99.9% of users do not comply with these regulations (mainly because how and who do we contact to post stuff on line - it is impossible) and therefore we are ALL in breach of this ludicrous Tumblr ‘copyright infringement’ policy.

That is why I am asking all of you to PLEASE reblog this message so we can send a clear message to Tumblr management and the DMCA to amend their ‘copyright infringement’ policy to a more helpful one (see below):

If a user posts something that infringes the copyright of an artist and that said artist would like it removed Tumblr will contact the user and give them three working days to take down the copyright infringed post. If the user complies then no further action will be taken; but if the user does not comply then Tumblr will take down the post and issue a WARNING to that user and explain to them about being in breach of copyright.

By doing this Tumblr will be helping its users and helping those who want to keep their material ‘copyright protected’. It will also be helping their sponsors and advertisers because if we are ALL in breach of the current Tumblr copyright rules then no one will be on here much longer and Tumblr will crash and burn due to no revenue (i.e. no customer base).

Tumblr, all I am asking for is some common sense and communication. Is this too much to ask for?

Va sempre peggio, e io sono molto dispiaciuta per questo. Era meglio il sano e buon sesso che vedevo in dash, alle patetiche frasi di gente frustrata, di odio e di razzismo. La dash è diventata un continuo leggere di esperti, di ogni materia, che poi, se siete così bravi, che ci fate qui ? date il vostro contributo nel settore dove siete specializzati, invece di far i saputelli qui. 

Condivido ogni parola di questo post, e non perchè è anche uno dei miei preferiti, ma proprio perchè da quando hanno dato la censura, ogni giorno questa piattaforma peggiora, e all’interno del suo staff comincio a credere ci sia molta gente incompetente. Ecco saputelli, perchè non vi fate assumere voi ?!!!!

I concur with @arruffata above - Tumblr is run by incompetent people. They do not understand copyright law nor do they understand international law (because being an American company punishing someone in Japan is an infringement of civil liberty for that individual and Tumblr can be taken to court).