Hopefully your comment isn’t taken down. I lost three posts because I posted short excerpts summarizing the post, and because they were removed I couldn’t go back to edit them to fix them. So now I don’t try to offer any tldr’s any longer.
Why do lemmy world’s admins even run the damn site if they don’t have the slightest idea how the laws around hosting work? There is literally no issue here and if there was it would be solved by them THEN taking down the post. At this point it almost seems suspicious that this group of milquetoast liberals afraid of their own shadows managed to have the largest lemmy instance, for seemingly no good reason.
Hopefully your comment isn’t taken down. I lost three posts because I posted short excerpts summarizing the post, and because they were removed I couldn’t go back to edit them to fix them. So now I don’t try to offer any tldr’s any longer.
Two paragraphs should be fine, it’s when you start quoting large blocks that it’s problematic.
Think of it like this:
If the article is 4 paragraphs, and you quote 3 of them, that’s not really fair use.
If the article is 30 paragraphs and you quote 3 of them to make the point, that’s fine. :)
Keep it less than, say, 30% of the original article and you should generally be safe. More than 50%? Not so much.
Pulling those numbers out of a hat, it’s not a defined rule. ;)
I quoted two or three paragraphs out more than a dozen, just enough to establish the context, and got removed.
So I’m done posting anything but the link and headline.
If in doubt, leave it out. :) Safest assumption.
That’s what I’m doing, yes.
ahhh bummer. i didnt realize the reddit mod nazis had migrated also
This is apparently from the admins, so that the site doesn’t get DCMA takedowns that they can’t afford to fight.
ahhh, i see. double bummer
Why do lemmy world’s admins even run the damn site if they don’t have the slightest idea how the laws around hosting work? There is literally no issue here and if there was it would be solved by them THEN taking down the post. At this point it almost seems suspicious that this group of milquetoast liberals afraid of their own shadows managed to have the largest lemmy instance, for seemingly no good reason.
Set up your own instance and show them how it’s done. They probably have better things to do to respond to DMCA requests
They would easily spend more time pro-actively removing multiple comments than they would one dcma requested comment.
Presumably, they ask the mods to do that to avoid the DMCA shenanigans.
Would be good if it was clarified in the community rules, though.
Ah so they’re off sourcing the work to the mods.
Still it’s a system that creates more work than is actually needed.