oh. right, thanks

NOT* not count as a meme

apologies, i realized this might not count as a meme but it made me laugh when i saw it

hey, i know you from the ‘hey, i know this one’ meme

will be better once i get my package

just one?

yup

this is good information. fortunately i do not have arthritis, which means unfortunately i should actually just move around more

but there’s no peanut butter in this image

my expert decoding skills tell me the message is “what are you doing toblerone”

it’s also what i do when i run my programs over and over again hoping the bugs fix themselves

ain’t that the truth. mind posting this in !animemes@lemmy.ml as well?

the mug will go right next to my 23 other mugs, all equally loved

nope, but i found the person who made the pixel art on twitter https://twitter.com/yolie_draws/status/1557126861947162631

and the account that made the original version of the meme on instagram, but i’m not sure if the post itself was deleted https://instagram.com/nocturnaltrashposts

looks like a small cylinder (maybe 5.1 in length, -4.5in girth) to me

The US copyright office says this on their website

Uploading or downloading works protected by copyright without the authority of the copyright owner is an infringement of the copyright owner’s exclusive rights of reproduction and/or distribution.

If the company downloaded books without buying them to train their AI, that’s copyright infringement

US

UK

EU

Australia cuz why the hell not

The uploader is the infringing party, not the downloader.

an exclusive right of the copyright holder is the right to duplicate their work. downloading IS illegal because you’re creating an unauthorized duplicate of the work on your machine. your duplicate is distinct from the duplicate that someone else had created and uploaded. it’s just very hard to get caught downloading, and it’s not very cost effective for companies to pursue since they would only stop one person. that’s why most companies like the RIAA targeted torrents for their lawsuits, because they could easily see the ip addresses (which is why you should always use a vpn when torrenting) and because they could shut down uploaders. but downloading itself is still very illegal

My work does not violate copyright, unless I use a substantial part of the other works.

like I said, the AI is not a violation (probably, unless the courts later disagree), it’s proof that unauthorized duplication of copyrighted works has occurred, and that is illegal