🚩 Report: Copyright infringement

#9
by justheretoreport - opened

This dataset was unlawfully scraped from the social media platform, Cara. The site specifically states in its TOS that scraping content from it is prohibited. The scraping was done without ANY of the artists’ consent.

https://smallbusiness.chron.com/urls-copyrighted-62319.html

Copyright and URLs

URLs are not protected by copyright. This allows others to reference or link to a website address without needing to get permission from the site's creator. Legal disputes over domain names and URLs are not resolved under copyright law but instead by authorities such as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

That does NOT mean the image accessed through the URL is free to copy, reproduce, or use in this dataset. You are completely contradicting your statement as you are pretending the image doesn't exist and you only copied the url. The image AT the url is completely copyrightable, which is what you are using. As well as the link you copied is not even a valid source of information. I can tell you love your AI because you don't even know how to use proper sources.

That does NOT mean the image accessed through the URL is free to copy, reproduce, or use in this dataset. You are completely contradicting your statement as you are pretending the image doesn't exist and you only copied the url. The image AT the url is completely copyrightable, which is what you are using. As well as the link you copied is not even a valid source of information. I can tell you love your AI because you don't even know how to use proper sources.

https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ66.pdf

Copyrightable Content on a Website

To register a website or website content [with the US Copyright Office, for the purpose of filing infringement notices], you must identify the copyrightable authorship you will submit for registration. Copyrightable authorship is original expression contributed by an author that contains at least a minimum amount of creativity.

As with any other work, the Office will refuse registration for any website or website content that does not constitute copyrightable subject matter or any content that lacks sufficient authorship.
Common examples of uncopyrightable material particular to websites include [...] domain names or URLs

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