Posts Tagged ‘Fark’

Update: Fark’s Copyright Policy

By Jonathan Bailey • May 8th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues, News

Following the controversy over its copyright policy last week, Fark has changed the wording of its policy to correct the errors in the first draft.
The new policy, which is much longer than the first, no longer attempts to claim copyright ownership of the submissions, but rather, says the following regarding works submitted to the site: [...]



The DMCA on Social News Sites

By Jonathan Bailey • May 1st, 2007 • Category: Articles, DMCA, DMCA Seven, Legal Issues, Personal Experiences

Previously, I reported about how plagiarized content can create unique challeges on social news sites such as Digg and Reddit.
The article detailed a case involving the site Celebrity Hack, a celebrity gossip blog. The site had one of its articles, entitled “37 Famously Stupid Celebrity Quotes” submitted to Digg only to be buried for unknown [...]



Farked, BoingBoinged and More

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 27th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Housekeeping

Yesterday was a very eventful day for this site. The article about Fark’s Copyright Policy made an appearance on the front page of Fark.com. Shortly after that, it was featured as an update to the BoingBoing article on the subject and even appeared on Wired.com’s Epicenter Blog.
Needless to say, traffic was extremely high yesterday and [...]



The Fark Licensing Controversy

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 26th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues, News

Story Updated (See Below) - Digg Users: Digg HereĀ 
Ryan McGinnis of Backing Winds posted an article detailing copyright policy of news aggregator Fark, which just underwent a major redesign.
According to McGinnis, when the site was redesigned a new legal policy was introduced one that lays claim to the copyright of all works posted to Fark.
Though [...]