this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2025
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If you just want to be left alone you probably shouldn't @ one of the fighting parties
I am not going to just swallow their bullying but will keep speaking my mind on it, I want to have some agency for the content I post. They spoil my fediverse experience. It's not like they'd stop if I'd just shut up.
ok... what is the TLDR?
They reupload your original photos to different communities?
Yes. With the stated goal to reduce the already measly interaction I get posting niche stuff because I post it to the 'wrong' community.
You own the copyright on the photos? Why not copyright strike/claim/dmca the reuploading as unauthorized?
They have full support of the mod of that community (threelonmusketeers), who knows very well that i don't want my content to be reposted there, as they downvote all my complaints about it.
Sopuli admins see no problem with what they're doing and I also chatted with @mrkaplan@lemmy.world and he also thinks it's fine.
do you own the copyright?
Well I guess, these are my photos and videos.
Then you can use the copyright system against people reuploading your content without authorization.
The best outcome seems to be they stop posting your copyrighted content, and that is exactly what the very overburdened arm of copyright is designed to do. Since they wont listen to your requests to not upload copyrighted material they don't leave you much choice.
sopuli.xyz says its based in Finland and the country does have robust legal system including normalized notification of infringement practices. https://www.cupore.fi/wp-content/uploads/migrated-assets/tiedostot/pilottitutkimusraportit/pilotreportds9_sanctionsandremediesforcopyrightinfringement.pdf Take a look at page 19 - Section H
the next step would be to make the owners of sopuli.xyz officially aware of the copyright infringement hosted by their community
second escalation would be to file a DMCA request with their US based domain name provider, and to their german hoster
Basically keep escalating in written form so nobody can claim ignorance
Thank you very much for the pointers, I will look into it when I get home and find the time. But seriously fuck @threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works for even making me consider this.
Dude, getting emotional and aggressive does not project strength from your position, it puts people against you. be dispassionate, be factual
Start putting watermark copyright notices on your photos.