{"id":2318,"date":"2026-11-12T13:18:53","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T04:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/?p=2318"},"modified":"2026-11-12T13:18:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T04:18:53","slug":"rampant-copyright-infringement-has-become-the-norm-in-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/?p=2318","title":{"rendered":"Rampant copyright Infringement has become the norm in social media."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you <em>copy<\/em> an image and <em>post<\/em> it on Facebook or other social media platforms but you don\u2019t have permission from the copyright owner to do so, you\u2019re committing copyright infringement. Permission to republish or repost a copy of something is not granted by the contact being publicly downloadable. This is something that is conveniently misconstrued by many people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you <em>share<\/em> an image that was posted by a person who didn\u2019t have permission to post it, you are still committing copyright infringement, albeit directly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This kind of unlawful behavior is rampant on social media. Part of the problem is that the owners of social media platforms not only profit from the engagement that people evoke when they post images, but they also encourage the posting of images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They appeared to welcome DMCA notices to take down copyright material, but those notices can only be issued by the owners of copyright material or their legal representatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you post an image in a group or your private friends or even in public on a social media platform without permission to do so, you\u2019re guilty of the same infringement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But there will not be serious legal consequences because it is unlikely to be detected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This applies particularly to the turds who post such images and videos to gain ad income from it, but such posting of images on your own social media page is copyright infringement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Copyright infringement that goes undetected is still a copyright infringement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you copy an image and post it on Facebook or other social media platforms but you don\u2019t have permission from the copyright owner to do so, you\u2019re committing copyright infringement. Permission to republish or repost a copy of something is not granted by the contact being publicly downloadable. This is something that is conveniently &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/?p=2318\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rampant copyright Infringement has become the norm in social media.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[131,64],"class_list":["post-2318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-and-social-media","tag-copyright","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2320,"href":"http:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions\/2320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}