Open Source = Copyright Infringement

FOSS community consists of zero-talent people, excelling at imitation and stealing.

https://github.com/saniv/free-game-art/blob/master/foss-copyright-infringement-records.md

Teh lulz! Legit buyers are being robbed by Google!
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/30/871207
"If you ever post your projects on Youtube for advertising income, be aware that The Hollywood Edge is now digitally fingerprinting their sound effects. What does this mean?
Digital Fingerprinting is a way of identifying your content, for instance, if you upload images or music that doesn't belong to you, various companies can identify that music or image and claim the advertising income away from you. And if you are lifting music or images, this is a way that the legitimate owner can find and claim that which was taken from them.
It has gotten out of control. This is the latest chapter. I found 2 of my videos were being claimed on behalf of Hollywood Edge by AdRev because I used a sound effect! A sound effect which I thought I had the use of when I bought the library package back in 1999. After all, that is why you buy a sound effects library right? Well I guess if you buy the Hollywood Edge sound effects library, it is so they can claim the rights of your work in the digital environment. This is important even if you don't post your work on Youtube for income because this is how the digital rights environment is going to operate in the future. Any new suggestions for a sound effects library I can use in the future without them taking my income?
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>>36
That's fucking hilarious.

>>36
Obviously the correct approach in the Land of the Free is to sue the shit out of the copyright trolls. And I'm not being facetious here: the dude should take them to the small claims court or watsname, it allows for claims below $5000.

Also, contact the EFF, but they might not be receptive to being used in a petite bourgeois vs medium-sized bourgeois fight.

Also, maybe contact an actual copyright lawyer, who might work pro bono at least as far examining his case goes. Because selling someone the rights to stuff, then harming their business reeks of punitive damages far exceeding the actual damages.

Take a page from the Dolan Trump's book ("The Art of the Deal") -- don't fight the system, use it. Contrary to what various 14yo or mentally retarded anarchists believe, the system is supposed to do good for the humankind, and it learns from you using it for good.

>>38
You forgot that YouTube is Google's domain, so Google can enforce any rules it wants there. I'm sure Google's Terms of Service include clause about giving Google the rights to your work. And Google doesn't want to fight with Sound Ideas for little gain.